Ph.D. Requirements

Course Credits

• 6 core courses
• 1 track-specific course
• 1 minor track course
• 1 frontier course
• 4 seminars (Distinguished Lectures in Medical Physics)
• 5 elective courses (including practica)
• 2 professionalism and academic topic courses

Qualifying exam

• Passing a written qualifier exam
• Passing an oral doctoral qualifier exam (prelim)

Thesis

• A doctoral dissertation including dissertation document and defense

Total

• 39 course credits + 1 c.h. frontiers = 40 c.h.
• Duration is 2 years of course work and typically 2-4 years of additional research.