Doctoral Studies

The Doctoral programme is an international programme aimed for those seeking academic careers or high level positions in business. Doctoral students choose one of the departmen's subjects as a major, and apply to the Aalto University School of Business Doctoral programme. It is possible to apply to a specific subject, even though one has not studied that as a major in the master's level. The Center for Doctoral studies coordinates all the doctoral studies within the Aalto University School of Business.

The Doctoral degree (240 ECTS) studies consist of the doctoral dissertation as well as a selection of scientific doctoral courses, depending on the subject of interest.

The professors in charge of the doctoral studies in each subject area are following:

• Information systems science: Professor Virpi Tuunainen
• Logistics: Professor Markku Kuula
• Management science: Professor Timo Kuosmanen

Technology Management and policy: students cannot select this as a major. If you are interested in this area, contact Professor Markku Kuula

(emails: firstname.lastname [at] aalto [dot] fi)

More information related to the doctoral degree can be found from the Doctoral Studies website or the Center for Doctoral Studies.

More information related to applying to the doctoral studies can be found from Admission times and forms.

The department's recent Doctoral Dissertations can be found from library web sites:

• Information systems science dissertations
• Logistics dissertations
• Quantitative methods dissertations
• Management science dissertations

The department has co-operation with graduate schools that can help students with finance and offer doctoral level courses. See for example:

Graduate School of Systems Analysis

The Systems Analysis Laboratory, TKK runs the graduate school in Systems analysis, decision making and risk management in collaboration with Aalto University School of Business (Faculties of Management science and Quantitative methods in economics and management science). The graduate school has about 70 postgraduate students. It promotes research in mathematical modeling and decision making methodologies in engineering, managerial, and environmental problem solving.

» Graduate School in Systems Analysis, Decision Making and Risk Management