Doctoral Program Forms and Associated Timetable

* (See Important Notes)

Time Table

Form

First Year

Winter Term

·   Form D-1: Plan of Study

Replace page 2 with the one of these templates: [Neuro], [Health], [Forensic], [General]

Spring Term

·   Form D-2: Appointment of a Supervising Professor

Following Masters thesis proposal

[Should be brought to proposal meeting]

·   PHD Master's Thesis Approval Form (Internal)

Second Year

Winter Term

[Enter estimated date of comps orals as date]

·   Form D-3: Doctoral Candidacy Committee Appointment & Exam Schedule

Summer Term

[Not completed by students]

·   Forms D-4 and D-4a: Reports on Candidacy Examination

Completed by comps committee post-comps

Following Masters thesis defense

[Should be brought to defense meeting]

·   Thesis Approval Form

Chair withholds signature, pending revisions

Following completion of thesis revisions

·   Thesis Approval Form

Chair signs

Dissertation

One month prior to dissertation proposal

·   Form D-5: Appointment of the Thesis Advisory Committee

Following dissertation proposal 

[Should be brought to proposal meeting]

·   PHD Doctoral Dissertation Approval Form (internal)

Schedule several weeks in advance of dissertation submission deadline

 ·   Dissertation Defense

One month prior to dissertation defense

·   Form D-6: Appointment of the Final Oral Defense Committee

Two weeks before graduation

 ·   Submission of Finalized Dissertation Defense

 ·   Form D-7: Report of the Final Oral Defense Committee

Following dissertation defense

[Should be brought to defense]

·   Thesis Approval Form

Chair withholds signature, pending revisions

Following completion of dissertation revisions

Due: Two weeks before graduation

·   Thesis Approval Form

Chair signs

Internship

During and after internship, if completed all

requirements except for dissertation defense

·   Form D-5a [Provisional] Annual Review of Doctoral Students (for Students on Internship and Beyond)

Graduation

Due Mid-February for June graduation; see other deadlines here

·   Application for Degree (Online form)
Week 10 of term in which graduating

·   Completion Form/Submission of Dissertation to Library

Two weeks prior to graduation

·   Drexel PhD Exit Survey

·   Survey of Earned Doctorates

 

* Important Notes:

  • On these forms, “Program Director” refers to DCT.  (i.e., the signature of the DCT is required.)

  • When forms are complete, students should make a copy for their own records and then submit to the PhD program’s administrator, currently Damaris Oquendo.  The administrator will make a copy for the student’s file, and then submit the original to graduate studies.  (The student should not submit to graduate studies directly.)

  • Ph.D. students who entered the program with a Masters degree should complete all doctoral forms except those specifically related to the Masters thesis, and should indicate that they have a Masters degree on the D-1 form.

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