The ECE PhD program requires a Program of Work consisting of at least least 6 hours of individual instruction Dissertation coursework taken at UT-Austin on a credit/no-credit basis and 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.
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- 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.
- Complete the full classroom instruction 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.
For more details about the ECE PhD Program of Work
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The "see the Program of Work " is the Requirements HERE.
Coursework Requirement
The classroom coursework that is required to complete your PhD program . It is divided into the following categories.
- At least 24 hours must be at the graduate level.
- At least 18 hours must be “Major Coursework”.
- At least 6 hours must be “Supporting Coursework”.
- At least 12 hours of the 30 must be taken for graduate credit at UT-Austin.6 hours must be “Supporting Coursework”.
Which courses may be counted as major work and which may be counted as supporting work can vary not only with the academic track but with the interests of the individual student. Ultimately, all major and supporting coursework must be logically related.
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PhD students also take accompanying individual instruction research problems and dissertation courses before and after entering candidacy, respectively, as required to meet program of work, registration and employment requirements.
Transfer of Coursework
Students who enter the ECE PhD program with a master’s degree from another school, or who took graduate courses at another school without earning a graduate degree, may be able to count up to 6 approved non-UT graduate courses toward the ECE PhD degree. UT-Austin has no formal procedure for transferring these graduate courses a student took at another school toward a PhD at UT-Austin. In ECE, the doctoral student’s supervising professor provides tentative approval of 6 graduate courses maximum from another school that the student can list on the ECE PhD Program of Work form. (Note that coursework earned on the quarter system from another school is calculated as two-thirds of the credit for courses offered on a semester basis. Three quarter-system courses count as two semester-system courses.)
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