{"id":5898,"date":"2026-02-24T11:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/?page_id=5898"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:05:39","slug":"ph-d-fast-track-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/ph-d-fast-track-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. Fast-track requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Ph.D. Fast-track requirements\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast-track to Ph.D. must be requested within the first year of the master&#8217;s program. The requirements are: (1) demonstrating outstanding academic performance by completing at least 2.5 credits that fulfill the coursework requirements specified in the Master&#8217;s degree requirements, with a CGPA of A- (10.0) or higher, (2) successfully passing the Ph.D. comprehensive exams, and (3) progressing satisfactorily in their research, supported by a reference letter from their thesis supervisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast-track to Ph.D. must be requested within the first year of the master&#8217;s program. The requirements are: (1) demonstrating outstanding academic performance by completing at least 2.5 credits that fulfill the coursework requirements specified in the Master&#8217;s degree requirements, with a CGPA of A- (10.0) or higher, (2) successfully passing the Ph.D. comprehensive exams, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-5898","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5900,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5898\/revisions\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}