Candidacy

Once these requirements are completed, a student should petition the Program Office to submit the appropriate forms to the Office of the Registrar to insure that he or she is advanced to candidacy. By this, a student is advanced to Third-Level status. At this point, a student may apply to be awarded a Master of Philosophy degree.

• All doctoral students advanced to Level III after September 1, 1999, need to submit a Dissertation Proposal Clearance: Human Participants form (attached below), which is sent to all students by the Registrar when they advance to Level III. Students are required to submit this form to the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs after the dissertation topic and methodology are approved by their committees and before research begins.

This form is requisite also to demonstrate that Human Participants will NOT be studied for dissertation research.