Minimum requirements
Master’s degree
- 30 course hours (15 class hours per credit) and 66 dissertation (thesis) credits
- Proof of English Language Proficiency at the application process
- Completion of all requirements and deposit of dissertation within 26 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
- 34 course hours (15 class hours per credit) and 190 thesis (dissertation) credits
- Proof of English Language Proficiency at the application process
- 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)
- 50 course hours (15 class hours per credit) and 190 thesis (dissertation) credits
- Proof of English Language Proficiency at the application process
- Approval in the Qualifying Exam
- Completion of all requirements and deposit of dissertation within 45 months of first enrollment
- A thesis supervised by the academic Advisor to be defended in a final, oral examination by an Examination Committee