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COMPUTER SCIENCES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
MILESTONES AND PROJECTED TIME TABLE FOR COMPLETION OF THE DEGREE

FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Effective: Fall 2007

This time table is a guide for completion of the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science. The milestones should be met by full-time students who enter the Ph.D. program with an Master's of Science degree in Computer Science and are required to earn 18 credits of formal course work. Part-time students and students who are required to earn more than 18 credits of formal course work will need to adjust these milestones.

Semester Milestones
0 Assign initial Academic Advisor [Graduate Admissions Committee]
1 Confirm initial Academic Advisor [student selection if necessary]
2 Establish Breadth Examination Committee [obtain approved reading list and study guide]
3 Pass Breadth Exam [tenth or eleventh week of semester]
4 Finalize a PhD Major Advisor and establish Doctoral Committee
5 Pass Depth Exam
6 Pass Dissertation Proposal and be admitted into candidacy
10 Pass Dissertation Defense



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