Doctor of Philosophy in Business- Business Information Technology

The Business Information Technology (BIT) PhD program at Virginia Tech is a highly innovative and interdisciplinary program that prepares students to become leading faculty members in top-tier research universities. The program's STEM-based curriculum fuses operations management, supply chain management, management information systems, information systems, artificial intelligence, business analytics, decision science, and information technology. This allows students to produce cutting-edge, transdisciplinary research that appears in the most elite of journals, on which our faculty serve as editors and routinely publish in high volumeincluding but not limited to: Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Computers & Security, Computers and Human Behavior, and others.

Applicants to the PhD in Business with a concentration in Business Information Technology must complete and submit scores for the candidate's choice of either the GRE exam or the GMAT exam. There is no minimum required GRE/GMAT score, but full GRE/GMAT exam results must be provided. However, entrance into this prestigious Ph.D program is highly competitive, and thus all other factors being equal, candidates should be in the upper 90th percentile or higher in these exams to be fully competitive. High grades from quality universities, academic references, and demonstrated potential for conducting academic research all weigh in heavily on admissions decisions.
Minimum GPA: 3.0
Testing Requirements: IELTS score of 6.5 TOEFL Paper 577.0 iBT 90.0