PhD Minor Degree Progress

Requirements for PhD minor

A PhD minor is a program in another department that complements the student’s PhD program. A minor is not a requirement for any degree, but is available when agreed upon by the student and both major and minor departments. It is not available to students pursuing other graduate degrees.

Each department offering a PhD minor establishes the core, elective and examination requirements for the minor program. The major department determines acceptance of the minor as part of the student’s total PhD program. Approval from both the major and the minor departments must appear on the student’s Application for Candidacy for Doctoral Degree. The minor department must be represented on the university oral examination committee.

A student desiring a PhD minor in civil and environmental engineering must have a minor program advisor who is a regular CEE faculty member (member of Academic Council) in the program of the designated sub field. This advisor must be a member of the student’s University oral examination committee and on the reading committee for the dissertation.

The program must include at least 20 units of graduate-level course work (that is, courses numbered 200 or above, excluding special studies and thesis) in CEE completed at Stanford University. Units taken for the minor cannot be counted as part of the 45 unduplicated units for the PhD major. The list of courses must form a coherent program and must be approved by the minor program advisor and the CEE chair. An average LGI of at least 3.0 must be achieved in these courses.