The programme is organized in 8 residential modules, consisting of 3-5 consecutive days each. This setup makes it perfect also for participants residing outside the Netherlands, as they only have to travel a limited number of times to Rotterdam. The 4 mandatory modules in year 1 take place every 2-3 months.
The programme fee is € 10,000 per year for the first two years, €7,000 per year for years 3 and 4, and €6,000 for each subsequent year, up to a maximum of €46,000.
From academic year 2021 on, RSM offers a yearly maximum of two scholarships for the part-time PhD program. These are meant to support excellent candidates who are not able to financially sustain the program participation from own resources. The scholarship covers the tuition costs.
Candidates who wish to apply for such a scholarship need to indicate this in their application for the program and credibly demonstrate that a scholarship is a necessary condition for their participation. This implies that other options for financial support, like a contribution from the employer or a research scholarship from different organizations have been investigated by the candidate prior to the application.
Under all candidates eligible for the scholarship, the selection will be made based on excellence.
The continuation of the scholarships will be decided on a yearly basis, based on progress made and ongoing need for financial support.
If you have a personal contact with a professor, you may contact them directly to see whether they are interested in your project and/or acting as a supervisor for your project. If you don’t have a connection yet, it is best to send your (short) proposal to us directly, along with a shortlist of potential supervisors, so we can help you get in touch with the right person.
For the 2024 cohort we aim to have approximately 25 candidates.
If you missed the application deadline of March 15th by only a few weeks, you may contact us directly (ptphd@rsm.nl) to discuss your options. If the programme is not yet filled, we may be able to accept a late application, depending on supervisory capacity of course.
This will depend on the nature of the courses followed and any exemptions will be decided on a case-by-case basis. However, the modules are organized in such a way that they build upon one another, so following the entire course programme is recommended.
Please send an email to ptphd@rsm.nl.
If you have a personal contact with a professor, you may contact them directly to see whether they are interested in your project and/or acting as a supervisor for your project. If you don’t have a connection yet it is best to start by looking at our research are descriptions (link “Open PhD projects”) and connect your research idea to one of the themes described there in your application. We will then (try to) match you with interested faculty members.
No, this is not mandatory. It is mandatory to submit a sample of academic writing, which can be a research proposal, but could also be a thesis excerpt or a paper.
However, it increases your chances of acceptance, if you have thought about the questions that would normally be addressed in a research proposal (see below) and if you can address them in your application.
If this just consumes one or two paragraphs, it will be most convenient to include it in the motivation letter. If you need more space to address these questions properly, it is advised to submit a research proposal.
Have a look at our research areas (link “Open PhD projects”) and try to connect your idea to the themes described there. Have a look at the (academic) literature regarding these themes and topics: To what extent is your question already answered? To what extent is it new, and adds to the body of knowledge that is already there? Have similar problems been researched in the literature – and how have researchers approached them? Would that approach also work for your question?
The research proposal that you submit in your application (if any) will serve as a first point of departure with your potential supervisors, and will develop over the first year in the programme into a proper academic research proposal.
Have a look at our Dissertations and on the personal pages of our PhD students. You will be surprised by the diversity of topics that fall into the realm of ‘Management’.