Executive Phd

Why an Executive PhD ?

The program offers a structure tailored to your professional life during the three-year period.

This 3-year program is designed for executives with more than 10-year experience , and drives you towards writing your thesis on a topic you wish to search in.

It requires a physical presence at the seminars once every 3 months, during one week in Paris, and online seminars once a month on Friday and Saturday during 18 months.

The Executive PhD at the Université Paris-Dauphine is a doctoral level program, based on the concept of “engaged research”, which is offered to working professionals in order to give them all the necessary research tools to theorize their professional experience and produce academic research of the highest quality.

Paris-Dauphine University’s Executive PhD aims at  encouraging communication between two worlds often distant, that of management research and that of the enterprise.

This merger allows you to:

• Give a scientific scale  to your “intuitions”
• Gain legitimacy /visibility in your professional sphere
• Access a global vision of an enterprise’s strategy ,its functional organizations including the latest projections in theoretic research within a scientific framework

Why Dauphine ?

The Université Paris-Dauphine has been one of the first universities in Europe to offer an Executive PhD, since 2008, and the first to do so in France. Today, this program is a growing success with an average annual graduating class of 16 participants. From 30 % to more than half are international students. The Executive PhD is a rich interactive experience that encourages international participation.

Message from the President

Dauphine is unique in the world of French universities. Dauphine is specialized in the Organization and Decision Sciences. Our mission is to educate future generations of executives, entrepreneurs, leaders, and scholars to be both experts in their fields and socially responsible, cultured, open-minded members of the community. We choose only the best candidates and they choose Dauphine. Our faculty is internationally esteemed and award-winning. We are respected for our academic excellence and recognized for the quality of our research in the organization and decision sciences. Our close ties to the business world ensure that Dauphine students are prepared for their professional future and that our programs and curriculum keep pace with an ever-evolving economic landscape. Dauphine is international and socially responsible In 2009, Dauphine became the first French university to obtain the EQUIS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development, in recognition of our academic excellence and committed global perspective. Equal opportunity and diversity are a top priority for recruiting students, faculty, and staff. We distinguish ourselves through our:

• Demanding admissions standards
• Proven and innovative teaching methods
• Rich and diversified curriculum
• Broad and coherent range of academic disciplines
• Close ties between teaching and research
• Programs designed with the real-world in mind
• Faculty that includes both academics and practicing professionals

Dauphine is an ideal place to study and to grow. We are constantly moving ahead. We have the resources to grow, to develop and to attract the best students and faculty in France and internationally, Dauphine is an exciting and stimulating place to be.