THE OBJECTIVE
The objective of Tulane's Postdoctoral Bridge to Business Program is to provide qualified candidates holding non-business PhD’s with the classroom training in an area of specialty equivalent to that received by our full-time PhD students at Tulane.
RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM
The Tulane PhD curriculum is a 16 seminar or 48 semester credit hour program plus the dissertation. Thirty to thirty-six hours of the program are courses in the basic disciplines such as economics, mathematics and psychology. Which departments are involved depends on a student's specialization. Training in the basic disciplines is followed by four or five seminars in the business school focused on one specialty. Most often our full-time PhD students have an undergraduate/masters degree in mathematics, engineering, economics, psychology or sociology.
THE PLAN
To achieve our objective the one year post-doctoral program relies on the doctoral training of the non-business discipline and delivers the same seminars of specialized study as our full-time, residential program. And the seminars are taught by many of the same faculty. These seminars are offered in an intensive format to post-doctoral candidates. Each candidate is required to write and defend a research paper in their specialty. Thus, in one year graduates of our program will be prepared to conduct research and teach in AACSB accredited business schools world wide.
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