{"id":6368,"date":"2024-06-21T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/?page_id=6368"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:41:15","slug":"phd-milestones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/resources\/student-resources\/phd-resources\/phd-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ph.D. is taken with special emphasis in one of the following programmatic areas: Brain, Behavior &amp; Cognition (BBC); Clinical (C); Developmental Science (DS). Time allowed to complete the following requirements for the Ph.D. is seven years from the student\u2019s date of entry into the program. Students must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher and have no more than two failing grades (lower than a B-or an incomplete grade older than 12 months) in order to complete the degree.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Milestones for completion of requirements for each program:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n<h4><span>Brain, Behavior &amp; Cognition<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Course Requirements: 4 semesters (2 years)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Qualifying Examination: 6 semesters (3 years)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Thesis Prospectus: 8 semesters (4 years)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Thesis Defense: 12 semesters (6 years)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span>Developmental Science<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Course Requirements: 6 semesters (3 years)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Qualifying Examination: 6 semesters (3 years)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Thesis Prospectus: 8 semesters (4 years) [may petition the Program Director for an extension of up to 2 semesters]<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Thesis Defense: 10 semesters (5 years)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span>Clinical<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Second Year Research Project (2 years)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Course Requirements (3 years)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Qualifying Examination\/Profile (3 years)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Thesis Prospectus (4 years)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Internship (5 years)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Thesis Defense (6 years)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please see the <a href=\"\/psych\/files\/2017\/08\/GradHandbook.pdf\">Graduate Student Handbook<\/a> and the <a href=\"\/psych\/files\/2017\/08\/Clinical-Handbook.pdf\">Clinical Student Handbook<\/a>\u00a0for detailed information on the specific requirements for each program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ph.D. is taken with special emphasis in one of the following programmatic areas: Brain, Behavior &amp; Cognition (BBC); Clinical (C); Developmental Science (DS). Time allowed to complete the following requirements for the Ph.D. is seven years from the student\u2019s date of entry into the program. Students must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1569,"featured_media":0,"parent":2981,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6868,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6368\/revisions\/6868"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}