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3.1. GRADUATE DEGREE REQUIREMENTS Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY The University faculty recommends the granting of degrees. To receive a graduate degree from the University, students must meet the minimum requirements set forth by the SUS and the University and the specific requirements established by the degree program. (See also Section 8.) The following minimum conditions are required to receive a graduate degree. Additional requirements may be set and must be specified in policies and procedures manuals of each individual degree granting program.
Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY Students must
meet residency requirements, where applicable, and time limits for degree
completion. Students also must satisfactorily complete all University
and program requirements including:
Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY The student must complete the application for graduation. The faculty of the degree granting program, the department chairperson and the academic dean recommend awarding the degree. The Dean of the University Graduate School certifies that all academic and administrative requirements have been met.
3.2. UNIVERSITY RESIDENCY
REQUIREMENTS Effective: January 10, 2001 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY The University has no residency requirements for the doctoral degree programs but individual degree programs may have such requirement. If such requirements exist, they must be specified in the policy and procedures manuals for those programs.
Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY The University has no residency requirement for masters degree programs but individual degree programs may have such requirements. If such requirements exist, they must be specified in the policies and procedures manuals for those programs.
3.2.3. GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS Effective: June 10, 2003 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs POLICY Graduate Certificates require 15 to 18 hours of graduate credit. At least six of the hours must be in core courses taken by all individuals obtaining a given Graduate Certificate. Admission to a Graduate Certificate program requires an undergraduate degree. Individual departments may have additional requirements for admission. Students in a Graduate Certificate program, who meet the admission requirements of a master's degree program and are admitted, may transfer up to 12 graduate credits taken in a Graduate Certificate into a master's degree program, subject to the approval of the master's degree program Graduate Program Director. All the credits earned in a Graduate Certificate Program may be used in a master's degree program provided the student is admitted to the master's degree program prior to the completion of no more than 12 Graduate Certificate credits. At the discretion of the departmental graduate committee, or equivalent, students holding a bachelor's degree who have completed 12 Graduate Certificate credits with a 3.25 or better GPA may be admitted to a master's degree program without taking the GRE or GMAT examination even if the student has an undergraduate GPA between 2.75 and 3.0. These students need to apply and be admitted before completing any additional hours in order to have those additional hours counted both for their Graduate Certificate and for their master's degree. In all cases the Graduate Program Director will evaluate whether or not the Graduate Certificate credits are acceptable in that particular graduate program. PROCEDURE When possible, Graduate Certificates should be designed so that there is at least one master's degree program in which the credits earned while obtaining the Graduate Certificate may apply, provided the admission and transfer requirements outlined above are met. Proposals for new Graduate Certificates require: a program description including the relationship of the Graduate Certificate to the goals and mission of the unit and the University; the need for the program; the expected number of students in the program over the first five years; any impact on other units; and any required resources. If the unit dean certifies that the Graduate Certificate will require no new resources, a detailed budget is not required. New Graduate Certificate approval process will be the same as that established for new graduate program tracks. Graduate Certificates should be titled "Graduate Certificate in."
Effective: April 18, 2006 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive
Vice President POLICY Programs leading to a doctoral degree require at least 75 semester credit hours beyond the bachelor's degree. These shall include a minimum of:
30 credit hours earned in academic courses which are part of the doctoral program (See Section 2.4.1.)
Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY Programs leading to a masters degree will normally require at least 30 credit hours of non-thesis course work.
3.3.2.1. COMBINED BACHELOR/MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAMS Effective: September 21, 2004 AUTHORITY/SOURCE
Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY Admission
Double Counted Courses
3.3.3. COURSES AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY Following admission to the University, admitted students may take a maximum of 6 credit hours at other institutions. Courses taken within the SUS or affiliated programs may exceed this limit, provided the student has the prior approval of the program director and the academic dean.
Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY Doctoral
programs normally make use of courses at the 6000 level and above. Courses
at the 5000 level may be included in a Masters programs normally make use of courses at the 5000 and 6000 levels. A maximum of 6 credits of advanced undergraduate courses (4000 level) may be included in a masters degree program if they are needed in order to fulfill program requirements. No course counted toward a student's undergraduate degree may be included in that student's masters degree program.
Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY Every doctoral degree program must require each student to pass a candidacy examination written and/or oral before he or she may be admitted to candidacy for the doctoral degree. This examination generally is taken after all course requirements have been completed, but the student's Research Committee may make exceptions consistent with Section 6.2. (See Section 6 for detailed candidacy procedures.)
Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY The University has no requirement for candidacy or candidacy examinations at the masters level. However, individual programs may require comprehensive oral and/or written examinations. If such requirements exist they must be specified in the catalog and the policies and procedures manuals for those programs.
3.5. DISSERTATION AND THESIS
REQUIREMENTS Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY A dissertation is required of all candidates for a doctoral degree. (See Section 7.)
Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY If a thesis is required as part of a masters program, this requirement must be clearly stated in the catalog and the policies and procedures manual for the degree program. In such cases all of the University policies and procedures governing theses apply. (See Section 7.)
3.6. TIME LIMITS TO GRADUATION Effective: December 7, 2004 AUTHORITY/SOURCE
Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY At the doctoral level all requirements, including the successful defense of a dissertation, must be completed within nine years of first enrollment in the doctoral program. For the M.F.A. degree, all requirements including the successful defense of a thesis must be completed within eight years of first enrollment in the master's program. For all other master's degree programs all requirements, including the successful defense of a thesis where required, must be completed within six years of first enrollment in the master's program. |
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Dr. Stephan L. Mintz, Interim Dean of the University Graduate School ugsadean@fiu.edu PC 230 · Phone (305) 348-2455 · Fax (305) 348-3433 http://gradschool.fiu.edu << BACK TO TABLE OF CONTENTS |