The ECE PhD program requires a Program of Work consisting of at least 6 hours of individual instruction Dissertation coursework taken at UT-Austin on a credit/no-credit basis and thirty 30 semester hours of graduate-level classroom-based 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 classroom-based portion of the PhD Program of Work.
- Complete the full classroom instruction requirements -based portion of the PhD Program of Work prior to attempting 9 hours of classroom-based coursework that cannot be used toward the PhD Program of Work, except as approved for other purposes.
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