Academic Policies & Procedures
Doctoral Students
- Doctoral Degrees Offered
- Doctoral Degree Progress Sequence
- Prerequisites
- Doctoral Advisory Committee
- Transfer of Credit
- Revalidation of Courses
- Course Prescription Requirements
- Course Prescription Meeting
- Doctoral Qualifying Examination Procedures
- Enrollment after the Qualifying Examination and Off-Campus Enrollment
- Admission to Candidacy
- Formation of Dissertation Research Committee
- Nomination of Research Committee approval by UGS (submit NORC eDoc via UGS)
- Dissertation Proposal Meeting with Research Committee
- IRB Approval (Human and Animal Subjects)
- Begin Dissertation Research
- Dissertation Completion Within Seven Years
- Application for Graduation
- Final Dissertation Defense
- Dissertation Submission and Publication