IESE PhD. Who Are We Looking For?
Our doctoral candidates share a curiosity, a passion for research, and an appetite to go beyond the established, and to develop new ideas and paradigms, using rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods.
The profile of our students within IESE’s PhD in Management reflects a broad heterogeneity of backgrounds, experiences, interests, and nationalities. Our current cohort is comprised of 47 students from 25 different countries – a diversity that drives personal enrichment and cross-cultural perspectives across management disciplines.
Student Profile
29
being the average age
25
countries represented
710
average GMAT score
+40
students
45%
female students
+90%
placement in academic careers
International Students
What Are We Looking For?
Meet IESE PhD Students
IESE’s PhD students are immersed in our distinctive research culture. Working closely with faculty, they are conducting innovative research and laying the groundwork for lifelong careers in management research and education.
Visiting Students
Post-graduate students registered in a similar PhD program at another university or business school may apply to IESE as visiting students.
Visiting Students come to IESE to work on their research project, using our facilities and follow both the courses of our Master in Research of Management Program and the elective courses planned during the time of their stay.
PhD Candidates from other Universities who have completed all required coursework may registered as a Visiting Student.
For registration, we need the student’s CV with research interests, a letter of his/her PhD director supporting his/her stay here, dates of the stay and the acceptance of one of the IESE faculty members for being his/her supervisor.
Fees: €3.600/Quarter.
The fees include a workspace, access to the library, an IESE e-mail address and Student ID Card that provides with discounts up to 60% on the catering services on campus.
Note: 50% reduction for EDAMBA associated universities.
If you wish to be a Visiting Student in our MRM or PhD Programs, please contact us: doctoral@iese.edu
Research Highlights
Academic Placements
- Liudmila Alekseeva – KU Leuven, Belgium
- Abhishek D. Deshmane – Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, USA
- Juan Pablo Gorostiaga – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
- Giacomo Marchesini – Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Shagun Tripathi – IE Business School, Spain
- Alexis Yong – IESE Business School, Spain