TIME LIMIT FOR COMPLETION OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

All requirements for the doctoral degree must be completed within five calendar years from the time the student passes the written and oral portions of the preliminary examination, or the student’s supervisory committee will require that a new preliminary examination be passed.

In the College of Social Work, students renewing their doctoral candidacy by retaking their preliminary exams after the five-year period for completion of a dissertation has expired may do so a maximum of one time. After passing all components of the preliminary examination a second time (written and oral), students who have not successfully defended a dissertation within five years will be dismissed from the program.