[AISWorld] fully funded full-time PhD positions at Virginia Tech

[paul.lowry.phd at gmail.com]

The PhD program in Business Information Technology (BIT) within the Pamplin
College of Business at Virginia Tech is seeking applicants for several fully
funded PhD student positions for Fall 2023. The application system is open
from now until 15-Feb-2023. The first round of consideration for our premium
scholarship funding ($25K base + $10.5K a year for up to 5 years) will start
the first week of January 2023; thus, we encourage early applications.

 

Admissions into the BIT PhD program is highly competitive. Preference is for
candidates with master's degrees or some work experience, and top academic
credentials with strong research inclinations. Support is generally as
follows:

.                     Up to five years of funding of $35500 each year  

.                     First two summers, additional $6000 summer support

.                     Year tuition waivers 

.                     Funding for data collection, conference travel

.                     Software licenses and access to hardware

 

The following are key points of distinction of our program:

 

1.	The BIT PhD is one of the few certified STEM-based PhD degrees that
is housed in a leading business school.
2.	Several highly marketable interdisciplinary emphases can be chosen
as fields of study, including but not limited to:

.                     Information Systems/Information Technology

.                     Security and Privacy

.                     Operations Management/Research, Supply Chain, and
Management Science

.                     Business Analytics/Data Analytics, Decision Science,
Artificial Intelligence

3.	The BIT's world-class interdisciplinary faculty members work closely
with PhD students. BIT PhD faculty are among the most productive IS/IT, OM,
and MS scholars in the world, routinely publishing in Management Science,
Information Systems Research, J. of Operations Management, MIS Quarterly,
Production and Operations Management, J. of Management Information Systems,
and the like. 
4.	A rich curriculum allows for three different methodological tracks
in addition to the department's multiple BIT PhD seminars:

.                     Behavioral or organizational research methods

.                     Quantitative and econometric research methods

.                     Data and decision science research methods

5.	The Pamplin College of Business is in the final process of
fund-raising for a new four-building $250 million campus, called the Global
Business and Analytics Complex. One of the buildings being built right now
is a 100,000+ square foot building fully dedicated to business analytics and
data science-the only one of its kind at leading business schools.

 

The website for the BIT department, including the BIT PhD program, with the
application link can be found at  <https://bit.vt.edu/> https://bit.vt.edu/ 

 

For more information please contact: Paul Benjamin Lowry,
<mailto:bitphdadmin at vt.edu> bitphdadmin at vt.edu, Business Information
Technology PhD and Graduate Programs Director