Navigating Your Degree
We’re here to help you navigate the steps from matriculation to degree completion.
Registration and Coursework
- Adding a Certificate
- Continuous Enrollment policy
- Credit Requirements and Transfer Credit
- Doctoral Minor Requirements
- GradPath Instructions and FAQ
- Faculty instructions for finding pending GradPath forms
- Plan of Study - This required form lists the specific courses to be counted toward a student’s doctoral degree requirements
- Selecting a Faculty Advisor
- Timeline for Doctoral Candidates
Advancing to Candidacy
Dissertation and Defense
- Dissertation Formatting Guide
- Dissertation Prospectus/Proposal
- Dissertation Committee
- Distribution Rights - For Theses and Dissertations
- Final Oral Defense Examination
- Research Resources
- Submission of the Dissertation
- Storage and Publication of Dissertation
Graduation
- Graduation Deadlines
- Commencement Program
- Doctoral Student Exit Survey
- PhD Checklist (used after the final defense has been completed)
Special Requests
- Doctor of Audiology
- Doctor of Education
- Doctor of Musical Arts
- Doctor of Nursing Practice
- Program Additions and Changes Form - Please refer to the Graduate College policies regarding use of this form
- Leave of Absence
- Petitions
Master’s
Registration and Coursework
- Adding a Degree or Certificate
- Candidacy Fees
- Completing the Plan of Study - This required form lists the specific courses to be counted toward a student’s master’s degree requirements
- Continuous Enrollment Policy
- Credit Requirements
- Faculty or Professional Graduate Advisor - Each Master's student must have an advisor.
- Forming a thesis committee
- GradPath Instructions and FAQ
- Timeline for Master's/Specialist Candidates
Graduation
- Graduation Deadlines
- Commencement Program
- Final Defense Instructions
- Master's Student Exit Survey
- Thesis Formatting Guide
- Thesis/Dissertation Page Samples
- Master's Thesis Archiving Instructions
- Distribution Rights - For Theses and Dissertations
Special Requests
- Credit for Prior Learning
- Program Additions and Changes Form - Please refer to the Graduate College policies regarding use of this form
- Leave of Absence
- Petitions
- Readmission
Graduate Certificates
About
- Overview
- Program Additions and Changes Form - Please refer to the Graduate College policies regarding use of this form
- Stackable Certificates
Registration and Coursework
- Candidacy Fees
- Credit for Prior Learning
- Credit Requirements
- Continuous Enrollment
- GradPath Instructions and FAQ
- Plan of Study
- Transfer Credit