which DBA to choose: IE or SDA Bocconi or others?

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Posted Feb 26, 2023 10:59

Dear colleagues.

My name is Alex, chinese, I need your advice to help me to make a decision.

>Background:
12 years working experiences in a China Top Automotive Company as Director for project and product management for Connected car.
Now studying in IE business school for EMBA.
Planning in 2024 for a DBA as my next target.

I was writting my own book about prodcut desgin and development which will be published in 1 year.

>Question:
which business school is recommended? IE or SDA Bocconi or others?
(Busy in work in China, need to find a blended or on line program in Top Business School in Europe)

>Career planning:
working in Automotive in future in the company and part time teaching in University.

Many thanks.

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Duncan

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Posted Feb 26, 2023 11:18

I would really stop and ask why would you want a DBA when (1) a PhD is more respected and much cheaper, and more importantly (2) a qualification in university teaching, like the UoL certificate, is more useful than a PhD for your goal. https://www.london.ac.uk/courses/learning-teaching

In your position, I think a much faster route to your goal will be to take a teaching qualification, look for a tiny online teaching or tutoring job to get experience, and then start directly to research. You could start a write a journal article in the form of a literature review, by reading and writing summaries of the top journal articles on your topic, and then structuring them. The UoL has a great MOOC: https://www.coursera.org/learn/research-methods after that hire an academic in your field to mentor you on qualitative or quantitive research as you do the literature review.

If you want to move into academia full time, which journals you are published in matters much more than where you studied. The top scholars in your field will be distributed globally, and might not be at IE or Bocconi. In that case a PhD by published work would be much more credible.

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I would really stop and ask why would you want a DBA when (1) a PhD is more respected and much cheaper, and more importantly (2) a qualification in university teaching, like the UoL certificate, is more useful than a PhD for your goal. https://www.london.ac.uk/courses/learning-teaching <br><br>In your position, I think a much faster route to your goal will be to take a teaching qualification, look for a tiny online teaching or tutoring job to get experience, and then start directly to research. You could start a write a journal article in the form of a literature review, by reading and writing summaries of the top journal articles on your topic, and then structuring them. The UoL has a great MOOC: https://www.coursera.org/learn/research-methods after that hire an academic in your field to mentor you on qualitative or quantitive research as you do the literature review.<br><br>If you want to move into academia full time, which journals you are published in matters much more than where you studied. The top scholars in your field will be distributed globally, and might not be at IE or Bocconi. In that case a PhD by published work would be much more credible. 

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alex Jin

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Posted Feb 26, 2023 12:24

I would really stop and ask why would you want a DBA when (1) a PhD is more respected and much cheaper, and more importantly (2) a qualification in university teaching, like the UoL certificate, is more useful than a PhD for your goal. https://www.london.ac.uk/courses/learning-teaching

In your position, I think a much faster route to your goal will be to take a teaching qualification, look for a tiny online teaching or tutoring job to get experience, and then start directly to research. You could start a write a journal article in the form of a literature review, by reading and writing summaries of the top journal articles on your topic, and then structuring them. The UoL has a great MOOC: https://www.coursera.org/learn/research-methods after that hire an academic in your field to mentor you on qualitative or quantitive research as you do the literature review.

If you want to move into academia full time, which journals you are published in matters much more than where you studied. The top scholars in your field will be distributed globally, and might not be at IE or Bocconi. In that case a PhD by published work would be much more credible.

Dear Duncan, many thanks for your kind advice. And many thanks for quick reply.
Yes. I will check and read carefully about {Learning and Teaching in Higher Education}, this is very cool to train myself to be professional.
Yes, I knew, part time PhD is much better and much easily accetped than DBA. (at beginning I was searching PhD, no better results)
However, I do not have too much time investing for doctor/PhD degree and I do not think I can easily to finish PhD in a short time, considering about time+efforts+return.
In term of DBA, I guess, finishing a DBA doctor degree with less time and efforts compard with PhD, that is why I may think about DBA (but, I am also open to search Part time PhD, in acutal, it is hard, I am mostly working in China, and blended or on line PhD in Europe seems no chance.)

So in summary, I may want to ask for your advice about DBA: IE or SDA Bocconi?
Which one to choose? I double checked DBA in IE is an official degree. But SDA is open to me, I do not know.
(In future, I may plan to teach MBA student in China as part time hobby or part time job.)
Thanks again and nice weekend.
Best greeting from Alex

[quote]I would really stop and ask why would you want a DBA when (1) a PhD is more respected and much cheaper, and more importantly (2) a qualification in university teaching, like the UoL certificate, is more useful than a PhD for your goal. https://www.london.ac.uk/courses/learning-teaching <br><br>In your position, I think a much faster route to your goal will be to take a teaching qualification, look for a tiny online teaching or tutoring job to get experience, and then start directly to research. You could start a write a journal article in the form of a literature review, by reading and writing summaries of the top journal articles on your topic, and then structuring them. The UoL has a great MOOC: https://www.coursera.org/learn/research-methods after that hire an academic in your field to mentor you on qualitative or quantitive research as you do the literature review.<br><br>If you want to move into academia full time, which journals you are published in matters much more than where you studied. The top scholars in your field will be distributed globally, and might not be at IE or Bocconi. In that case a PhD by published work would be much more credible.  [/quote]  
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</div><br><br><div>Dear Duncan, </div><div>many thanks for your kind advice. And many thanks for quick reply.</div><br>Yes. I will check and read carefully about {Learning and Teaching in Higher Education}, this is very cool to train myself to be professional.<div><br><div>Yes, I knew, part time PhD is much better and much easily accetped than DBA. (at beginning I was searching PhD, no better results) </div><br><div>However, I do not have too much time investing for doctor/PhD degree and I do not think I can easily to finish PhD in a short time, considering about time+efforts+return.</div><br><div>In term of DBA, I guess, finishing a DBA doctor degree with less time and efforts compard with PhD, that is why I may think about DBA </div><div>(but, I am also open to search Part time PhD, in acutal, it is hard, I am mostly working in China, and blended or on line PhD in Europe seems no chance.)</div><br><br><div>So in summary,  I may want to ask for your advice about DBA: IE or SDA Bocconi?</div><br>Which one to choose?  I double checked DBA in IE is an official degree. But SDA is open to me, I do not know.<div>
</div></div>(In future, I may plan to teach MBA student in China as part time hobby or part time job.)<br>Thanks again and nice weekend.<br>Best greeting from Alex 

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Duncan

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Posted Feb 26, 2023 13:51

You don't need a PhD or a DBA unless you want to be a full time academic.

I suggest you speak to an academic about this.

You don't need a PhD or a DBA unless you want to be a full time academic. <br><br>I suggest you speak to an academic about this. <br><br><br>

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