Program Milestones

Students will be required to complete three program milestones as part of their degree requirements:

• A qualifying exam in which students will write and orally defend a written grant proposal to their Qualifying Exam Committee;
• A dissertation proposal defense in which students will write and orally defend their idea for dissertation research to their Dissertation Committee; and
• A dissertation defense in which students will present their written dissertation and orally defend it to their Dissertation Committee.