Minimum requirements

Master’s degree

  • 48 course hours (15 class hours per credit) and 48 dissertation (thesis) credits
  • Proof of English Language Proficiency within 365 days after enrollment
  • Completion of all requirements and deposit of dissertation within 30 months of first enrollment
  • A dissertation supervised by the academic Advisor shall be defended in a final, oral examination by an Examination Committee

Doctor’s degree

  • 48 course hours (15 class hours per credit) and 144 thesis (dissertation) credits
  • Proof of English Language Proficiency within 365 days after enrollment
  • Approval in the Qualifying Exam
  • Completion of all requirements and deposit of dissertation within 42 months of first enrollment
  • A thesis supervised by the academic Advisor to be defended in a final, oral examination by an Examination Committee

Doctor’s degree (Direct Doctorate)

  • 96 course hours (15 class hours per credit) and 144 thesis (dissertation) credits
  • Proof of English Language Proficiency within 365 days after enrollment
  • Approval in the Qualifying Exam
  • Completion of all requirements and deposit of dissertation within 60 months of first enrollment
  • A thesis supervised by the academic Advisor to be defended in a final, oral examination by an Examination Committee