Ph.D.

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Gain the confidence you need to create groundbreaking work. Conduct research, educate others, and push the business world forward with our full-time, five-year program. The path to your Ph.D. starts here.

“I was attracted to Scheller's great research environment. At Scheller, you will experience many different roles and gain a lot from those roles.”

– Zhanfei Lei
Ph.D. '19 Assistant Professor of Operations & Information Management, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

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Top-Ranked Academics

Get the education you need to break new ground by immersing yourself in our top-ranked academic research areas.

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Technology & Innovation Hub

Study in Tech Square, an area with the highest density of start-ups, corporate innovators, and academic researchers in the entire southeastern U.S.

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Cutting-Edge Concentrations

Be empowered to take on the newest trends and biggest challenges in business by focusing on one of our seven main areas of study.

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Graduation Year	Name	Academic Area	Initial Placement
Summer 2024	Zeya Wang	Operations Management	University of Dayton
Summer 2024	Peina Liu	Accounting	Washington State University
Summer 2024	Yafei Zhang	Finance	University of Central Florida
Spring 2024	Li Ding	Operations Management	Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Spring 2024	Wendi Du	Finance	University of South Carolina
Summer 2024	Chunghan Kang	Information Technology Management	Hong Kong University
Spring 2024	Yufei Zhong	Organizational Behavior	University of Arizona
Fall 2023	Yuly Hong	Marketing	NEOMA Business School (France)
Fall 2023	Jiani Zhu	Organizational Behavior	Industry - Amazon (Pending)
Summer 2023	Na Kyong Hyun	Marketing	University of Cincinnati
Summer 2023	Swanand Kulkarni	Operations Management	Dartmouth University (Denmark) (Post-Doc)
Summer 2023	Jiayu Yao	Information Technology Management	Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Summer 2023	Shibo Zhou	Strategy and Innovation	Copenhagen Business School (Post-Doc)
Spring 2023	Christopher Green	Operations Management	United States Army - Battalion Commander
Spring 2023	Hao Hu	Information Technology Management	Industry - Bloomberg
Spring 2023	Baridhi Malakar	Finance	Industry - Western Alliance Bank
Spring 2023	Leonard Ortega Moncada	Strategy and Innovation	Industry - Entity Risk
Spring 2023	Mary Eve Spirou	Organizational Behavior	University of Georgia
Summer 2022	Qing Gong	Organizational Behavior	Boise State University
Summer 2022	Elizabeth Han	Information Technology Management	McGill University (Canada)
Summer 2022	Zhiying Hu	Marketing	Industry
Summer 2022	Min Young Lee	Organizational Behavior	University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Post-Doc)
Summer 2022	Anish Menon	Accounting	Prairie View A&M University
Summer 2022	Katsiaryna Siaminonava	Information Technology Management	Arizona State University
Summer 2022	Suyun Wu	Accounting	University of Texas at El Paso
Spring 2022	Wenqian Hu	Accounting	University of Waterloo (Canada)
Summer 2021	Param Pal Singh Chhabra	Operations Management	University of Alberta (Canada)
Summer 2021	Kathryn Holmstrom	Accounting	Iowa State University
Summer 2021	Yunyoung Hur	Information Technology Management	George Mason University
Summer 2021	Jonathan Kugal	Accounting	Christopher Newport University
Summer 2021	Shubhobrata Palit	Operations Management	ESADE Business School (Spain)
Spring 2021	Deborah Abrams	Marketing	Industry - Bain & Company
Spring 2021	Peter Simasek	Finance	Industry
Summer 2020	Cheng He	Marketing	University of Wisconsin - Madison
Summer 2020	Toschia Hogan	Organizational Behavior	Saint Louis University
Summer 2020	Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh	Operations Management	Unviersity of Auckland (New Zealand)
Summer 2020	Nikhkil Paradkar	Finance	University of Georgia
Summer 2020	Fengrong Wei	Finance	University of West Georgia
Spring 2020	Maria Roche	Strategy and Innovation	Harvard University
Spring 2020	Jordan Samet	Accounting	University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Fall 2019	Yifeng "Felix" Fan	Organizational Behavior	Fairfield University
Fall 2019	Dionne Nickerson	Marketing	Indiana University - Bloomington
Summer 2019	Patricia Angle	Information Technology Management	Florida Gulf Coast University
Summer 2019	Amy Brienthal	Organizational Behavior	Agnes Scott College
Summer 2019	Dana Harari Hamam	Organizational Behavior	University of Pennsylvania (Post-Doc)
Summer 2019	Zhanfei Lei	Information Technology Management	University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Summer 2019	Congshan Li	Strategy and Innovation	Xiamen University (China)
Summer 2019	Siman Li	Accounting	Purdue University - Northwest
Summer 2019	Vijay Venkataraman	Strategy and Innovation	Indian Institute of Management (India)
Summer 2019	Hongchang Wang	Information Technology Management	University of Texas - Dallas
Summer 2019	Linghang Zeng	Finance	Babson University
Summer 2018	Priyank Arora	Operations Management	University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Summer 2018	Laurens Bujold-Steed	Organizational Behavior	Miami University - Cincinnati
Summer 2018	Myoung-Jin Chae	Marketing	Linghang University (Hong Kong)
Summer 2018	Youngmin Choi	Finance	City University of New York - Baruch College
Summer 2018	Jaeseok Lee	Operations Management	University of Auckland (New Zealand)
Summer 2018	Kathik Nattami	Information Technology Management	Southern Methodist University
Summer 2018	Minho Wang	Finance	Florida International University
Summer 2018	Di Yang	Accounting	University of New South Wales (Australia)
Summer 2018	Teng Zhang	Finance	University of Wyoming
Summer 2017	Wayne Fu	Operations Management	University of Michigan - Dearborn
Summer 2017	Mayank Jaiswal	Strategy and Innovation	Rider University
Summer 2017	Sejin Keem	Organizational Behavior	Portland State University
Summer 2017	Chang Liu	Finance	Industry - Mitsui Asset Management
Summer 2017	Peng Xie	Information Technology Management	California State University - East Bay
Summer 2016	Aditi Bajaj	Marketing	Industry - Greenberg Strategy
Summer 2016	Ximin (Natalie) Huang	Operations Management	University of Minnesota
Summer 2016	Joseph Liu	Organizational Behavior	California State University - Chico
Spring 2016	Ganduri Rohan	Finance	Emory University
Summer 2015	Marcus Bellamy	Operations Management	Boston University
Summer 2015	Melissa Carlisle	Accounting	Case Western Reserve
Summer 2015	Michael Hair	Marketing	Southern Illinois University
Summer 2015	Joseph Johnson	Accounting	University of Central Florida
Summer 2015	Gerald Lemoine	Organizational Behavior	State University of New York at Buffalo
Summer 2015	Briana Sell	Strategy and Innovation	Mercer University
Summer 2015	Narenda Singh	Operations Management	Indian School of Business - Mohali (India)
Summer 2015	Hemang Subramanian	Information Technology Management	Florida International University
Summer 2015	Jiao Xu	Information Technology Management	University of Wisconsin - Madison
Spring 2015	Michael Frutiger	Information Technology Management	Arizona State University
Spring 2015	Kerry Gibson	Organizational Behavior	Babson University
Spring 2015	Gamze Koseoglu	Organizational Behavior	University of Melbourne (Australia)
Spring 2015	Daniel Sheehan	Marketing	University of Kentucky