by veriste » Thu Sep 10, 2015 12:08 pm
Hi! I recently passed my prelim exam and am now officially a PhD candidate, but the big asterisk on my passing was that my committee wants me to look in to extending my deadline to graduate. SMART only provides 4 years 9 months before I MUST graduate (according to the way things were run for my cohort year), and that's obscenely fast for my program, which has an average graduation time of 6 years. Does anyone know what happens if I don't graduate on time? Of course, according to the handbook, they claim I owe 10 years of my life to the DoD instead of 5, which is a pretty insanely long time to lock yourself into a specific job. Trying to guarantee a graduation date from a PhD program is pretty wildly optimistic in the first place. Has anyone else run into this issue, and what happened? Help please!
Hi! I recently passed my prelim exam and am now officially a PhD candidate, but the big asterisk on my passing was that my committee wants me to look in to extending my deadline to graduate. SMART only provides 4 years 9 months before I MUST graduate (according to the way things were run for my cohort year), and that's obscenely fast for my program, which has an average graduation time of 6 years. Does anyone know what happens if I don't graduate on time? Of course, according to the handbook, they claim I owe 10 years of my life to the DoD instead of 5, which is a pretty insanely long time to lock yourself into a specific job. Trying to guarantee a graduation date from a PhD program is pretty wildly optimistic in the first place. Has anyone else run into this issue, and what happened? Help please!