General Requirements for Advanced Degrees
Ph.D. Degree
- Major Subject and Minor Subjects
- Double Majoring
- Combined Degree Programs
- Assignment to an Advisory Committee
- Maintaining Academic Progress
- Qualifying Examinations
- Admission to Candidacy
- Continuing Enrollment
- Dissertation Research Committee
- Preparing Dissertations
- Dissertation Defense
- Submitting Accepted Dissertations
The Ph.D. degree requires completion of at least 90 credit hours of an advanced course of study. The degree is awarded in recognition of a candidate’s command of a broad field of knowledge and accomplishment in that field through an original contribution of meaningful knowledge and ideas.