An application for the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Program must include the following:

• Application form
• Application fee ($75)
• One recent color photograph (digital is okay)
• A scan of a current, government-issued photo ID
• Official transcripts, licenses or certificates. The DBA program requires a Master's degree in business administration, in a functional area of business, non-profit management, public administration, a JD degree, or other degree relating to managerial functions from an accredited institution recognized by the US Department of Education and/or CHEA, or by the government of the country in which the degree was awarded, and with an overall GPA of no less than 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, or equivalent from non-USA Institutions.  (Note: If the university does not routinely issue transcripts in English, original language records must be submitted with official English translations. We will accept translations issued by the university or by the following professional translation services: Accredited Language Services; Berlitz; Liaison Linguistics; Josef Silny & Associates; American Evaluation & Translation Services (AETS); and Education Evaluators International. Translations must be exact and complete versions of the original records.)
• At least one course in each of the following: accounting, finance and economics. This requirement must be met before admission to the DBA program.
• A resume documenting a minimum of 5 years of work or teaching experience in a relevant area of business

Non-native English speakers must demonstrate college-level proficiency by providing original documentation in one of the following ways:

• Degree from an accredited institution where English is the primary language of instruction.
• Transcript from an accredited institution indicating completion of at least 30 semester hours of credit where the language of instruction was English (“B” average)
• A minimum TOEFLscore of 550 PBT / 213 CBT/ 80 iBT.
• A minimum TOEICscore of 800.
• A minimum IELTS score of 6.5.
• A minimum PTE (Pearson Test of English Academic Score Report) of 58.
• A minimum BULATS Level 3 (60), accepted only for Cultura Inglesa in Brazil.
• A minimum grade of Level 3 on the ACT COMPASS’s English as a Second Language Placement Test.
• A minimum grade of Pre-1 on the Eiken English Proficiency Exam.
• A minimum B2 English proficiency level identified within the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) Standards and assessed through various ESOL examinations, including the University of Cambridge

Once your application materials have been approved, you will need to submit an Enrollment Agreement and tuition payment to complete the enrollment process.

Internet Access: All students are required to have access to a computer equipped with Internet access capabilities.

Entrance Examination: There is no entrance examination required for admission to Anaheim University.

Transfer Credits: Anaheim University will accept up to three graduate semester classes or 9 units awarded by another institution toward a DBA degree at Anaheim University. The entering student will be required to clearly demonstrate the equivalency of a transfer course through relevant documents (syllabus, catalog, course outline) and justify its acceptance through petition. No course will be considered for transfer with a grade lower than a “B” or its equivalent. Petitions are directed to the specific Dean for the affected program. There is a fee of $75 per course of credit transferred, and the overall program cost will be adjusted to reflect credit for the approved class(es). All petitions for transfer credit must be submitted as part of the student’s initial application to the University. Credits awarded as part of another degree will not be accepted for transfer.

Prior Experiential Credit: Anaheim University will not extend experiential credit to any student.

We currently do not accept students who reside in Alabama, Arkansas, Alaska, American Samoa, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Guam, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, N. Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, Virgin Islands, Wisconsin, and Wyoming due to regulatory matters. For more information, please call our Vice President of Administrative Affairs at 714-772-3330

Anaheim University’s Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree program is comprised of 60 graduate credit hours beyond a completed MBA. The DBA program consists of 9 foundation courses in business administration and research, a qualifying exam which the student must pass at the end of the first year of study, 4 courses in the student’s chosen area of concentration, 2 elective courses, a comprehensive exam which the student must pass in order to advance to the dissertation phase, and a dissertation. Each course in the DBA program is three credit hours, with the exception of the final dissertation writing course.

Curriculum for the DBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurship:

Foundational Courses :

Entrepreneurship courses:

Elective Courses (Choose 1 in each of 2 of the other 3 concentrations):

Management Elective Courses :

International Business courses:

Sustainable Management courses:

Doctoral Dissertation Studies Courses:

Read more: Curriculum

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Program Fees

Affordable Pay-As-You-Learn System: Pay for only one course at a time.

* Costs included in the Total Cost of Program 

**Assumes program completion in 20 enrolled terms and successful completion of each course on the first attempt.

Footnotes:

¹ Student Tuition Recovery Fund (STRF): The Student Tuition Recovery Fund (STRF) is administered by the California BPPE and applies only to California residents. The STRF fee is currently zero dollars ($0.00) per one thousand dollars ($1,000) of institutional charges The State of California established the Student Tuition Recovery Fund (STRF) to relieve or mitigate economic loss suffered by a student in an educational program at a qualifying institution, who is or was a California resident while enrolled, or was enrolled in a residency program, if the student enrolled in the institution, prepaid tuition, and suffered an economic loss. Unless relieved of the obligation to do so, you must pay the state-imposed assessment for the STRF, or it must be paid on your behalf, if you are a student in an educational program, who is a California resident, or are enrolled in a residency program, and prepay all or part of your tuition. You are not eligible for protection from the STRF and you are not required to pay the STRF assessment, if you are not a California resident, or are not enrolled in a residency program. 

² If an applicant requests that a course, or courses, taken at another university be reviewed for transfer credit, the applicant is charged $75 for each course reviewed.  For each course approved for transfer credit, the cost of the applicant’s program will be reduced by the cost of the course that does not have to be taken and the number of courses the applicant will be required to take to complete degree requirements will be reduced by one. Textbook costs will be reduced by the cost of the textbook that would have been used in the AU course.

DBA Course Schedule 2025

Live online webcam seminars are 90 minutes; the first hour is led by the professor and the final half-hour is for student-led discussion. All times are California/Pacific Time. Please note the schedule is subject to change.