Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Information Technology
Online, Malawi
PhD
DURATION
6 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
About: The PhD in Information Technology with Unicaf and partner universities trains you for independent doctoral research. It's a supervised, self-directed programme of online modules and a dissertation that must make an original contribution. You'll defend your thesis in a viva voce and develop research methods and scholarly writing. Research fields include Marketing, IT, Education, Business and Accounting. Unicaf offers scholarships to eligible candidates.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work in academia, R&D, data science, IT management, consultancy or policy analysis. Roles may include research scientist, senior analyst, IT director and university faculty. You can pursue postdoctoral research and innovation roles.
The goal of the PhD programme is to prepare the next generation of leading researchers.
The PhD is a programme of independent, self-directed academic research degree, supported by a team of supervisors that makes an original contribution to knowledge written up in a publishable dissertation. The PhD programme also supports the development of research and generic skills to equip you to operate successfully as a professional researcher in any setting. The essential requirement of a PhD is the creation of new knowledge. Being a researcher means developing new ideas and improving understanding through the creation of new knowledge. Your research will inevitably build to some degree on the work and ideas of others, but as a research student, you are expected to make an original contribution to knowledge in your discipline.
Each PhD student must take a number of online modules and also complete a dissertation. Students must defend their dissertation in a “viva voce” (oral) examination. The viva voce examination is an intense and challenging experience, but we offer workshops and mock examinations to help our research students prepare and almost all research students who reach this stage go on to successfully complete their degree.
Students can engage in research in one of the following fields of study:
- Marketing Management
- Information and Technology
- Education
- Business Administration
- Accounting and Finance
Foundation Courses
- Induction Module
Core Units
- Research Methods
- Current Issues in Management Research
- Leadership
- Web-based Information Systems Development
- PhD Information and Technology Comprehensive Examination
- PhD Information and Technology Dissertation (Part 1)
- PhD Information and Technology Dissertation (Part 2)
- PhD Information and Technology Dissertation (Part 3)
- PhD Information and Technology Dissertation (Part 4)
- PhD Information and Technology Doctoral Dissertation Examination