Sloan Ph.D. Program

Established in 1960, MIT Sloan’s Ph.D. program is a highly selective yet internationally diverse program that trains top candidates for roles in academia and business.

Rigorous, discipline-based research is the hallmark of the MIT Sloan Ph.D. Program. The program is committed to educating scholars who will lead in their fields of research -- those with outstanding intellectual skills who will carry forward productive research on the complex organizational, financial, and technological issues that characterize an increasingly competitive and challenging business world.

Ph.D. studies at MIT Sloan are intense and individual in nature, demanding a great deal of time, initiative, and discipline from every candidate. But the rewards of such rigor are tremendous: MIT Sloan Ph.D. graduates go on to teach at the world's most prestigious universities.

The Ph.D. Program is organized into three areas, each containing several research concentrations. There are a total of ten primary research concentrations to select from when applying. Within the Behavioral & Policy Sciences group (BPS), five secondary research concentrations are offered for applicants whose interests cut across more than one BPS concentration.

(1) Management Science
(*) Information Technologies
(*) Marketing
(*) Operations Management
(*) System Dynamics

(2) Behavioral & Policy Sciences
-- primary and/or secondary concentrations:
(*) Economic Sociology
(*) Institute for Work & Employment Research
(*) Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Strategic Management
(*) Organization Studies
-- secondary concentration only:
(*) Global Economics & Management

(3) Economics, Finance & Accounting
(*) Finance
(*) Accounting & Control

The Ph.D. program is integral to the research of MIT Sloan's world-class faculty. With a reputation as risk-takers who are unafraid to embrace the unconventional, they are engaged in exciting disciplinary and interdisciplinary research that often includes PhD students as key team members.

Research centers across MIT Sloan and MIT provide a rich setting for collaboration and exploration. In addition to exposure to the faculty, Ph.D. students also learn from one another in a creative, supportive research community.