Gainesville,
FL,
United States
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
Earning a Ph.D. demands 90 credit hours, potentially incorporating 36 credits from the M.A. program, extra 6000-level coursework, 3 proposal research credits, 12 doctoral research credits, along with creating and defending a dissertation. Ph.D. candidates typically gain experience teaching undergraduate classes with faculty guidance while also serving as Teaching Assistants for various courses.
Students beginning without an M.A. should anticipate five years (ten semesters) of full-time study to complete the Ph.D., while those entering with a philosophy M.A. can expect four years (eight semesters) of full-time enrollment to finish the program.