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Congratulations on joining the Professional Doctorate in Business Administration DBA programme, and a very warm welcome to St Mary's.

Your induction timetable

Introduction to Doctorate in Business Administration

About the session

This online-live session will be an opportunity for new students to get to know one another and the academic staff who will be teaching you. The session will be 1.5 hours and will provide you with important information about your programme structure, learning and teaching delivery, programme expectations and an introduction to the non-academic support available to you. We look forward to having a conversation with you.

Microsoft Teams joining details:
Meeting ID: 323 003 799 880 251
Passcode: 9wo7Rq7L

University-wide induction

Your Welcome Week timetable

Try some of the welcome activities and socials on campus during 14-18 September. From fitness to freebies, they're great ways to settle into university life.

Be sure to join your Faculty induction and social activities:

Tuesday 15 September

  • 1-4pm - Faculty induction: Faculty of Sport, Technology and Health Sciences (G5 and G7)
  • 4-6pm - Faculty social: Faculty of Sport, Technology and Health Sciences (1850 Bar)

Wednesday 16 September

  • 1:30-3pm - Faculty induction: Education (G7) and Arts (Waldegrave Drawing Room) only
  • 1:30-3pm - Faculty team building activity: Business, Law and Theology only (The 1850)
  • 3-4:30pm - Faculty induction: Business, Law (G7) and Theology (N44) only
  • 3-4:30pm - Faculty team building activity: Education and Arts only
  • 4:30-6pm - Faculty social: Faculty of Arts, Business, Law, Education and Theology (1850 Bar)

Find out why we're rated Gold in student experience (2023 Teaching Excellence Framework).

Join one of the mandatory Student Essentials sessions in Welcome Week

These are a warm welcome and introduction to different faces you’ll see at the university, plus essential info about support services, health and safety, the code of conduct, and ID cards.

Complete the two mandatory Learning Modules online

St Mary's University is committed to creating a safe, respectful and inclusive environment for everyone.

All students must complete this Harassment and Sexual Misconduct online training module on your Moodle accounts by Friday 30 October 2026 and further information can be found on the module webpage.

Please note, to access the above module you will need to Log into your University Office 365 account and set up multifactor authentication (need MFA help?), so you can log into University services. You can then use your student email address – [Your student number]@live.stmarys.ac.uk – for Office 365 and University systems.

It’s worth noting, after you enrol there’ll be a short delay until your modules appear in Moodle, our virtual learning environment.

Pre-induction tasks

Please be ready to tell us why you chose St Mary's and what you want to achieve from your course. What skills and talents do you already have that will help you with your degree?

About your programme

Module information

You’ll complete your course one block or ‘semester’ at a time. In each semester you’ll study modules. Some are core modules you have to take – others you’ll be able to choose between when you arrive, personalising the course to your interests.

In your first semester you will study the following modules:

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Further information about the structure of your course can be found within the programme specification document.

Resources

Once you’re registered, you can loan textbooks and other resources from our library. We have plenty of copies of key texts, though some students choose to buy their own.

We’ll let you know more in our induction sessions. Plus how to use our online learning environment Moodle – where you can access, lecture recordings, copies of lecture slides, handouts, further reading, and interactive resources.

Further information

Online enrolment

International students