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| A minimum of fifty-seven credit hours are required for the Ph.D. degree apportioned as follows: |
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- A minimum of 30 credit hours of course work corresponding to 10 or more courses is required to fulfill the core program requirement. An additional minimum of 15 credit hours of course work corresponding to 5 or more courses is required to fulfill the area of specialization requirement.
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- A minimum of three credit hours of research culminating in a prospectus for the dissertation is required. Candidates who do not complete their prospectus within the prescribed time will register for an additional three credit hours of prospectus research giving them additional time to complete the work.
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- A minimum of 9 credit hours of dissertation research is required. Candidates will register for 3 credit hours of dissertation research per term while conducting the dissertation research. During these three academic terms, each 3-credit enrollment will be considered equivalent to full-time status.
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- Candidates must register on a Continuing Registration basis upon completion of the 42 credit-hour requirements if they have not completed their dissertation.
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- The minimum of 57 credit hours beyond the Master’s degree presupposes that the applicant’s Master’s degree has been approved by the academic unit managing the UNH Ph.D. as being sufficiently preparatory to that program. In appropriate cases students may be awarded transfer credit to satisfy all or part of the 15 credit hour area of specialization requirement. In such cases the total number of credits required to complete the program would be reduced by the number of transfer credits awarded. However, all students must satisfy the university minimum of 42 credit hours of course work in residence to meet the residency requirement for the doctoral degree.
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- Full-time or part-time study may be pursued, subject to all time and qualitative requirements for the degree being satisfied. However, regardless of the mode of study, a candidate is required to devote at least three consecutive terms, or the equivalent, of full-time study for the dissertation research in residence at the main campus (or at a location appropriate to the dissertation research as approved by the dissertation committee and the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies.)
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