Milestone Info & Forms

Degree Planning

The Degree Plan identifies the courses that you will complete to fulfill the requirements for your degree.  The Graduate Planning & Audit System is used to track the requirements and policies that a student must satisfy in order to graduate. GPAS consists of two parts that work together – the interactive planner and audit or advisement report. The planner allows a student to map out the coursework they plan to complete while finishing their degree(s). The audit will show which courses, in real-time, have been completed, what a student is planning on taking, and what gaps are left to complete a degree. You only need to add coursework to the planner that you plan on taking in the future – the audit will track already completed coursework and requirements.

You can begin using the planner your first semester in the program to plan your courses.  See handbook for further information and timeline for submitting the degree plan in GPAS. Step-by-step instructions are available to complete and submit the GPAS.

Contact the GPC, Lori Boucher, if you would like to meet to review your GPAS.

Degree Planning Resources

• Graduate Planning & Audit System (GPAS)

• Degree Completion Steps

• Ed Psych Internal Petition form for course substitutions and transfer courses

• Add a Master’s Degree to Doctoral Program

• Add or remove a graduate minor

Changing Advisor(s)

The Department considers advisor changes to be a customary practice in higher education. As such, graduate students may change their advisor(s) at any time. To do so, students should identify and obtain permission from a new advisor who has capacity to take them on as a student. Students should notify their current advisor of the change. 

To record the change with their program and the Graduate School, students should email the Graduate Program Coordinator (Lori Boucher) and their program assistant detailing the advisor change. The new and former advisor(s) should be cc’d on the email for notification of the change.

Readmission & Change of Status

• Graduate School Change or Add a Degree Objective page

• Psych Foundations & QME Readmission & Change of Graduate Status form 

Exams

Committees

• Program tracks may have an examination committee for written comprehensive examinations.  Contact your advisor for further information. 

• Graduation Education Faculty Role List - verify that faculty have Graduate Education Responsibilities (GER) in the major field and/or minor/outside of the major field to be eligible to serve on your preliminary oral and final exam committees

• Submit the preliminary or final oral exam committee

• Committee Exception Request for External Committee Member

Written Prelim Exam

• Written Prelim Registration form

  • Psych Foundations written prelim exam information

  • Special Education written prelim study guide

  • QME written specialty exam completion form

  • QME predissertation research project completion form 

• Checklist for Showing Completion of Written Prelim

Preliminary and Final Exams

• MA and Specialist Certificate Exams are scheduled with the advisor & committee. No forms to register with Graduate School. 

• Schedule doctoral oral exams

  • Psych Foundations oral prelim exam information

• Ed Psych Procedures for Remote Examinations

• Required Conditions and Best Practices for Remote Participation in Graduate Examinations

• Graduate Examination Emergency Committee Substitution Procedure for the day of the exam

Thesis

• Doctoral Thesis Credit Registration Request form to request approval for thesis credits prior to completion of the oral prelim

• Thesis Planning Panel form for Prospectus Meeting which should be held the semester following completion of the oral prelim

• Ed Psych guidelines for a multiple paper thesis

• Thesis/dissertation formatting and submission Review page for University of Minnesota formatting and submission guidelines