The ECE PhD program requires a Program of Work consisting of at least thirty semester hours of graduate level classroom instruction courses (ten three-hour courses) taken for a letter grade and not used toward an undergraduate degree nor a prior PhD. PhD students must maintain a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.33 within the graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin prior to completing the PhD Program of Work.
The Program of Work is divided into the following categories.
- 18 hours must be “Major Coursework”.
- 6 hours must be “Supporting Coursework”.
- At least 12 hours of the 30 must be taken for graduate credit at UT-Austin.
*Note that students Students must complete the full requirements of the PhD Program of Work prior to attempting 9 hours of classroom coursework that cannot be used toward the PhD Program of Work, except as approved for other purposes.*
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