College-Level Graduate Admissions Requirements
Program Requirements
The doctoral degree requires students to complete 64 hours with a master’s degree, and students without a master’s degree will need to complete the 96-hour degree plan. A doctoral candidate together with his or her graduate committee must develop a degree plan that upon completion will demonstrate mastery of advanced knowledge and skills in the chosen area of emphasis. The chosen area of emphasis can be in any of the five research areas:
- Computational methods development
- Medical physics, radiation biology and health physics
- Nuclear fuel cycles and materials
- Nuclear power engineering
- Nuclear security and nonproliferation
View Current Program Requirements
Students must provide justification for listing 1- or 2-hour courses on their doctoral degree plan. Also, undergraduate courses cannot be listed as a part of the degree plan. Students must also pass the department’s qualifying examination to continue in the program as a doctoral candidate. Visit our Qualifying Exam page for more information.
Degree Plan Requirements
DISCLAIMER : Committee chair and student committee in consultation with student define specific PhD courses to support the research.
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Course Name Credits NUEN 1 and Supporting Course Work 2 Strongly Recommended: 8 graduate courses or more
Required: A minimum of 6 graduate courses
Research (NUEN 691) 3 Number of credit hours determined by student's graduate committee Seminar (NUEN 681) 4 hours required Total Credit Hours 64 hrs Notes:
- Nuclear engineering graduate courses that were not included on the student's master's degree plan.
- Graduate courses from outside the department and are typically in a science or engineering subject area.
- The balance among nuclear engineering courses, supporting course work, and NUEN 691 research hours is to the discretion of the student's graduate committee.
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Course Name Credits NUEN 1 and Supporting Course Work 2 Strongly Recommended: 15 graduate courses or more
Required: A minimum of 13 graduate courses
Research (NUEN 691) 3 Number of credit hours determined by student's graduate committee Seminar (NUEN 681) 4 hours required Total Credit Hours 96 hrs Notes:
- Nuclear engineering graduate courses that were not included on the student's master's degree plan.
- Graduate courses from outside the department and are typically in a science or engineering subject area.
- The balance among nuclear engineering courses, supporting course work, and NUEN 691 research hours is to the discretion of the student's graduate committee.