Good business starts with great customer service.
Great educations do, as well.
The Doctor of Business Administration program at St. Ambrose is built around the same student-focused experience DBA Program Director Monica Forret, '88 PhD, so appreciated as an SAU undergraduate student.
"The key to my education here was the level of faculty-to-student interaction," she said. "Students are not a number here, and we are here to assist and help them through the process."
Successful professionals and educators gravitate to the rigor-intensive DBA program because faculty members strive to be available and accommodating.
Support starts with flexibility in building degree completion schedules around work and life demands. It extends to special topics courses built around the varied challenges students experience in their own organizations.
It includes a dissertation design course that works with students in multiple stages to ensure they are getting the most out of their research and writing experience. The support even extends beyond commencement, as SAU professors help students present their research findings at prestigious conferences or get their dissertations published in journals.
Launched in 1998, the SAU DBA program was among the first in the country built to accommodate working adults interested in obtaining a doctorate without interrupting their careers for full-time studies.
Proof that this customer-friendly model is working can be found in the program's No. 9 ranking among all US DBA programs, as announced earlier this year by the collegechoice.net website. The ranking reflected student and alumni feedback regarding program quality, reputation, affordability, value, and satisfaction.
"Our students will tell you the DBA changes how they think," Forret said. "It gives them an edge in a competitive market."
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