Assessing Your Progress
Benchmarks for Assessing Degree Progress
Masters non-thesis track students
Developed by the Graduate Committee, Spring 2002
Approved by the Department of Communication Faculty, 9/25/02
Masters non-thesis track students:
Have you...
- Filed an approved plan of study with the graduate affairs committee by the 12th week of your second semester?
- Completed 18 hours of coursework by the beginning of your second year (12 months into the program)?
- Completed at least 33 hours of coursework by end of your 4th semester (not counting summer as a semester – i.e., the semester in which you take comprehensive exams)?
- Successfully defended your comprehensive exams by the end of your 4th semester?
- Completed 36 hours of coursework by the end of your 2nd year (24 months into the program)?
Masters thesis track students:
Have you...
- Filed an approved plan of study with the graduate affairs committee by the 12th week of your second semester?
- Completed 18 hours of coursework by the beginning of your second year (12 months into the program)?
- Completed 24 hours of coursework by the end of your 3rd semester (not counting summer as a semester)
- Successfully defended your thesis prospectus by the end of your 3rd semester?
- Successfully defended and deposited your masters thesis by the end of your 2nd year (24 months into the program)?
Doctoral students:
Have you...
- Filed an approved plan of study with the graduate affairs committee by the 12th week of your second semester?
- Completed 42 hours of coursework by the end of your 5th semester (not counting summers as semesters)?
- Successfully defended your preliminary exams by the end of your 6th semester?
- Successfully defended your dissertation prospectus by the end of your 7th semester
- Successfully defended and deposited your dissertation by the end of your 4th year (48 months into the program)?