Cambridge University » m.sc http://wemakesites.org Your best High Education Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:12:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Registration as a candidate for the ph.d., m.sc, or m.litt degree http://wemakesites.org/registration-as-a-candidate-for-the-ph-d-m-sc-or-m-litt-degree http://wemakesites.org/registration-as-a-candidate-for-the-ph-d-m-sc-or-m-litt-degree#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:21:00 +0000 admin http://wemakesites.org/registration-as-a-candidate-for-the-ph-d-m-sc-or-m-litt-degree Prospective candidates for the Ph.D., . or M.Litt. are normally admitted for a probationary period in the first instance, either not registered for any qualification at all or registered for an appropriate one-year M.Phil., Diploma or Certificate course. Towards the end of that probationary year the question of your registration as a research degree candidate is considered. The Board of Graduate Studies expect your work up to that point and your intended future programme of research to be rigorously assessed within the Department or Faculty. This assessment may include a formal M.Phil., Diploma or Certificate examination or a formal assessment of progress by the Department or Faculty. One purpose is ensure that your planned research can be completed within the lime available. The outcome of this assessment, and your Supervisor’s report and recommendation on your first year of work, are taken into account by the Degree Committee when considering the question of registration. Supervisors are thereafter required to report annually on your progress.

After the period of probation the Board may register you retrospectively as a candidate for a research degree from the beginning of your course as a Graduate Student or from the beginning of any subsequent term if it would be inappropriate for all or part of your first year to count towards the requirements of the research degree. If all the first year of study is not to be counted towards the research degree you will need to consider carefully the financial resources available to you to cover the rest of your work.

]]> http://wemakesites.org/registration-as-a-candidate-for-the-ph-d-m-sc-or-m-litt-degree/feed 0 Ph.d., m.sc, and m.litt. degrees http://wemakesites.org/ph-d-m-sc-and-m-litt-degrees http://wemakesites.org/ph-d-m-sc-and-m-litt-degrees#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:12:00 +0000 admin http://wemakesites.org/ph-d-m-sc-and-m-litt-degrees The degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) is the ’s principal research degree for graduate students and is available in all Faculties and Departments. If you are a candidate for the Ph.D. you must normally pursue supervised research in residence in for 9 consecutive terms (3 years). The of either Master of Science (.) or Master of Letters (M.Litt.), according to the subject of the research, are also available, and candidates for these must normally complete 6 terms (2 years) of supervised research in residence in .

Candidates for the Ph.D., . or M.Liu, may be required to attend lectures and seminars and prepare formal course work assignments as part of their research training, and in some cases you may be required to take one of the one-year courses for this purpose. The award of the degree is, however, decided solely on the results of your research as presented in a dissertation and on your performance in the oral examination which is held on the dissertation and the general field of knowledge in which your dissertation falls. For research there is no system of awarding grades or credits. Candidates from outside the UK system may find it helpful to know that the oral examination is conducted by two Examiners, no other people are present.

All candidates for the Ph.D., . or M.IJtt. are at present allowed ten terms in which to submit their dissertations, and you are expected by the Board to submit within this timetable.

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