The Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree program offered by the University of Phoenix provides learners with a professional master's degree a means of exploring their personal readiness to become senior leaders in management professions. Learners gain a mastery of business administration literature and demonstrate their competence by applying this knowledge to current business environments.

Graduates with a Doctorate in Business Administration will be able to:

• Identify, research alternatives, and solve business problems with the highest value-adding solutions.
• Perform systems-based, financially justified analysis and research for operations issues and technology-enabled opportunities in a global, market-based economy.
• Demonstrate business knowledge and be recognized as a business subject expert.
• Formulate and re-design industry rules and standards.

As the global information economy evolves, organizations are becoming increasingly complex, and innovative organizational models and practices have become crucial to successfully addressing this complexity. Consequently, leadership in this environment requires higher, more sophisticated levels of knowledge and skills. The DBA program is designed to serve this need by providing doctoral-level education to professional practitioners in business and management.