{"id":56742,"date":"2021-11-03T09:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/?page_id=56742"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:21:22","slug":"phd-completion-process","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/phd-students\/phd-completion-process\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Completion Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p>As a PhD student, you have spent spend significant time at the URochester taking courses, completing research in your field, completing milestones and are now ready to complete your degree.<\/p>\n<p>The final requirement in earning a PhD degree is the completion and defense of the doctoral dissertation. Understanding the steps and associated deadlines in the dissertation submission and degree conferral process is necessary to establish a successful plan. For complete descriptions of the process, please review the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/4255_Regulations_June_2023_v1.pdf\">Regulations and University Policies Concerning Graduate Students<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The page below is organized by before, during and post-oral defense. Please read the page in it&#8217;s entirety and email questions you have to <a href=\"mailto:UnivGradEducation@UR.Rochester.edu\">UnivGradEducation@UR.Rochester.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations! As a PhD student, you have spent spend significant time at the URochester taking courses, completing research in your field, completing milestones and are now ready to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"parent":61636,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56742","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56742"}],"version-history":[{"count":93,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73052,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56742\/revisions\/73052"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/graduate-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}