Please download the Word document form to your computer desktop to complete and obtain approval signature or e-signature or email approval as needed.
- Directed Study Course Proposal Form
- Exemption Petition from a Required Course or Degree Requirement
- Incomplete Grade Request Form
- Self-Designed Specialization Approval Request Form
- Transfer of Semester Hour Units Petition
Forms for PhD Students
- Step-By-Step Overview of Timing/Actions Needed to Complete Fulfillment of PhD Degree Requirements
- PhD Step 1A of 10 to be completed in your first semester and annually in September thereafter; to access the myIDP website for your myIDP Report submission click this link: myidp.sciencecareers.org
- PhD STEP 1 of 10: Use this myIDP Form to enter the date of completion for your myIDP Report submission and email it to: PhDForms@tufts.edu
- PhD STEP 2 of 10: Annual Progress Report (by July 31 until degree is conferred)
- PhD STEP 3 of 10: Request for Doctoral Qualifying Examination Form (Qualifying Examination Committee assigned by Dean of Educational Affairs - ad interim once form is processed) ** You must attach to the Step 3 of 10 form your completed Specialization Form to help with the assembly of your Qualifying Examination Committee**
- PhD STEP 4 of 10: PhD Qualifying Examination Report
- PhD STEP 4.1 of 10: PhD Qualifying Re-Examination Report
- PhD STEP 5 of 10: Thesis Letter of Intent Form
- PhD STEP 6 of 10 (in conjunction with Step 5): Doctoral Compact
- PhD STEP 7 of 10: Thesis Committee Report - NEW version to use (meeting must take place every four months and approved Thesis Committee Report must be submitted to PhDforms@tufts.edu after each meeting; Thesis Committee meetings continue until student's degree is conferred)
- PhD STEP 8 of 10: Thesis Proposal Defense Report
- PhD STEP 9 of 10: Approval of Thesis for Public Defense for Degree Conferral
- PhD STEP 10 of 10: Doctoral Thesis Defense Report for Degree Conferral