Doctorates in Business Administration: A Demand and Supply Analysis

The 1965 questionnaire, which was part of a larger study for the Ford Foundation, requested information on faculty hired within the last five years and projections of faculty needs for the coming five years. AACSB member schools are those listed as members in the AACSB 1965 directory, Faculty Personnel; 104 schools responded to the questionnaire, and data for the other nine schools were obtained from other sources.

Faculty Requirements and Standards in Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB, 1956).

Ibid., p. 81.

“Enlarging the Supply of Qualified Candidates for Faculty Positions in Business Administration,” op. cit., pp. 60–83.

“Business School Faculties: Potential New Sources,” op. cit., pp. 111–125.

Op. cit., p. 18.

Op. cit., pp. 111–125.

Higher Education for Business, Gordon R. A. Howell J. E. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959). The Education of American Businessmen, Pierson Frank C. , New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959).

Standards for Admission to the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business, April 23, 1949.

Earned Degrees by Field of Study and Level Projected to 1975 (U.S. Office of Education, Washington, D.C., 1964).

The expected alleviation of the shortage in business is consistent with the general trend in higher education. Allan M. Cartter states that, “… after 1968 the ‘expansion demand’ for new faculty will shrink again, while there will be a steadily increasing number of doctoral degrees awarded each successive year.” An Assessment of Quality in Graduate Education (Washington, D.C., American Council on Education, 1966), p. 2.