Complete your Ph.D. program without doing any courses or have your course load reduced

Rule 73.1.2: Upon recommendation of his/her program’s graduate studies committee, a student holding a graduate diploma and having a relevant training comprising courses at the graduate level (or the equivalent), can request to be exempted from part or all the course credits of his/her doctorate program (with the exception of ING 6900 unless the student has taken it at the master’s level or previously  passed an equivalent course). A similar exemption can also apply in the case of a student who already has another doctorate degree.

Exempted courses must be approved by the research supervisor. The number of credits to be completed within the framework of the candidate’s doctoral studies is determined according to the number of exempted credits. The doctorate consists of a total of 90 credits; the difference in terms of credits is allotted to the conduct of the project and the writing of the thesis.

Such an exemption must be granted before the student’s first registration in the doctorate program, or at the latest, at the end of the first semester of his/her doctoral studies. The present article’s does not exempt the student from taking the comprehensive exam. The latter must be taken according to the rules enunciated in article 75.