GCAC-701 - Residency Requirement - Professional Doctorate
Purpose
To define residency requirements for residential professional doctorate degrees awarded by Penn State.
Academic Goal
To ensure that for a period of time during their studies, all residential professional doctoral students are immersed in the scholarly life of their disciplinary community.
Scope
All students enrolled in a residential program of study leading to a professional doctoral degree.
Background
Policy Statement
All resident professional doctoral programs must contain a period of
residence to ensure the acquisition of the full scope of knowledge,
skills and professional attributes specific to their discipline.
- Ideally, residence is satisfied by students being registered full-time for at least one semester at the Penn State campus offering the doctoral degree in the student’s graduate major program.
- For part time students, residency can be met by:
- Attending a 5 day on-campus residency; or
- Attending multiple shorter on-campus residencies that combined add to a minimum of 5 days.
- In exceptional cases Graduate Council will consider other approaches to meet this Residency Requirement when accompanied by a clear and compelling justification through the Graduate Council curricular review process.
Further Information
See GCAC-213 Residency and Related Policies for Off-Campus Degree Programs for more information on the philosophy of residency.
Revision History
Approved by Graduate Council, Jan. 20, 2021. Effective date: Fall 2021 (08/16/2021).
- New policy.