Academic Policies & Procedures
Doctoral Students
Doctoral Degree Progress Sequence
The chronological steps in the doctoral degree process are:
- Admission
- Formation of an advisory committee (first term)
- Prescription of course work (second term)
- Completion of course work
- Qualifying examination
- Admission to candidacy
- Formation of research committee
- Dissertation proposal meeting
- Completion of dissertation research
- Application to participate in IU Commencement (via UGS eDoc)
- Application to defend dissertation (via internal SPH form)
- Defense announcement (via UGS eDoc)
- Defense of dissertation
- Submission of final dissertation
- Graduation (degree conferral)
