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Time Limitations on Completion of Degree Requirements
Students who are enrolled as graduate students at the University of Houston must complete the usual master's degree program within five years of the date of enrollment at the University of Houston campus. Transfer credit may not apply to any master's degree if the course credit is more than five years old at commencement.Students who enroll as doctoral candidates must complete their degree requirements within ten years of the date of first enrollment with a doctoral degree objective. Failure to comply will result in the candidate being ineligible for that doctoral degree.
Doctoral students who fail to complete their dissertation within five years after completion of the comprehensive examination must retake the examination.
With the exception of programs for which another termination date has been specified, no degree will be granted for a graduate program not completed within five years of its deletion from an issue of the University of Houston catalog.