Date:2025-08-04

114-1 (Fall 2025) PhD Candidacy Qualifying Examination: Applications Open Until Tuesday, Sep. 30.

Application Documents
One original copy of the application form and official academic transcripts for all years of study (required graduation credits are completed)are required.

For those applying for "Off-site Written and Video Examination" under special circumstances, approval must first be obtained from the supervising professor and passed by a resolution of the joint faculty meeting of the department and institute.

Examination Date
The examination is tentatively scheduled to be held at the end of the current semester. The confirmed date will be announced separately.

Examination Method and Deadline
Students must pass both the qualifying examination and the dissertation proposal to obtain doctoral candidacy.

For those taking the "On-site Examination":

The duration for each subject is 180 minutes. Students are not permitted to consult books or other reference materials in the examination venue.

For those taking the "Off-site Written and Video Examination":

The examination must be completed before the end of the semester in which the application is made.

The professor setting the questions has full discretion over the response time and the number of questions. The written examination period is 5 to 7 days. The student's written answers will be uploaded by the supervising professor to the university library's recognized originality-checking system for a similarity index report. This report will serve as a reference for the examining professor during the video interview.

The graduate student must attend a video interview with the examining professor on a designated date. The entire video interview must be recorded for archival purposes, and the examining professor will send the recording file back to the department office for record-keeping.

The grade for the qualifying examination will be determined by the examining professor based on an overall assessment of the student's performance in both the written test and the oral interview.