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Regulations and Requirements for Awarding the PhD Degree

The latest regulations and requirements are passed by our Department Assemblies in 2026, download link. The brief summary is listed below:

  1. 1. Complete your program within 2 to 7 years.
  2. 2. Complete 18 credits (excluding the thesis). For students going straight into the PhD program or enrolling with an equivalent qualification, 24 credits are required.

  3. 3. Course requirement:
    1) Need submit a “Plan of Study (POS)”. The related regulation: download link .
    2) Language courses: 
        * Four credits of Language courses must be taken (course code: FE, FL) (not count as part of degree credits).
        * Exemption: passing the Intermediate level of the GEPT within 2 years.
    3) Academic research ethics course:
        * A course in Academic Research Ethics should be taken by the end of first year of studies.
    4) Required subject-specifis courses:
        * Discuss and check with your advisor (if no advisor, with graduate academic counselor).
        * Complete 2 core courses and pass qualifed exams.
        * Complete 4 semesters of seminars.

  4. 4. The requirement of credit transfer:
    1) Must be approval by your advisor.
    2) The grade of the course completed in previous school must be A- or above or an equivalent grade in principle.

  5. 5. Dissertation related requirement:
    1) The subject of dissertation should be confirmed by your advisor.
    2) The research content should be matched expertise of chemical engineering.
    3) Plagiarism check: similarity report of your final draft thesis is required and similarity cannot exceed 30% (How to make a report?).

  6. 6. If admitted after Fall 2025 (including Fall 2025), Doctoral students must have one paper which is accepted or published by international well-known SCI journals (excluding no reward journals and publishers announced by Taiwan Tech), and also, he/she must be the first author and advisor must be corresponding author.

  7. 7. If you fulfil regulations and requirements above and complete your draft of thesis, you may apply for “the PhD Degree Oral Defense Examination”.

  8. 8. You cannot have part-time job in principle.

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