Submission of Thesis for Master's degree for Spring, 2015 (2016 February Graduation)

 

Those who are scheduled to graduate in February 2016 have to submit the thesis for degree within the designated period as below. We notify you of information about thesis for Master's degree for Spring semester, 2015.

 

1. Period of submitting the thesis and paying tuition review fee : Nov. 5th(Thu) ~ Nov. 11th(Wed), 2015

 

2. Payment of Thesis review fees

  - Thesis review fee : 100,000 KRW

  - Account of payment for thesis review : Virtual Payment Account of each Department (Contact to Department office)

  - Please pay the fees with your name (Applicant's name)

 

3. Submission of Thesis for degree : Application through website, then submit the required documents to department office.

 1) Application procedure on the website

  : Login to Aims2 portal website - Academic Information for Graduate School(대학원학사) - Graduation(졸업)(on the upper side) - Register Thesis plan(on the left side) - Input the title of thesis (Korean and English) - Print out the form of "Petition for review of thesis for Master's degree(석사학위 청구논문심사원)" (Submit it to Department office)

 

 2) Required Documents to submit to the Department office

  - Petition for review of thesis for Master's degree(석사학위 청구논문 심사원)

  - List of Review members for thesis for Master's degree(석사학위 청구논문 심사위원 명단)

  - Recommendation Letter of External review member (석사학위 교외심사위원 추천서) (only for relevant students)

  - Research Ethics Compliance Statement (논문연구윤리 준수확인서)

  - Confirmation Letter of Dissertation Publication(학위청구논문 학회지 게재확인서) : Attach the cover page of reprint(printed copy) from Dissertation (게재논문별쇄본표지 page 첨부) [Only for students who affiliated in Department that clarify the requirements for students to submit the Confirmation Letter of Dissertation publication as a required documents for Dissertation examination]

  - (When scheduled to publication) Certificate of Expectant Publication on academic article : Attach the cover page of the thesis for degree)

 

* Recognition Criteria of Expectant Publication : Applicants have to submit the Certificate of the Expectant Publication issued from applicable academy. Only in case that students can't submit it within the designated period owing to unavoidable circumstances, they can submit the Confirmation Letter from academic advisor in place of certificate of the expectant publication, but they have to submit the certificate of expectanct publication before the date of graduation examination. If they do not submit it within the expected period before the date of graduation examination, they will not be allowed to graduate from school automatically in applicable semester.

 

 3) Required documents to submit to thesis review members

  - Thesis for review for each review members

  * Thesis title must be written in English and Korean. (In case of thesis written in English, applicants can write English Title on thesis for degree.)

  * You can download the forms from our graduate school website. [Click Here! ]

 

4. Qualification and Required documents for submission of thesis

 1) Qualification for submission of thesis : Any students who satisfied the following conditions

  - A student who completed Master's course or scheduled to complete the Master's course : A student who acquired 24 credits in Major and 6 credits in Research and got a GPA 3.0 or better

  - A student who completed registration for 4 or more semesters

  - A student who received the guide(advisement) on thesis for 2 or more semesters

  - A student who passed the qualifying examination (Foreign language test and comprehensive examination)

  - A student who has yet to have 6 years for Master's program after admission (excluding the period of leave of absence from school)

  - A student who completed all courses (took all required credits for graduation) and registered research registration

  - A student who completed nonsubject education based on research study (From the New students who entered after 2014)

   ▶ Nonsubject Education program based on research study (From the new students who entered after 2014)

     · Research Ethics : at least twice or more

     · Research Note Writing : at least once (Only for students majoring in Natural Science and Engineering Fields)

     · Thesis Writing : at least once or more

 

 2) Required documents for submission of thesis

  - Petition for reveiw of thesis for Master's degree(석사학위 청구논문심사원)

   * Submit the Petition form after uploading on the AIMS2 portal website

  - List of thesis review members (학위청구논문 심사위원명단)

  - Recommendation Letter of External Review member(교외심사위원 추천서) (only for relevant students)

  - 3 copies of Thesis for review(심사용 논문 3부) (Submit the 3 copies of thesis for review to review members directly)

  - Research Ethics Compliance Statement (논문연구윤리 준수확인서)

  - Confirmation Letter of Dissertation Publication(학위청구논문 학회지 게재확인서) : Only for students who affiliated in Department that clarify the requirements for students to submit the Confirmation Letter of Dissertation Publication)

  - Cover page of reprint(printed copy) from dissertation(학회지 게재논문 별쇄본 표지page)

   * In case that thesis will be expected to publish, applicants have to submit the Certificate of Expectant publication on academic article and Cover page of the Thesis for degree.

 

5. Detailed Schedule for submission of thesis

Classification	Period	Remarks
Submission of Thesis for degree	Nov. 5th(Thu)  ~ Nov. 11th(Wed), 2015	- Pay thesis review fees (100,000 KRW) to virtual Account of Department (Contact Department office) - All documents to submit needs to have signature of Academic advisor and confrimation from Head of Department
Payment of thesis review fees
Recommendation of thesis review members
Paper screening and Public Announcement	Nov. 12th(Thu)  ~ Nov. 17th(Thu), 2015	- Paper Screening for once or more and Public Announcement at least once (Obligation)
Submission period of Final review results	Dec. 18th(Fri), 2015	[Required Documents] - Final report of Review results - Public Announcment result report - Certificate of checking plagiarism(Similarity) of dissertation and related materials
Submission of Final Printed copy	Dec. 21st(Mon), 2015  ~ Jan. 5th(Tue), 2016	- If students do not submit 4 copies of final printed copy of thesis to Central Library withn the designated period, they will be excluded from the list of graduation.

  - Applicants must submit the 4 copies of Final Printed copy of thesis to Central Library in Ajou University.

  - For more detailed information, please refer to the rules of Graudate school of the said university and contact to each department office.

 

6. Qualification and Organization of thesis review members

 1) Qualification of judges for thesis review

  - In case that the applicant is a lecturer in the said university, Full-time professor or associate professor with doctorated degree who studied in same major field and same position with applicants in the said university can be a paper screening judge.

  - Relatives of the applicant will not become thesis review members.

 

 2) Organization of thesis review members

  - Thesis review members for Master's degree must be composed at least 3 people including 2 Full-time professors of the said university and can be composed of 1 external review member (available experts or external professor) or honorary professor as one of them.

  - Majority of thesis members have to be composed with those who majored in the same field of study related to thesis contents.

  - Academic advisor of applicant can be automatically a thesis review member as long as there are no special reasons.

  - Chairman of thesis review committee will be selected in thesis review members including academic advisor and the external thesis review member can be a chief of thesis screening committee only in case that he/she has enough professionalism on the subject of the thesis.

  * The Professor in research year can be composed as a person who participates in all process of paper screening.

 

7. Notices and Forms for submission of thesis for Master's degree : Please refer to the Attachments (All forms for submission)

 

- Office of Graduate school -