Why Choose Florida?

What makes the University of Florida a great place to earn your Ph.D. in Management? Three factors are particularly important: the productivity of our faculty, our student-focused climate, and the cutting edge training that students receive.

Faculty Productivity

When it comes to gaining research skills, Ph.D. students learn by doing. Having a productive faculty gives students more opportunities to get involved in projects and more opportunities to build their research portfolio. A joint study by Texas A&M University and the University of Florida shows that our faculty has published 39 articles in top Management journals from 2004 to 2008. Given the size of our faculty (5 micro, 4 macro), those numbers rank Florida as the most productive faculty in the country.

Productivity Study

Student Focus

Having a productive faculty only benefits Ph.D. students when students are included in that productivity. At Florida, students are encouraged to join research projects from day one. As they progress in the program, their responsibilities deepen to the point where they can become the ones who suggest research topics, craft manuscripts, and manage the review process. Moreover, students are not merely expected to contribute to the existing research streams of the faculty. Instead, the faculty are willing to explore new and emerging areas that are of interest to Ph.D. students.

Cutting-Edge Training

Of course, the education itself is also a core component of any Ph.D. program. At Florida, Ph.D. coursework occurs during the first two years of the program. It includes 9 semester and half-semester departmental seminars, covering research methods, micro content areas, and macro content areas.

MAN 7108	Research Methods in Management	Colquitt
MAN 7109	Motivation and Attitudes	Judge
MAN 7267	Groups and Teams	LePine
MAN 6930	Affect and Cognition	Erez
MAN 7328	Human Resource Staffing	Kammeyer-Mueller
MAN 7779	Process of Strategic Management	Shen
MAN 7778	Content of Strategic Management	Paruchuri
MAN 7207	Foundations of Organization Theory	Tosi
MAN 7208	Contemporary Organization Theory	Lee

Coursework also includes five statistics classes outside the department, with the specific set tailored to students' backgrounds and interests. Some of the options for those classes include:

STA 6126	Statistics I
STA 6127	Statistics II
EDF 7405	Regression
EDF 7412	Structural Equation Modeling
EDF 7474	Hierarchical Linear Modeling
HSA 6930	Social Networks
AEB 6571	Econometrics I
AEB 6572	Econometrics II