Submission of Thesis for Doctorate degree for Fall semester, 2017
(2018 August Graduation)
Those who are scheduled to graduate in August 2018 have to submit the
thesis for degree within the designated period below. This is to notify you
of information about thesis for Doctorate degree for Spring semester, 2018.
1. Period of submitting the thesis and paying thesis review fee : April.
5th(Thurs) ~ April. 11st(Wed), 2018
2. Payment of Thesis review fees
- Thesis review fee: 550,000 KRW
- Account of payment for thesis review: Virtual Payment Account
of each department office (Contact Department office)
- Please pay the fees with your name (Applicant’s name)
3. Submission of Thesis: Application through Website, then Submit the
required documents to Department Office.
1) Application procedure on the website
: Login to Aims2 portal website – Academic Information for
Graduate School– Graduation (on the top) – Register Thesis Plan (on the left
side) – Input the title of thesis (Korean and English) – Print out the form
of “Petition for Review of Thesis for Doctorate Degree” (Submit it to Department
office) – Click “Registration of dissertation publication” - Upload the
materials of dissertation publication – Print out the form of Confirmation
Letter of Dissertation Publication (Submit it to Department office)
2) Required Documents to submit to the Department office
- Petition for review of thesis for doctorate degree
- List of review members for thesis for doctorate degree
- Recommendation letter of external review member
- Personal Resume (Free style)
- Research Ethics Compliance Statement
- Confirmation Letter of Dissertation Publication (Attach a copy
of the cover page of Dissertation)
* Applicants who are scheduled to submit the Certificate
of Expectant Publication of academic article have to submit a copy of the cover
page of the dissertation within the period of review.
* Recognition Criteria of expectant publication
: Applicants have to submit the Certificate of the Expectant
Publication issued from applicable academy. Only in the case that students
can’t submit it within the designated period owing to unavoidable
circumstances, they can submit the Confirmation Letter from their academic
advisor in place of certificate of the expectant publication, but they have
to submit the certificate of expectant publication before the date of
graduation examination. If they do not submit it within the expected period
before the date of graduation examination, they will not be allowed to
graduate from school automatically in the applicable semester.
3) Required documents to submit to thesis review members
- Thesis for review for each review member
- Personal Resume for each review member (Free Style)
* Thesis title must be written in English and Korean. (In the
case of a thesis written in English, applicants can write the English Title
on thesis for degree.)
4. Qualification and Organization of thesis review members
1) Thesis review members for Doctorate degree must be composed at
least 5 people with Doctorate degrees (including 3 Full-time professors of
the said university and 1 external review member [available experts or
external professor])
2) Associate Professors or Assistant Professors of the Medical
Department with Doctorate degrees can be Internal Thesis Review Members
(Full-time professors).
3) Professors in the applicable department have to be appointed
preferentially as internal paper screening judges, and internal thesis review
members can include professors of related fields.
4) A majority of thesis members has to be composed of those who majored
in the same field of study related to thesis contents.
5) In the case that the applicant is a lecturer in the said
university, a Full Professor or Associate Professor with a doctorate degree
who studied in the same major field and has the same position in the said
university as the applicant can be a paper screening judge.
6) The Academic Advisor of the applicant can automatically be a thesis
review member as long as there are no special circumstances.
7) The Chairman of a thesis review committee will be selected from
among the thesis review members, excluding the academic advisor.(The external
thesis review member can be a chief of thesis screening committee only in
case that he/she has enough professionalism on the subject of the thesis)
8) Applicants relatives may not become thesis review members.
9) If a professor in a research year can participate in all processes
of paper screening, they will be eligible to be a thesis review member, even
though they are not teaching at that time.
5. Notices and Forms regarding submission of thesis for Doctorate
degree: Please refer to the attached files (All forms for submission)
1) Qualification for submission of thesis : Any student who satisfied
the following conditions
- A student who has completed or is scheduled to complete the
doctorate course
- A student who received formal advisement on a thesis for two
or more semesters
- A student who completed nonsubject education based on research
study (From the New students who entered after 2014)
▶ Nonsubject Education program based on
research study
• From the New students who entered after 2014
• Research Ethics : at least twice or more
• Research Note Writing : at least once (Only for
students majoring in Natural Science and Engineering fields)
• Thesis writing : at least once or more
- A student who passed the qualifying examination (Foreign
language test and comprehensive examination)
- A student who has less than 10 years in the doctorate program
after admission (excluding the period of leave of absence from school)
- A student who has completed all required credits for
graduation and registered research registration
- A student who has published or is scheduled to publish the
contents of thesis for degree in related academic article (Departmental
conditions have priority over graduate school conditions)
▶ Doctorate course
• Science and Engineering fields: 2 domestic
articles or 1 overseas article
• Medical Department: 2 or more domestic articles or
overseas articles published in NRF journals or journals of equal ranking
• Biomedical Department: 2 or more overseas articles
published in SCI journals or journals of equal ranking (including SCI
journals and SCIE journals)
• Humanities and Social Science fields: 1 or more
domestic articles or overseas articles
▶ Integrated course
• Science and Engineering Fields: 1 or more overseas
articles
• Medical Department: 2 or more domestic articles or
overseas articles published in NRF journals or journals of equal ranking
• Biomedical Department: 2 or more overseas articles
published in SCI journals or journals of equal ranking (including SCI
journals and SCIE journals)
• Humanities and Social Science fields: 2 or more
domestic articles or 1 or more overseas articles
※ Dissertation Publication means the
thesis that is published in an academic journal after entering the doctorate
courses. Dissertation Publication is only recognized in the case of an exact
match between contents of the thesis for degree and contents of a publication
in an academic journal.
2) Required Documents for submission of thesis
- Petition for review of thesis for Doctorate degree
* Submit a paper copy of the Petition form after
uploading it on the AIMS2 portal website.
- List of thesis review members
- Recommendation Letter of External Review member
- Personal Resume (Free style)
- Confirmation Letter of Dissertation Publication
* Submit the confirmation letter of dissertation publication
after uploading on AIMS2 Portal.
- A copy of the cover page of the dissertation
* In the case that the thesis is expected to be
published, applicants have to submit the Certificate of Expectant Publication
for the academic article, and the cover page of the thesis for degree.
* Applicants who are scheduled to submit the
Certificate of Expectant Publication have to submit a copy of the cover page
of the dissertation within the period of review.
- 5 copies of thesis for review
* Submit the 5 copies of thesis for review to the
review members directly.
- Research Ethics Compliance Statement
6. Detailed Schedule for submission of thesis
Classification
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Period
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Remarks
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Submission of thesis for degree
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April, 5th(Thur) ~ April, 11th (Wed),
2018
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- Pay thesis review fees (550,000 KRW) to Virtual Account of
Department (Contact Department office)
- All documents to submit need to have signature of Academic Advisor
and confirmation from Head of Department
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Payment of thesis review fees
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Recommendation of thesis review members
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Paper screening
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April, 12th(Thur) ~ June, 21st(Thur), 2018
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- Paper screening once or more.
- Final Screening should be public.
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Submission period of final review result
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June. 22nd(Fri), 2018
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Required Documents
- Final result report of Thesis Screening
- Certificate of checking plagiarism of dissertation and related
materials
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Submission of final printed copy
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June, 25th(Mon) ~ July. 6th(Fri), 2018
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- If a student does not submit the final printed copy of thesis within
designated period, he or she will be excluded from the list of graduation.
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▶ Applicants must submit the final
printed copy of thesis to Central Library in Ajou University.
▶ For more detailed information, please
refer to the rules of graduate school of the said university and contact each
department office.
- Office of Graduate School -
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