Faculty Handbook 2020-2021

SUNY College of Optometry

Faculty Handbook 2020-21

IX. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Vision Science A. Requirements for the PhD degree

1. The student must complete at least 80 semester credits (see PhD Curriculum requirements, Section IX-B). Candidates are encouraged, in consultation with their advisors, to take advanced seminars and tutorials and relevant course work. 2. The student must have a cumulative grade point average from course work, including research course work, of 3.00 or higher. 3. All students in the PhD Program are expected to attend at least 75 percent of the SIVR Colloquia and/or VisioNYC, presented each academic year, except during the final semester before submitting their dissertation. 4. All PhD students are expected to give a minimum of one presentation at a national conference per year beginning in Year 3. 5. All PhD students are required to make a yearly oral presentation of their research accomplishments. (see Section IX-D on Oral Presentations.) 6. Students must take and pass a Qualifying exam: (see Section IX-F). After passing this exam, the student will advance to candidacy. 7. Students must write a dissertation and have it approved (see Section IX-H). 8. PhD degrees are awarded two times a year, near the end of the Fall and Spring semester. Students may attend the commencement ceremony, held once a year, near the end of the Spring semester, irrespective of when their degree was awarded. When a student has completed all the requirements for the PhD degree, the student must file a written request for the degree with the office of the associate dean. 9. Following a written request for the degree, the Office of the Associate Dean and the Office of the Registrar shall examine the student's credentials and, if all the requirements have been completed, shall recommend that the student be awarded the degree of PhD in Vision Science contingent on acceptance of the dissertation after the student’s oral defense 10. A student in the PhD program who must leave before completion of the PhD for any reason may submit a written request to the associate dean to be considered for conferral of the MS degree. This “terminal masters” is typically awarded only to students who have completed the PhD Core Curriculum and submitted a paper for publication in a peer-reviewed journal resulting from research conducted in the Program.

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