Kaunas University of Technology
PhD in Management
Kaunas, Lithuania
PhD
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2027
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The PhD in Management at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) offers a double degree with the University of Bologna, Italy. It examines management challenges from globalization, technological change, environmental and social trends, and financial crises. Research spans public administration, knowledge and awareness management, intellectual capital, marketing and business (industrial) systems. Students access lectures by foreign lecturers and internships at highest-level foreign scientific research centers. The programme aims to develop qualified, responsible researchers who generate new knowledge for management science.
Career Outcomes: Graduates pursue roles in academia and industry: academic researcher, university lecturer, management consultant, policy analyst, R&D manager, knowledge or intellectual capital manager and public sector leader. The PhD supports research, teaching and leadership.
Double degree with the University of Bologna, Italy.
Globalisation, technological changes, environmental problems, social and political trends, and the financial crisis of the last decade have brought a range of challenges for management science. KTU doctoral studies in Management analyse relevant and complex problems of management; the scientists of this field in Lithuania started thesis research in such areas as public administration, knowledge and awareness management, intellectual capital management, marketing and business (industrial) systems. Topics of the dissertation research of doctoral studies are closely related to fundamental and applied research conducted by the university’s scientists. Doctoral students of the management field have the possibility to attend the lectures by experienced foreign lecturers and complete internships at the highest level foreign scientific research centres.
The management program aims to develop qualified, responsible and promising researchers able to generate new knowledge contributing to management science development.
Study program modules
Main modules
- Contemporary Management Theories and Concepts
- Designing a Ph.D. Research Project
Elective modules
- Inovations and Global Knowledge-Economy
- Statistical Methods in Social Sciences
Core skills modules
- Academic and Technical Research Writing
- Design Thinking in Research
- Digital Support and Tools for Research Writing and Publication
- Research Data Management
- Research Ethics
- Research Project grant Management
- Science Communication for the Public
- Systematic Literature Review
Doctor of Science
Students admitted to state-funded places of doctoral studies receive a monthy scholarship. PhD students may receive additional funding for their scientific activies, excellent results of studies and scientific research or for participation in the international scientific conferences, seminars, and science competitions.
This program is delivered in both English and Lithuanian.