Course Description:
Join top candidates from across the continent, participate in rich cultural and social debates and realise the vastness of the knowledge domains you can master by developing your learning and research skills.
Join top candidates from across the continent, participate in rich cultural and social debates and realise the vastness of the knowledge domains you can master by developing your learning and research skills.
Duration:
Consult supervisor
Qualification:
PhD
Study mode:
Full Time, Part Time
Academic category:
Research degree
Academic Research
Choose the WBS PhD programme and choose to be part of an incredible group of innovators and new thinkers emerging from the African continent.
The WBS PhD programme is the largest in South Africa and one of the most highly regarded on the continent. We seek out and bring together top candidates from across Africa to address important topics in their PhD research that are relevant to the advancement of business and society on our continent. We have students from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Zambia and of course South Africa, and the best faculty from across the continent so that our PhD is authentically African in perspective. As a student of our PhD programme, you will gain real cultural and social insights from our commercial and political debates, you will sharpen your ability to articulate, grow in confidence and realise the vastness of the knowledge domains you can master by developing your learning and research skills. A PhD shows the world you are capable of putting in the disciplined effort, logical thought and leaps of insight needed to be a ground-breaking innovator. It tells employers that you work diligently to discover new truths, evaluate alternative approaches and forge ways forward based on solid evidence.
The School is particularly keen to enrol students in the following areas of study:
Essential Websites to Visit:
PhD January 2020 intake (applications open 1 August until 30 September 2019).
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Document Downloads
2020 PhD Guideline Document.pdf
2020 WBS PLAGIARISM POLICY APPENDIX 1_PhD.docx
Checklist Explanation document
Terms and Conditions For Online PG Funding Applications
Financial Assistance - https://www.wits.ac.za/internationalstudents/financial-information/how-to-pay/
University Rules and Regulations - https://www.wits.ac.za/students/academic-matters/rules-and-syllabuses/
Financial Assistance - https://www.wits.ac.za/study-at-wits/fees-and-funding/
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Mmabatho Leeuw, PhD Programme Manager
Telephone:
011 717 3621
Disclaimer: Cancellation of programmes by WBS