DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PH.D.)
To earn the Ph.D. degree students are required to complete the following requirements:
- Complete 60 credits of lecture, seminar and research courses.
- Pass an oral comprehensive examination before the end of the second year.
- Present a departmental seminar in the third year.
- Submit and defend an original proposal for research unrelated to the dissertation topic by the end of the third year.
- Present a final research seminar in the fourth/fifth year.
- Prepare and successfully defend a dissertation based on original and independent research approved by the research advisor.
