National Central University Requirements for the Degree of Ph.D. in Industrial Management

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(We will refer to “National Central University” simply as “the university” and “Graduate Institute of Industrial Management at National Central University” simply as “the institute” hereafter.)

I. Academic Duration and Degree Requirements

1. A Ph.D. student (full-time or part-time) has a minimum academic duration of 2 years (that is, the student must enroll 4 semesters or more) and a maximum duration of 7 years (14 semesters).  A part-time Ph.D. student can extend the duration by another year (to become a total of 8 academic years) if he or she has not completed the required course requirements or the dissertation within the normal 7-year maximum duration.

2. The student must satisfy all course and publication requirements (detailed below).

3. The student must successfully pass the qualifying exam, the proposal exam (i.e. proposing a dissertation topic to his/her doctoral dissertation committee) and defend his/her dissertation.

4. Note that the publication of journal papers is only part of the Ph.D. degree requirements.

II. Course Requirements

1. The student must take courses to collect a minimum of 28 credits (including 4 from seminar courses).  Furthermore, the student must also take at least one course from each “course field” that the course committee at the institute has established.

2. For those students who have never taken the courses designated as required for completing thecurriculum of the institute’s master program (seminar courses are excluded), they must elect and pass those courses during their Ph.D. program at the institute.

3. Refer to “Regulations on Credit Transfer for Students in the Graduate Institute of Industrial Management at National Central University” for transferring course credits earned at other academic institutions.

III. Publication Requirements

1. Ph.D. students must publish at least 2 papers to (partially) fulfill the degree’s requirements.  These papers must be directly related to research that the student has conducted during his or her Ph.D. program at the institute and submitted to academic journals approved by the student’s dissertation advisor.  Furthermore, the student’s affiliation shown on these papers must be the institute.

2. The student and his/her dissertation advisor must be listed as the first or the second author of all these papers.

3. Among the papers published by the student, there must be one paper published in journals that are covered in “Science Citation Index” (SCI) or “Social Sciences Citation Index” (SSCI) citation database, and another paper published in journals covered in “Taiwan’s Social Sciences Citation Index” (TSSCI) or “Engineering Index” (EI) citation database.

IV. Dissertation Advisor

1. All Ph.D. students must choose a dissertation advisor during his/her first enrolled academic year.  This advisor must be an assistant professor, an associate professor or a full professor at the institute.  If the student wishes to switch to a different advisor, the switch must be agreed on paper by both the student’s current advisor and the new advisor, or approved by Institute Affairs Committee.

2. Among those students admitted to the Ph.D. program in the same academic year, at most 2 students can request the same faculty member at the institute to be their dissertation adviser.  Professors at a different department or institute can only serve as a co-advisor of the student (counted as 0.5 students for faculty members at the institute).

3. If a student fails to make satisfactory progress in research, his/her advisor will terminate the relationship in advising that studen

V. Qualifying Exam

1. All Ph.D. students must successfully pass the qualifying exam within the first 8 semesters of their program at the institute; they cannot continue the program if failing to do so.

2. A student can apply for Ph.D. candidateship if he or she has published a paper in journals covered in SCI or SSCI citation database or finished all the course requirements.  Whether the application is approved or not will be subject to the evaluation by the Institute Affairs Committee.

VI. Proposal Exam

1. A student can take the proposal exam only if he or she has become a Ph.D. candidate.

2. All Ph.D. students must successfully pass the proposal exam within the first 8 semesters of their program at the institute; they cannot continue the program if failing to do so.

3. A proposal exam is normally conducted by a committee consisting of 5 to 7 faculty members.

VII. Oral Defense of Dissertation

A Ph.D. student may apply oral defense of dissertation when he or she has completed “III. Publication Requirements.”  Whether the student has fulfilled all degree requirements will be evaluated by an oral defense committee normally consisting of 5 to 7 faculty members.

VIII. For issues not covered by the aforementioned guidelines, they shall be conducted in accordance with the relevant rules/regulations that the university or the Ministry of Education of Taiwan has established.

IX. The aforementioned guidelines shall enter into force upon approval granted by Institute Affairs Committee and (university-level) Academic Affairs Committee.  The same procedure shall apply when amendments are made to these guidelines.