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<blockquote data-quote="forensicbuzz" data-source="post: 974187" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>Doctoral student. Once he's passed the qualifiers and is working on his dissertation, he will be a Ph.D. (Doctoral) candidate.</p><p></p><p>At Tech, you can be a doctoral student if you've been accepted into the doctoral program for whatever school you've been admitted to. Most times, when the student goes straight into a doctoral program, they receive a terminal master's degree if they don't pass their qualifying examinations.</p><p></p><p>My personal feeling is that qualifying examinations are hazing and should not be part of the program. If the classes and the undergraduate academic record are not sufficient to qualify a student as a candidate, then there's something wrong with the program. The incessant need to require the current student to pass some rigorous examination to show they have the requisite knowledge when they just passed 30-45 credit hours of graduate course study is ludicrous. Make the classes count and flush a student if they can't hack the coursework. A superfluous examination by individual faculty members is an arbitrary and unnecessary qualification.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="forensicbuzz, post: 974187, member: 198"] Doctoral student. Once he's passed the qualifiers and is working on his dissertation, he will be a Ph.D. (Doctoral) candidate. At Tech, you can be a doctoral student if you've been accepted into the doctoral program for whatever school you've been admitted to. Most times, when the student goes straight into a doctoral program, they receive a terminal master's degree if they don't pass their qualifying examinations. My personal feeling is that qualifying examinations are hazing and should not be part of the program. If the classes and the undergraduate academic record are not sufficient to qualify a student as a candidate, then there's something wrong with the program. The incessant need to require the current student to pass some rigorous examination to show they have the requisite knowledge when they just passed 30-45 credit hours of graduate course study is ludicrous. Make the classes count and flush a student if they can't hack the coursework. A superfluous examination by individual faculty members is an arbitrary and unnecessary qualification. [/QUOTE]
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