Ph.D. (Executive)

The Executive Ph.D. programme at IIM Indore, Indore is a doctoral track built for experienced working professionals who want to pursue original research in a management discipline without stepping away from their career, structured around residential contact sessions combined with research work carried out alongside the participant's job. It suits senior professionals and practitioners who already have significant industry exposure and want to formalise that experience into a rigorous research contribution, typically under the guidance of a faculty advisor at the institute. The coursework component builds research method and theory foundations before participants move into supervised dissertation work on a topic connected to their own professional domain. Because participants remain employed throughout, the schedule is designed around periodic campus visits rather than continuous residency, and progress is reviewed against research milestones rather than a conventional semester calendar. Graduates typically go on to senior strategic, consulting or academic roles where the doctoral research adds credibility to their professional standing. Intake for each batch is decided by the institute and, where applicable, divided across the categories and quotas set by current policy; the seat matrix for a given admission cycle is published in the official notification issued by IIM Indore, Indore and is reissued every session, so that notification is the source to check.