National Central University Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Industrial Management (Full-time Students)

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

I. Academic Duration and Degree Requirements

1. A master student has a minimum academic duration of 1 year (that is, the student must enroll 2 semesters or more) and a maximum duration of 4 years (8 semesters).

2. The student must satisfy all course requirements and deliver a satisfactory dissertation (detailed below).

3. The student must successfully pass the proposal exam (that is, getting his/her dissertation topic approved by a committee) and the final oral defense (that is, successfully defending the research elaborated in his/her dissertation to the committee).

II. Course Requirements

1. A master student must take courses to collect a minimum of 30 credits for graduation (not including the credits collected from seminars or lab sessions). The student must also take a seminar course each semester in which he or she registers; these seminars account for 1 credit each, and the student only needs to collect no more than 4 such credits during his/her entire master program at the institute. Seminars can be waived for those semesters during which the student was studying at a foreign university for a “dual master’s degree” (jointly offered by the institute and that foreign university). Exchange students are not required to take seminar courses.

2. Among the 30 credits elaborated above, at least 21 must be collected from courses offered by faculty members at the institute or by faculty members at those foreign universities offering a dual master’s degree with the institute. Note that credits collected from seminars or lab sessions do not count! A student must have approval from the director of the institute to take courses offered at other departments/institutes during the first semester of the student’s first enrolled academic year. A student must have approval from his/her dissertation advisor to take courses offered at other departments/institutes starting the second semester of the student’s first enrolled academic year.

3. All students must take and successfully pass both “Regression Analysis” and “Operations Management” courses; moreover, all students are required to take and successfully pass either “Operations Research I” or “Operations Research II” course.

4. Please refer to “National Central University Regulations on Transfer Credits for Students at the Graduate Institute of Industrial Management” for waiving course credits.

5. Please refer to “National Central University Regulations of Dual Degree Programs” for how to pursue a dual master’s degree.

III. Dissertation Advisor

1. A student must choose one of the faculty members at the institute as dissertation advisor by the end of September of his/her first enrolled academic year. A student can also switch to a different dissertation advisor who again must be a faculty member at the institute. But the switch can happen just once and must happen by or before the end of December of the student’s first enrolled academic year. Furthermore, the switch must be approved on paper by both the student’s current advisor and the new advisor, or approved by Institute Affairs Committee.

2. For the students who are admitted into the master program in the same academic year, there is an upper limit as to how many of those students can have the same faculty member at the institute as their dissertation adviser.

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

IV. Proposal Exam

1. A student must obtain approval from his/her dissertation advisor to take the proposal exam.

2. A proposal exam is conducted by a committee of 3 to 5 faculty members (dissertation advisor included).

V. Oral Defense of Dissertation

1. A student may do an oral defense of his/her dissertation 3 months or more after passing the proposal exam (the duration between the proposal exam and the oral defense must be at least 3 months).

2. The oral defense is conducted by a committee of 3 to 5 faculty members (dissertation advisor included).

VI. 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.

VII. 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.