Biomedical Informatics
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Program Graduation Requirements
The PhD degree constitutes approximately 30-40 hours of formal class work with a grade of B- or better.
Students are required to maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher throughout the program.
A PhD student must pass a written and oral Comprehensive Exam after the first year of study.
Graduate work at this or other institutions, including courses taken for a MS degree, may be applied to the PhD coursework requirement at the discretion of the student's advisory committee.
After completion of coursework, the student must pass a PhD written and oral Qualifying Examination.
In addition to the classwork, 14 or more hours of research (taken as BMI 7970) are required. This work must lead to the completion and defense of an original PhD dissertation demonstrating the student's capabilities to conceive and execute an independent research project.