Overview

For more information about the Department of Epidemiology, please visit: http://sph.rutgers.edu/departments/EPID/degrees/phd.html.

At the School of Public Health in New Brunswick and Newark

The Ph.D. degree requires a minimum of 72 credits for completion. Candidates for the degree will be required to pass comprehensive written and oral examinations in major and minor areas (if applicable), as well as complete and defend original dissertation research. Through doctoral-level research, the students will develop expertise on a single topic, design and implement a research project, integrate and interpret complex data, and complete a comprehensive dissertation. Students must plan this carefully. Although the students will work closely with faculty advisers, students bear responsibility for developing research of publishable quality. The curriculum and academic progress of all doctoral students is monitored by a single doctoral committee. The program is designed to be flexible and responsive to the needs of individual students. A specific course of study will be selected by the student in consultation with his or her major faculty adviser and then must be approved by the doctoral committee. Typical programs are detailed within the departments offering doctoral degrees, although individual students may make substitutions with the written approval of the doctoral committee.