Exams

Graduate students are required to take an exam.  Two exams must be completed on the exam page to clear it on the requirement audit page.  

• Degrees have changed over the years, and we now have professional degrees that have capstone projects that encompass their exams, so they are considered coursework-only degrees and to not require the exam page. 
• Master's degree requires at least one exam
• Master's comprehensive exam
• Project/Non-thesis exam
• Thesis defense
• If only one exam is required by your department, then the second exam will need to be selected as not required and save.  This way two exams have been selected and the requirement audit page will read as complete.
• Ph.D. must have both
• Qualifying Exam that advances them on the candidacy for the Ph.D.
• Dissertation defense

For Fall 2022 "Target Date" is November 18, 2022.  If the submission is passed this date the graduate student must reapply for the following semester to graduation.

 

Thesis and Dissertation students are required to defend by the Final Exam periods of the semester and will graduate the following semester.  If for some reason the Supervisory committee cannot meet during this Final Exam period and are willing to work beyond the required Final Exam deadline, they can use the "grace period" between semesters to have the graduate student defend.      

• As long as the graduate student has enrolled the semester before and defense during the "grace period" For example, a graduate student was enrolled for Fall 2022 and defends between December 17-January 8^th ("grace period" between Fall 2022 & Spring 2023).
• Does not defend into the next semester.  For example, Spring 2023 classes begin on January 9th, the graduate student would be required to be enrolled in order to defend

 

If you have any questions, please reach out to darci@gradschool.utah.edu or 801-585-9873