About the PhD Program

Rigorous

Our PhD program is rigorous and challenging, yet it is also small and collegial, as students develop close apprenticeship relationships with individual faculty members. Faculty are productive scholars and enthusiastic mentors. We expect our 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.

Average time to degree is just more than four and a half years. During this time, our students must fulfill the following requirements:

Two years of course work in major, research methods, and related subjects
Two independent research papers
Comprehensive exam
Dissertation
Satisfactory performance as a research and teaching assistant
Success as a classroom teacher.

Collegial

While demanding, our program also is small and supportive.

On average, two students per discipline (about eight to ten students in total) enter the program each year. They join a close-knit professional and social community of thirty to forty students, forging valuable working relationships with one another and entering into collaborative apprenticeships with individual faculty members, who will serve as their mentors for many years to come.

All incoming Lundquist College of Business PhD students receive financial support for four years in the form of graduate employment (GE), contingent on making satisfactory progress. Students may apply for a fifth year. Possible GE assignments include teaching assistant, research assistant, and/or instructor. PhD students are required to teach four courses during their tenure. A GE appointment includes

Full tuition waiver
Waiver of most fees
Generous monthly stipend
Health insurance
Travel support
Office space and use of a computer.

Students are also guaranteed three years of summer support, assuming normal progress.

Successful

Training in Effective Teaching

Developing effective teaching skills is a significant part of the PhD program and increasingly important in attracting offers in the academic job market. Students participate in teacher training activities conducted by the Lundquist College and by the university's Teaching Effectiveness Program. In addition, students are encouraged to observe classes taught by faculty, to serve as teaching assistants, and to use the resources available in the university's Teaching Effectiveness Program. Students teach four undergraduate courses over the second, third and fourth years of the program.

Over the past ten years, all of our graduates without exception have found employment in academia, ranging from teaching colleges to research-intensive universities, both in the United States and abroad.

Placements of Recent PhD Graduates

Boise State University
Clemson University
Drexel University
Erasmus University, Netherlands
Louisiana State University
Loyola Marymount University
Melbourne Business School (Australia)
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Montana State University
Oregon State University
Rutgers University, Camden
Shanghai International Studies University
Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance

Temple University
University of Houston
University of Montana
University of New Hampshire
University of Portland
University of Puget Sound
University of Richmond
University of Texas at El Paso
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
University of Wyoming
Western Michigan University
Western Washington University
Virginia Polytechnic University

Lundquist College of Business

One of 185 programs—just 1.5 percent of the world's business schools—fully accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in both business and accounting.
PhD program: 30-40 students
MBA program: about 130 students
MAcc program: about 30 students.
MS in Finance program: about 30 students
Undergraduate program: about 4,000 students

University of Oregon

22,980 students (Fall 2018)
3,629 graduate students (Fall 2018)
Founded 1876

Located in Eugene, Oregon (150,000 population), 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 institutions selected for membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU).

About the PhD Program

Demographics

Faculty Profile

Characteristics of Enrolled PhD Students (Fall 2018)

Lundquist College of Business

University of Oregon