Graduation Stage of Ph.D.

• Application
• Course Stage
• Proficiency in Ph.D. and Thesis Proposal Stages
• Thesis Stage
• Graduation Stage

Graduation from a PhD Program

The student, whose thesis is decided to be completed by the thesis monitoring committee, writes the thesis in accordance with the format determined by the institute.

       Theses that are approved by the advisor to be prepared in accordance with scientific and ethical rules and thesis writing rules, together with the advisor's petition to the department that the thesis is defensible, the positive opinion of the department chair and the proposal of the thesis defense jury, both electronically (Word) for plagiarism scanning. or in pdf format) as well as in hard copy should be sent to the institute.

The upper limit of the similarity rate in plagiarism screening is 25%.

The PhD thesis defense jury consists of 5 full and 2 substitute faculty members. Three of the permanent members are from the thesis monitoring committee; 2 of them consist of faculty members of the relevant department from outside Trakya University. Both substitute members must be from the relevant department other than Trakya University.

               Following the approval of the thesis defense jury by the Graduate School Administrative Board, the defense exam must be held within 1 month. The prepared thesis, together with the plagiarism report, must be submitted to the thesis defense jury by the student.

Tezi kabul edilen öğrenciler başarılı olarak değerlendirilir. Bu karar Enstitü anabilim dalı başkanlığınca, tez savunma sınavını izleyen üç gün içerisinde, enstitüye tutanakla (Tez savunma jüri tutanağı, kişisel jüri raporları, soru-cevaplar, danışmanın anabilim dalına dilekçesi) bildirilir.

Students whose thesis is accepted are considered successful. This decision is notified to the institute by the Presidency of the Institute, within three days following the thesis defense exam, with a report (thesis defense jury report, personal jury reports, questions and answers, the advisor's petition to the department).

Students whose thesis defense is found unsuccessful and whose thesis is rejected are dismissed from the doctoral program.

       At the end of the thesis defense exam, the student who is given a correction decision must defend his thesis again in front of the same jury by making the necessary corrections within six months at the latest. A student who is also unsuccessful in this defense is dismissed from the doctoral program.

            The student whose thesis is successful must pass the final version of the thesis after the approval of the institute in terms of spelling rules and format, after the thesis defense exam.

Provided that you are successful in the thesis exam and meet the other conditions required for graduation determined by the senate, at least three bound copies of the master's thesis, 1 CD prepared in pdf format, a petition to the institute, documents requested by the library are submitted within one month from the date of taking the thesis exam. The student who submits the thesis to the institute and whose thesis is found appropriate in terms of form is awarded a doctoral diploma. The Institute's board of directors may extend the delivery period for a maximum of one month upon request. Students who do not fulfill these conditions cannot receive their diploma, cannot benefit from student rights, and are dismissed if the maximum period expires.