a wide range of professional and academic backgrounds that everyone has access to a multitude of different experiences.

This unique environment nurtures research that is both thoroughly solid and highly innovative. It’s a combination that makes the INSEAD PhD very special indeed and creates a passion for research that is infectious. As a result, this is a place where groundbreaking ideas are born.

For an academic, there is nothing more satisfying than watching bright students reach their full potential seeing them graduate from acquiring knowledge to generating knowledge themselves. This is exactly what happens over the course of the PhD programme. It is therefore hardly surprising that, over its first two decades, INSEAD has
attracted PhD candidates of the highest calibre. From the very beginning, its graduates have achieved extraordinary career success. Today, our alumni community includes many prominent academics at the world’s very best institutions.

Those who join the INSEAD PhD programme today thus become part of a strong tradition of excellence and can look forward to being the standard bearers for a third great decade. At INSEAD, you will better understand the world - and through this, expand your world.


Professor Nils Rudi
Dean, INSEAD PhD Programme