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The first step to academic excellence. Fully funded, your rigorous research shapes future business.
Your first step to academic excellence
At London Business School, developing and educating the next generation of scholars is central to our overall research activities and identity and we are committed to training individuals to become scholars and thought leaders. Research-oriented business schools offer an exciting and well-resourced environment in which to conduct interdisciplinary research. Our PhD programme leverages the School’s acclaimed research faculty, while providing generous funding and infrastructural support. PhD students work closely with faculty on cutting-edge research spanning a broad range of disciplines and topics. Through rigorous coursework as well as supervised, joint, and independent research, our students are equipped to work and thrive at the frontiers of knowledge in their chosen field.
Your time at London Business School will be filled with intellectual challenges in a collaborative environment. With faculty and fellow students, you will exchange and debate ideas and methods, sharpen your critical faculties, and learn the skills to be a successful scholar. Quality of thought is a public good here at London Business School, with improvements in your own thinking generating a positive spill-over to the entire community of students and faculty. Each year, our graduates move on to intellectually rewarding careers in major business schools, universities, and research institutions around the world. Their work has a profound impact on the thoughts and actions of academics, business leaders and policy makers.
My colleagues and I look forward to welcoming you to the community of scholars at the London Business School.
Niro Sivanathan, PhD Chair
To educate outstanding scholars who will be sought after at leading business schools, universities and other research institutions.
Research-oriented business schools offer some of the most exciting and well-resourced environments in which to conduct interdisciplinary social science.
Our PhD programme leverages the School’s acclaimed research faculty, provides generous funding and infrastructural support.
Our full-time PhD students receive thorough and sophisticated training in the latest research methods, equipping them for productive academic careers.
Students are required to take a range of courses. These include Programme Core Courses, Specialised Courses and Elective Courses. Specialised Courses are compulsory for the for the admitted subject area. Elective courses are chosen from the Specialised Courses in other subject areas.
You will also have the option to take elective courses in London School of Economics (LSE) and University College of London (UCL).
All students offered a place on the PhD programme receive full funding which includes a tax-free stipend for five years and a tuition fee waiver (subject to satisfactory academic progress). The annual stipend rate from September 2025 is £30,623 and it is expected to increase over the following two years, as follows:
September 2026 - £32,154.
September 2027 - £33,762.
2026/27 - £32,154
2027/28 - £33,762
Each year our graduates move on to intellectually rewarding careers in major business schools and research institutes around the world.
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Discuss your current research with students from leading business schools in North America and Europe at this exclusive conference hosted annually by London Business School.
READ MOREThe deadline for applications is 1 December 2024 for entry into the programme in September of the following year.
PhD in Management Science and Operations
PhD in Organisational Behaviour
PhD in Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Please contact us to learn more about the programme
