PHD Programs in Switzerland 2025

The Rushford Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) is a 180 ECTS credits doctoral program designed to equip business students, managers, practitioners, and leaders with high-level knowledge, research, and analytical skills so that they can apply these personal and professional attributes to solve the most complex business problems. In contrast to programs at the master level, the DBA program focuses on the application of theory to real-world business challenges.

The Rushford Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) is a 180 ECTS credits doctoral program designed to equip business students, managers, practitioners, and leaders with high-level knowledge, research, and analytical skills so that they can apply these personal and professional attributes to solve the most complex business problems. In contrast to programs at the master level, the DBA program focuses on the application of theory to real-world business challenges.

The Rushford Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) is a 180 ECTS credits doctoral program designed to equip business students, managers, practitioners, and leaders with high-level knowledge, research, and analytical skills so that they can apply these personal and professional attributes to solve the most complex business problems. In contrast to programs at the master level, the DBA program focuses on the application of theory to real-world business challenges. The Rushford DBA in Operational Management program focuses on applied research so that executives, managers, and practitioners can start applying what they learn in the program in their organizations in real-time. We focus on ensuring that our students develop a very high level of expertise in all areas of business and Operational Management. The coursework will also focus on the enhancement of research skills, writing skills, presentation skills, critical and analytical thinking skills, and change management skills.

The Rushford Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) is a 180 ECTS credits doctoral program designed to equip business students, managers, practitioners, and leaders with high-level knowledge, research, and analytical skills so that they can apply these personal and professional attributes to solve the most complex business problems. In contrast to programs at the master level, the DBA program focuses on the application of theory to real-world business challenges.

The doctoral program in Digital Studies, funded by swiss universities for the period 2017-2020, was created at the University of Lausanne in January 2017. From its first year of existence, this program brought together more than sixty doctoral students interested in digital studies. The doctoral program in Digital Studies offers doctoral students from the universities of Lausanne, Geneva, Friborg, Neuchâtel, Basel, Bern, and EPFL a space for reflection and sharing around the challenges of digital cultures, societies, and humanities. Designed as an extension of the Interfaculty Master in Digital Humanities at UNIL, this doctoral program is resolutely interdisciplinary, offering to develop a transversal perspective on the challenges of digitization in the context of the human and social sciences.

The Swiss Finance Institute Ph.D. in Finance is one of the largest and most competitive programs in the world The program promotes the pursuit of academic excellence by providing an intellectual environment and a curriculum comparable with the top Ph.D. programs in the world. The Ph.D. program operates at the three Swiss Finance Institute campuses: Léman(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the University of Geneva, and the University of Lausanne), Lugano (Università della Svizzera italiana), and Zurich (the University of Zurich).

EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP The program provides a platform that enables participants to develop as effective leaders and coaches by examining their personal skills, beliefs, and value-sets as they relate to those with whom they interact. Participants will develop insight and skills to mature into more effective leaders and managers. Insight into managerial and leadership effectiveness increasingly points to emotional intelligence and congruence. Knowing the Self enables leaders to better know their employees and effectively lead. The program is uniquely designed for the working professional who wishes to immediately apply the knowledge of the program back to their working environment. APPLIED & PRACTICAL The program employs a blended learning methodology that includes one-to-one coaching, practical workplace application, applied leadership scholarship, and individual reflection. Success in the program is defined as higher performance as a leader and coach in the real world of the participant's existing workplace. The program covers material considered to be essential to applied leadership. Contemporary themes covered include Ethics & CSR, Leadership, Change, Sustainability, Congruency, Personnel Psychology, and Spirituality. You may download the program schematic here. LEADERSHIP CAPACITY BUILDING Leadership is the key to developing a resilient organization. Through exceptional teaching and real-world applications, the DOAL program develops managers ready to take a leadership role within their organizations.

The mission of the Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) degree is to prepare scholars and professionals to meet the needs of the fast changing business world, develop critical thinking skills necessary to design and implement advanced business practices aimed at tackling the challenges of a complex and global economy, to further applied research with strong business impact, to devise new business practices and models.