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    Dec 01, 2024  
2024-2025 Augusta University Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Augusta University Catalog

Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Nursing (Term by Term)


Notes:

  • The PhD curriculum is not lock-step; students do not graduate as a class at the end of a specific semester. A minimum of three years full-time attendance (at least 9 credit hours per semester) or four years part-time attendance (less than 9 credit hours per semester) is required.
  • Order of courses may vary.
  • Students take NURS 9250  from the third semester in the program until they officially enter candidacy; then they take NURS 9300  for 3-9 hours each semester until graduation. A minimum of 18 dissertation credit hours (NURS 9300 ) is required over 2 semesters.
  • The student’s advisory committee may require more than the minimum number of elective credit hours in the student’s area of concentration (AOC).  The AOC minimum is 17 elective credit hours, with 15 hours being in the student’s AOC. AOC courses include: NURS 9240  and NURS 9020 .
  • Students can request approval for transfer of up to 9 credit hours of doctoral level courses into the PhD program.

Full-Time Study


Year One


Year Two


Year Three


Semester One: 9 Hours


Semester Two: 9 Hours


Semester Three: 9 Hours


Part-Time Study


Year One


Year Two


Year Three


Year Four


Semester One: 7 Hours


Semester Two: 7 Hours


Semester Three: 7 Hours


Degree Total: 81 Hours