Prospective Student:

Welcome to the International Development Doctoral Program at Southern Miss. I am glad you stopped by for a visit. Let me tell you a few things about our program that makes us unique and of which I am proud.

• We are the only International Development Doctoral Program in the country that has as its focus the executive student. We offer our program in a hybrid delivery allowing working professionals to keep their careers and earn a Ph.D. at the same time.

• We are not an online university. We are a brick and mortar university which is soon to celebrate its 100th anniversary which happens to offer this executive doctoral program that has an online component.

• In August 2009, the program turned ten (10) years old. In that time we have graduated 26 students and have over seventy (70) students in the program from all over the United States and abroad as well.

• We have five core faculty members representing the social science disciplines of Economics, Geography, Political Science, and International Studies. Beyond these five core faculty we have social science faculty across the university that participate in this unique program.

• Our faculty and students are research active in both publications and grants. This makes the program dynamic and up-to-date in the latest theories, methods, and analysis in the field of international development.

• The typical student in the doctoral program is very bright, well read, and typical of a life-long learner. Teaching and mentoring this type of student is a pleasure and the faculty of the program learn much from the students as part of the student’s progress through the doctoral program.

Please visit the rest of our website and if you would like more information about our program or would like to know how to apply, click the “Want to Know More?” button and fill out the form or contact me directly.

Sincerely,

David L. Butler, Ph.D.
Director
david.butler@usm.edu
601.266.4735