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 Regulations
for the PhD Degree
- The PhD Degree is a research degree and shall be awarded on
the basis of a thesis.
- It is normally open to students with at least and Upper Second
Class honours degree who have completed appropriate Post-graduate qualification or who are
on transfer from the MPhil research degree.
- A candidate may be required to attend courses during the
period of registration. He/she may be required to write examination. Such
requirements must be approved by the Faculty Sub-Committee at the time of registration of
the student.
- A candidate registered for full-time studies will be required
to present a thesis on an approved subject not less than 6 semesters, and not more than
six calendar years after full registration.
- Part-time candidates shall be required to present their thesis
not less than 8 semesters and not more than eight calendar years after full registration.
- The length of the thesis shall be in accordance with
specifications laid down by the Departments of the Faculty, but shall not exceed 80,000
words excluding footnotes and appendices. The Board for Graduate Studies may in
special circumstances give permission for its limit to be exceeded.
- A thesis will not be deemed adequate unless:
A candidate for the PhD will be required to take an oral
examination on a general field of study and on the thesis submitted. Wherever
possible, the External Examiner should be present at the oral examination. In his
absence, his written report shall be made available to the examiners present.
- A candidate, after consideration of his thesis by the
Examiners and after oral examination may be
-
recommended to Senate for the award of the degree
- required to re-submit the thesis within 18 months
- required to re-submit his thesis and repeat the oral
examination and one subsequent occasion within eighteen (18) months from the
decision of the Board for Graduate Studies.
- required to make corrections to thesis within six (6)
months from the decision of the Board for Graduate Studies.
- failed outright.
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Regulations for Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
Degree
The MPhil Degree is a research degree and
shall be awarded on the basis of a thesis:
It is open to students with at least an Upper
Second Class Honours Degree.
A candidate who does not satisfy this
requirement may be admitted in the first instance as a qualifying student, and must
satisfy specified requirements before being finally admitted to the MPhil Degree.
A candidate may be required to attend courses
and or seminars and pass specified departmental examinations. Such requirements for
each candidate shall be determined by the department and must be approved by the Faculty
Sub-Committee at the time of registration of the student.
A candidate registered for full-time studies
shall be required to present a dissertation on an approved subject not less than 6 terms
and not more than five (5) full calendar years after registration.
Part-time candidates shall be required to
present their dissertation not less than 9 terms and not more than seven (7) calendar
years after registration.
The length of the dissertation shall be in
accordance with specifications laid down by the departments of the Faculty but should not
normally exceed 50,000 words excluding footnotes and appendices.
A candidate will normally be require to take
an oral examination on the general field of study and on the dissertation. If the
External Examiner is unable to be present at the oral examination his written report
should be made available to the other examiners at the oral examination. Exemption
from the oral examination will be at the discretion of the Faculty Sub-Committee for
Graduate Studies on the recommendation of the Examiners.
A candidate, after consideration of his
dissertation by the Board of Examiners and, where relevant, the oral examination may be -
- recommended to Senate for the award of the
degree
- required to re-submit the dissertation and
repeat the oral examination on one subsequent occasion within 18 months from the decision
of University Board for Graduate Studies or
- failed outright.
Regulations for Master of Science (MSc)
Degree
In the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Master of Science
degree will normally be awarded on the basis of a written examination or of a written
examination and thesis in one of the disciplines of Economics, Government or Sociology as
set out in the detailed regulations below. It is not intended that the papers or
fields of specialization listed should have detailed syllabuses. The examiners shall
be at liberty to test any candidate by awarded the degree on the basis of the thesis, but
in such cases candidates shall always be required to satisfy the examiners in a viva voce
examination or by a written test that they have an adequate general knowledge of the
subject.
Candidates may be given permission to take an examination for
the degree consisting of papers chosen from more than one of the subject areas of
Economics, Government, Management Studies and Sociology, with or without a thesis, the
precise combination of papers or of papers and the thesis being approved in each case by
the Board of the Faculty.
The MSc Degree in Economics
The MSc in Economics shall be awarded on the following
basis:
Examinations in:
Four (4) compulsory half-courses:
(1) Microeconomic Theory
(2) Macroeconomic Theory
(3) Quantitative Methods I
(4) Development Policy and Planning
AND
(i) A short Dissertation Research
Project, and
(ii) An examination in any FOUR (4) half courses chosen from among the
following:
(a) industrial Organization
(b) Macroeconomic Policy
(c) International Trade Theory and
Policy
(d) Quantitative Methods II
(e) Advanced Econometrics
(f) Public Sector
Economics
(g) Agricultural
Economics
(h) Monetary Economics
(i) International
Finance
(j) Labour
Economics
(k) any other approved course
N.B. In special circumstances, students may be permitted to
follow the MSc programmed as approved for the Mona Campus (See Mona Handbook) |