UNITEN POSTGRADUATE ACADEMIC INFORMATION

ACADEMIC REGULATIONS - IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Please see ACADEMIC REGULATIONS document (15 pages)
• Discussed program structures, the registration, course offerings, candidature, conversion, credit transfer, withdrawal and deferment, graduation, academic integrity.
• PhD credit is 72, Masters credit is 40 
• Students can only register one program in UNITEN and cannot register elsewhere
• Research PhD and Masters: Full time student must be on campus at least 2 semesters per year, Part-time student need to be on campus at least 1 semester during study and 10 working days per semester
• Masters (B) and (C): Must take at least 1 course of 3 credits in semester 1 and 2
• Students need to register each semester otherwise university can terminate unless students apply for deferment
• Late registration - the penalty is culculated daily upto maximum RM300
• Credit transfer is possible for 50% of total credits
• Important to read the procedure for withdrawal, deferment and termination 

THESIS GUIDELINES

• Please see THESIS GUIDELINES document (44 pages)
• Discussed on General requirement of a thesis, the format and  writing conventions
• All thesis shall be in English
• To submit thesis, (a) Notify (b) Submit for format checking (c) Submit
• Final submission of approved thesis after viva is 3 copies (hardbound) and 1 copy on CD
• Thesis must be 1 sided, A4, 80g, 150K words for PhD, 100K words for Masters (A), 70K words for Masters (B) and 50K words for Masters (C)
• Compliance: Typeface, fontsize, margins, spacing, pagination, paragraphs, binding, spine, cover (PhD - black, Masters (A) - Maroon, Masters (B) - dark Blue
• Format: Preliminary (title, declaration, abstract, ack, TOC, LOT, LOF, LOS, LOA, LOG, LOP, Text (all chapters), Ending (references, appendices, publications)

FORMS

STRUCTURE A & B (except for Form COGS 12)

• COGS 11A Nomination of Thesis Supervisory Committee (PhD and Masters)]\
• COGS 11B Renomination of supervisors
• COGS 12 Graduate Research Progress Report (Structure A only)
• COGS 16 Notice of Thesis Dissertation Submission
• COGS16A Conformity of Thesis Format
• COGS17 Confirmation of Thesis Dissertation Submission
• COGS 20 Confirmation of Thesis Amendment