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Ph.D. Degree
The Ph.D. committee needs to have at least three committee members with Ph.D. and Graduate Faculty Status. Additional members could be appointed depending on the research needs. At least one member must be an “outside of department member,” defined by the graduate school as a UMass Five College Graduate Faculty member, not in your department. Members outside the Five College System could be appointed after approval by the Graduate School as Graduate Faculty. With your assistance, your major professor must forward a committee request memo to the GPD for submission to the Graduate School. Your graduate committee is not officially formed until this memo has been sent to the Graduate School and a letter from the Graduate Dean is received by the student. You must have an approved committee before you can submit your dissertation proposal.