After you have completed courses and practica in the health care ethics P.h.D. program, you must pass the comprehensive examinations with an examination board comprised of Saint Louis University ...

In addition to History 600 (Proseminar), all Ph.D. students are required to take either History 781 (Historiography: The Americas), History 783 (Historiography), or History 785 (U.S. Historiography) ...

After completing an approved curriculum of coursework, a student advances to candidacy in Mathematics by passing an comprehensive exam. A description of this requirement can be found on the Degree ...

Students participating in the seminar are organized into study or preparation groups. These groups are designed to encourage the students to share information and approaches to exam preparation. Each ...

The Comprehensive Examination Questions are in essay format. The exam is held from 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on: the ninth Friday of the Fall/Summer semesters (for the 14-week Summer Semester) the ...

The exam is offered twice per year on the weekend starting on the first Friday of November and the third Friday of March (unless that is a major religious holiday weekend). Students have from 8:15 a.m ...

This past August, I sat my doctoral comprehensive exams. It was a grueling, exhausting process, and the months leading up to the exams were some of the most stressful of my life. I don’t think that I ...

I had a math teacher in high school who could be fairly described as abusive. He would cut weak students out of the herd and verbally eviscerate them, as if public excoriation could somehow impart ...

A mechanical engineering PhD degree requires depth of knowledge in the dissertation/research area, as well as breadth of knowledge across the mechanical engineering curriculum. Consequently, the ...

The Comprehensive Exam tests knowledge of graduate-level mathematics. The purpose is to ensure that each student has the necessary knowledge to conduct research in his or her area of concentration.