Funding

• Winners of major external awards (OGS, QEII and Tri-Council) may be eligible for top-up funding which includes the Dean’s Graduate Scholarship (total value exceeds $10,000).
• Eligible domestic students admitted to study on a full-time basis receive a minimum of $27,000 a year. This support may be made up of teaching assistantships, internal/external scholarships, and/or faculty-funded studentships or research assistantships.
• A list of all funding opportunities available to Laurier graduate students, including information about OGS, QEII and Tri-Council, is available on our graduate funding webpage.

Research Focus

Challenge yourself and work with experts in your field as you write and defend a doctoral dissertation. You can pursue research in any of our five fields:

• Accounting
• Finance
• Marketing
• Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
• Operations and Supply Chain Management

Requirements

• A master’s degree in business or related field with a minimum B+ standing.
• A GMAT score of at least 650 or a GRE score of at least 305. Please note that the GMAT/GRE requirement is mandatory for the application and cannot be waived.
• Proficiency in English.
• Applications are reviewed by the graduate program committee, which considers all prior university grades, a statement of research interests, an academic writing sample, and letters of reference.

Careers

Our graduates have gone on to work in academia, as well as within industry in their respective fields. Examples of jobs held by our graduates include:

• assistant professor, School of Administrative Studies, York University
• senior associate, PriceWaterhouse Coopers
• assistant professor, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University
• assistant professor, Global Business School, Kean University, New Jersey
• assistant professor, College of Business, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates