1.Two sessions optional for graduate students’ degree examination application in the 2nd semester of the academic year 2021:
The First Session: from Mar. 21 to Mar. 27, 2022.
The Second Session: from Apr. 25 to May 1, 2022.

2.Graduate students enrolled in and after 2017 must finish the Research Ethics Education Online Program and pass the course final exam, getting the certificate of the Research Ethics Education Center before their graduate degree exam application.

3.Graduate students should upload their thesis on our library Turnitin Plagiarism Prevention System for original check and get the similarity report for department assessment. For more Turnitin information, please join the library electronic resource workshop.

4.Graduate school students are required to pass the departmental dissertation/thesis Proposal Hearing no later than three months prior to the dissertation/thesis defense.

5.Applicants please refer to the website https://aura.stust.edu.tw/DegreeApp/login.aspx to complete application procedure and also submit required documents to your departmental or institute office.
Theses/dissertations are to be made public under Article 16 of the Degree Conferral Act. For students who need to delay public release of their theses/dissertations due to confidential or patent matters, or prohibition by law, they should submit the Application for Embargo of Thesis/Dissertation(STUST) with the documentary evidence to their departmental Academic Committee for review. Only with the departmental approval will the public release be postponed.

6.The Master Degree Graduation Examining Committee must consist of three to five members, with minimum of two third of the committee as non- Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology members. If there’s joint advisor for graduate student, advisor should assign one as internal degree examination committee.

7.The Doctoral Degree Graduation Examining Committee must consist of five to nine members, with minimum of two third of the committee as non- Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology members. If there’s joint advisor for graduate student, advisor should assign one as internal degree examination committee.

8.If degree examination committee members ask you to revise your thesis topic, please print out the evaluation form and thesis verification certificate in corrected thesis topic for members scoring and signature. The thesis topic on your degree examination evaluation form and thesis verification certificate should be confirmed and could not be altered.