The Road to Graduation
There are several tasks that you will need to complete along your way to earn your PhD. The roadmap is as follows:
Orientation consists of three events:
Orientation - This is usually scheduled for the Thursday before fall classes begin.
Canvas Course - "Scholary Ethics and Integrity Training" - To be complete online before the end of the fall semester.
Plagiarism and Scholarly Ethics Seminar - This takes place in the spring. The graduate coordinator will inform you when it is scheduled.
Together, these three events contribute to your university required scholary ethics and integrity training.
This is usually scheduled for the middle of June: the second Tuesday (Micro), the second Thursday (Macro), and then the third Tuesday (Econometrics).
If needed, a retake will be scheduled for the last week of July.
The graduate coordinator will reach out to you with the paperwork necessary for awarding your MA degree:
1) Plan of Study
2) Application for Degree
3) Request to Admit to Final Exam, MA
4) Exam Card
This is when you will begin establishing your research agenda, so you will meet with the Graduate Committee to check in, prior to establishing your advisory committee.
You will need to review and submit your PhD plan of study, the most important part of which is establishing your advisory committee, the advisor and committee members who will guide and evaluate your research for the remainder of your studies in our program.
This is a practice presentation, based on your current research, to better prepare you for your Preliminary Exam in the spring.
You will defend your Preliminary Exam before the end of the semester.
Once you and your committee have agreed upon a time and date, go to https://ess.graduateschool.vt.edu to submit your Request to Admit to Preliminary Exam
You will collect and present the materials you will use to apply for jobs to both your adivsory committee and the graduate committee for review and feedback.
Job Market Instructions can be found here
This is where you will defend your dissertation.
Once you and your committee have agreed upon a time and date, go to https://ess.graduateschool.vt.edu to submit your Request to Admit to Final Exam