Curriculum framework of doctoral course includes 60 credits with the following structures:
Professional foundation course - 12 credit hours
Specialty courses – 18 credit hours
Research work/dissertation - 30 credit hours
Content of courses and research work in the graduate study program is shown below:
№ | Content structure | Content type |
1. | Foundation courses (Professional foundations) | Research Methodology contains Research methods, formulation of experimental works, search of information, organization of information, online programming processing, calculation, monograph, studies on research articles, presenting papers and writing research papers and so on. Professional compulsory courses should be suited to the standard of researchers’ acquired knowledge in certain science fields. |
2. | Specialty courses | Specialty courses provide contents determined knowledge level standard for researchers. Under the guideline of research supervisor, students can do self studies, present some parts of course content in professional seminars, write course work dividing research work into chapters, do case studies, receive credits by taking exams. Student can choose up to 6 credits from elective courses, which can be involved in specialty course credits. |
3. | Research work | Research and theoretical seminar should be organized under the research advisor and it should be 18 credits for doctoral students. Doctoral dissertation is 12 credits. Doctoral dissertation should be accepted with the sufficient grades of seminars and it takes 12 credits. |
Documents and materials needed for the doctoral defense:
№ | Document’s name |
Application forms and documents related to training | |
1 | Civil service employment application form |
2 | Reference |
3 | Master’s and bachelor’s diploma with its notarized copy |
4 | List of publications |
5 | Order of entrance by the president of MNUE |
6 | Order of research topic and research advisor by the president of MNUE |
7 | List of mark /Related to the students who entered before 2014/ |
8 | Approval form with completion of all courses with their grades /should be printed from the system and verified/ |
9 | Decision of the commission if you correlated to adjust credit. |
10 | Evaluation book for doctorate / Related to the students who entered before 2014/ |
11 | Approval form of full payment of tuition fee /From Office of Financial affairs/ |
Before the doctoral defense | |
12 | Department’s protocol /at least 2/ |
13 | Protocol of pre-defense |
14 | Academic critique of pre-defense /should be 2/ |
15 | Protocol of dissertation re-improvement |
16 | 3 pages of abstract in English or in Russian |
17 | Notification of research advisor |
18 | Statement of relevant school to attend defense |
19 | Request form for defensing dissertation to the Office of Academic Programs of relevant school |
20 | An announcement in the paper or an announcement on the website of MNUE and MECSS |
21 | Official letter of the president of MNUE for sending materials to the National Defense Committee |
22 | The notification and decision of the Academic Council |
After the defense | |
23 | Decision for appointing members of Dissertation Defense Committee |
24 | Verification for sending the dissertation to the members of Dissertation Defense Committee |
25 | Conclusion of Dissertation Defense Committee |
26 | Protocol of Dissertation Defense Committee |
27 | Decision for appointing census commission of Dissertation Defense Committee |
28 | Decision of Census Commission |
29 | Decision of Dissertation Defense Committee’s meeting |
30 | One copy of dissertation is sent to Central Library of Mongolia, Library of National Information and Technology Park and Library of MNUE, respectively. |
31 | 2 recorded CDs |