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The doctoral degree requires a minimum of three years of full-time graduate study
in the student’s degree program and either a minimum of 135 graduate credits beyond
the bachelor’s degree or a minimum of 90 credits beyond a master’s degree, including
at least 10 hours in dissertation research. Some program credit requirements may
be higher. Credits earned in professional law or medicine programs are not applicable
to a graduate degree. The last 45 credits must be completed under the direction
of University of Cincinnati graduate faculty. In no case, however, will a degree
be granted solely on the basis of the accumulation of the required number of credits.
A program will recommend students for degrees only after they have developed the
necessary intellectual maturity and have fulfilled all other requirements of the
program and the university.
Students enrolled in full-time graduate study must register for a minimum of ten
graduate credit hours per quarter; students receiving financial awards from the
university must be registered for 12 graduate credit hours per quarter in their
program (see Costs & Funding). For students
who must devote less than full-time to graduate study, those hours must be judged
appropriate by their advisory program. To maintain graduate status, students must
register in their program for at least one graduate hour in each academic year.
Prior to admission to doctoral candidacy, all doctoral students shall complete a
residency requirement by enrolling in ten graduate credit hours per quarter for
three out of five consecutive quarters of study (including summer quarter) or three
consecutive summer quarters. Exceptions to this policy must be submitted for approval
to the Graduate Council.
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