11.04.99.R0.18 Time Limitations for Graduate Programs

Effective: September 1, 1996

Revised: Graduate Council FY02

Supplements System Policy: System Policy 11.04

1. Master's Degree.

a. Credit earned over six years prior to graduation will require specific written departmental justification and approval of the Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in order to be counted toward a master's degree. The discipline in which the course(s) was taken shall be involved in the validation of an out-of-date course.

b. In no case may courses more than ten years old be accepted toward a master's degree.

2. Doctoral Degree.

a. All degree requirements beyond the master's must be completed within ten calendar years from the date of admission to the doctoral program.

b. No course work beyond the master's degree which is over ten years old at the time the doctoral degree is conferred can be used toward the doctoral degree.

c. The degree can be conferred no sooner than eight months after admission to candidacy.

References: Prior ETSU Policy B-76; Procedure A11.42

Contact for Interpretation: Dean of Graduate Studies and Research