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Time Limits on Completion of Requirements
A graduate student in a master's or specialist program must complete all degree requirements within a period of six consecutive years and in a doctoral program within a period of eight consecutive years. Time limits shall be computed from and including the first term in which credit applied to the degree is earned. When coursework taken at Tennessee Technological University has expired according to the established time limits for completing a graduate program, the academic unit may allow the student to validate that coursework by examination. See Course Validation.
If a masters degree student has not graduated by the end of his/her initial 18 semesters (24 semesters for a doctoral student) and has not been granted special approval to continue to take graduate courses and satisfy requirements within the most recent 18 semesters (or 24 semesters for a doctoral student), the student’s status will change to nondegree graduate student and all regulations pertaining to nondegree graduate students will apply. When the change to nondegree status occurs, the student’s graduate committee will be considered to be dissolved and the special responsibilities of the faculty member who chaired the committee are terminated. Nondegree students will not be eligible to register for thesis/dissertation credit.
If the student subsequently reapplies and is admitted as a degree-seeking master's or doctoral student, the time limit for completion will be computed in the same way as for others, with the period beginning with the first term in which credit applied to the degree is earned. At readmission, the student’s committee is not reinstated; instead, the usual procedures for forming a committee are to be followed.
All requirements for the degree must be completed in six years, or eight years in programs that require 36 hours or more. Courses older than these limits will not be allowed as credit toward the master's degree.
There are no exceptions to program time limits. However, students may request the option of validating old courses as described in the Course Validation section of this catalog.
Grades earned in courses that are older than program time limits will be shown on the transcript but will not be included in the computation of the GPA for graduation purposes.
Page last updated: 11/1/07
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