Ph.D. Program

Program Goals 

The doctoral program at the University of Oregon seeks to educate students for highly specialized careers in academé.  The overall objective of the Ph.D. Program is to develop scholars who will be productive researchers and effective teachers in their chosen fields at leading colleges and universities throughout the world.  Students must demonstrate the ability to create knowledge through original research in their areas of specialization. 

While the Ph.D. program is rigorous and challenging, it is also small and collegial, enabling a close apprenticeship relationship with individual faculty members.  Faculty are productive scholars and enthusiastic mentors.  Our goals are for students to:

  • Acquire advanced knowledge relevant to their areas of specialization.
  • Develop advanced academic research skills for their areas of specialization.
  • Be well prepared for the instructional responsibilities of higher education.
  • Present at and attend academic conferences.
  • Produce quality, co-authored scholarly papers with faculty.
  • Obtain employment in academic settings upon graduation.
  • About two students per discipline or about eight to ten total students enter the program each year.  Students work closely with their fellow Ph.D. students and develop valuable working relationships with one another and with the faculty that continue throughout their professional careers.  

    Program requirements

  • Full-time residence
  • One or more independent research papers
  • Comprehensive exam
  • Thesis
  • Approximately two years of course work
  • Satisfactory performance as a research and teaching assistant
  • Satisfactory performance as a classroom teacher
  • Additional per department requirements
  • Areas of concentration and faculty coordinators

    Accounting - Professor Steve Matsunaga, stevem@uoregon.edu
    Decision Sciences - Professor Tolga Aydinliyim, tolga@uoregon.edu
    Finance - Professor Diane Del Guercio, dianedg@uoregon.edu
    Management - Professor Jennifer Howard-Grenville, jhg@uoregon.edu
                          - Professor Anne Parmigiani, annepa@uoregon.edu
    Marketing
    - Professor Bob Madrigal, rmadriga@uoregon.edu

    Demographics

    Faculty profile
    40 full-time, tenure track faculty (10 women)
    Faculty members hold 10 positions of editor or associate editor for a leading academic journal
    Faculty members serve on 28 editorial boards of leading academic journals

    Characteristics of currently enrolled Ph.D. students
    34 students in residence
         14 international
         17 women
    Median age:  30
    Median GMAT:  680

    Placements of 2002 through 2009 Ph.D. graduates
    California State Bakersfield
    California State Fullerton
    Clemson University
    Drexel University
    Economics University of Indonesia
    Fordham University
    Gonzaga University
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    INSEAD
    Loyola College of Maryland
    Loyola Marymount University
    Montana State University
    National Economics University, Hanoi
    North Dakota State University
    Northwestern University
    State University of New York, Buffalo
    University of Arizona
    University of Denver
    University of Georgia
    University of Montana
    Universtiy of Massachusetts, Boston
    University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    University of New Hampshire
    University of Portland
    University of Puget Sound
    University of Redlands
    University of Richmond
    University of San Diego

    The Lundquist College of Business
    Located in the Lillis Business Complex, opened January 2004.
    Ph.D. program:  about 35 students.
    M.B.A. program:  about 110 students.
    Masters in Accounting program:  about 45 students.
    Undergraduate program:  about 3,200 students.

    The University of Oregon
    21,507 students (Fall 2008).
    2,796 graduate students (Fall 2008).
    Founded 1876.
    Located in Eugene, Oregon (150,000 population) at the southern-end of the beautiful Willamette Valley, a two-hour drive south of Portland, Oregon, a one-hour drive east from the Pacific Ocean, and a two-hour drive west from the Cascades Mountains.

    As a tier 1 university, the University of Oregon is one of only 62 public and private institutions selected for membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities.

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    UO in Chicago!

    The College of Business will be attending the DocNet and PhD Project recruiting fairs on November 18th and 19th. See you there!

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    Now accepting applications for Fall 2010!  Deadline is January 15, 2010.  

    Click here to apply

    Contact Us

    Inquiries
    Perri McGee, perrim@uoregon.edu

    Admissions
    Holly Phillips, hollyp@uoregon.edu

    Student Services 
    Jae Pudewell, jpudewel@uoregon.edu

    Program Director
    Diane Del Guercio, dianedg@uoregon.edu