Doctoral Credits Breakdown

-Total minimum credits: 60 credits

-Course credits: 12-36 credits – a minimum of 12 credits must be taken at the University of MN

-Thesis credits: 24 credits

-Transfer credits: up to 24 credits

Students are not required to take credits outside of the department or transfer credits in.

All credits for your degree can be CEGE credits.

-Registered while a degree-seeking U of MN student in your program

-Course credits start the first semester of matriculation

-Unique to the graduate program

-Graduate level courses are 5xxx and 8xxx level courses

-Can include 4xxx level course credits subject to the 4xxx rule

-A maximum of nine 4xxx level course credits may be used to satisfy degree requirements

-Partial credits from a course are not accepted

-Thesis credits must be taken at the U of MN

-Thesis credits can only be taken after passing the preliminary oral exam

-Pre-Thesis credits can be swapped to thesis credits

-in the fall or spring semester only

-the prelim oral exam must be taken before or by the last instructional day of the semester

-can only be swapped in the semester in which the prelim oral exam was taken

-see Swapping Pre-thesis credits to Thesis credits

-Non-degree seeking from the University of MN

-Transfer from another institution

-Taken in another graduate program (i.e., credits in common (8))

-Graduate – level credits taken in the undergraduate program*

*(Undergraduate coursework is only allowed if the student is able to provide evidence (in the form of a letter from the undergraduate advisor or university) stating that the course(s) to be transferred (1) was not necessary for the undergraduate degree and (2)that the work done was at a graduate level.)

To use apply transfer courses to your program - there is a form that will be in the forms section that needs to be filled out and signed by your advisor and turned into the graduate programs coordinator along with the unofficial transcript the courses are coming from.