The University of Zurich’s Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and IT is a leading Business Administration and Economics Faculty in Switzerland and Europe. Our research performance achieves the highest international recognition. In individual areas, we belong to the best in the world. We encourage qualitatively high-ranking, innovative and socially-relevant research  and attract excellent doctoral students from all over the world who are particularly interested to work on innovative and demanding topics at the research frontier.

Graduate School of Business

The University of Zurich's Graduate School of Business offers two PhD study directions ("Business Studies" and "Management & Economics"). Both are comparable to US American and British PhD programs and strive to provide a top research education with supervision by internationally renowned researchers. Students with an excellent Master’s or Diploma degree in Management, Economics or or related and even non-related fields are invited to apply for the program. Students with an outstanding Bachelor’s degree may enroll in a “fast-track” program enabling them to make a master degree on their way to a doctoral degree and use their master thesis as a research proposal for their dissertation, thus saving them up to two semesters in total.

International Research Possibilities

More than 50% of our research staff joined the Faculty from outside Switzerland. Research results are regularly published in international journals ranked A and A+. The Faculty’s Economics department was ranked first in 2009 Handelsblatt ranking with the whole faculty ranked #30 in the Top 10’000 SSRN ranking.  Doctoral students are encouraged and funded to attend international summer schools and conferences to present their results. Funds are also available for international research missions.

Research areas

PhD students may engage in various research areas including but not limited to Accounting & Auditing, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations, Innovation Management, Marketing, Organization Theory, Operations Research, Performance Management,  Personnel Economics, Services and Operations Management or Strategic Management.

Apply today

Applications are now invited for Spring & Autumn 2010. Deadline for Spring 2010 applications is Dec 31st 2009; Autumn 2010 applications should be in our office by Jun 30st 2010. For more information regarding the application procedure visit our homepage www.gsb.uzh.ch/phd2010 or contact gsb-office@irc.uzh.ch. We are also happy to personally answer your questions during office hours. Please call us Tuesday thru Thursday from 9-11am and 2-5pm CET at +41 44 63 42984.