Doctoral Students

Doctoral students must comply with all policies, procedures and requirements of the Graduate School and of their academic programs. Students are encouraged to reach out to their academic program as early as possible to ensure they have ample time to learn about and to meet their academic program’s requirements for dissertations or terminal doctoral research projects.

PhD Students

• View Thesis and Dissertation for Graduate School requirements. 
• View OU's important dates calendar for the semester in which you intend to Defend and check that semester’s Graduate School thesis/dissertation deadlines.
  • Last day to defend thesis/dissertation
  • Last day to have received Format Approval of your thesis/dissertation
  • Last day to have completed all Graduate School requirements regarding your thesis/dissertation

Professional or Practice-based Doctoral Students

• Professional or practice-based doctoral programs culminate in the completion of a terminal doctoral research project. The terminal doctoral research project may be qualitative or quantitative in nature and can include (but is not limited to) randomized clinical trials, intervention studies, comparison studies, single subject methods, meta-analytic designs, integrative literature reviews, or other discipline specific projects demonstrating excellence. 
• Professional or practice-based doctoral students must carefully check individual disciplines for specific graduate program terminal doctoral research project requirements.