Course Credit Requirements

2021-07-15

Full-time students with an M.S. degree enrolled in the TBSI Ph.D. Program are required to take a minimum of 20 units of coursework; Full-time students without an M.S. degree enrolled in the TBSI Ph.D. Program are required to take a minimum of 30 units of coursework; Ph.D. students who were a Tsinghua postgraduate student immediately prior to enrolling in TBSI’s Ph.D. program follow the same credit requirements as the Ph.D. students without a Master’s degree.


PhD student with MS degreePhD student without MS degree
   Common Mandatory Courses45
Capstone11
Professional development22
Mandatory Session44
Technical Courses918

For Full-time students with an M.S. degree enrolled in the TBSI Ph.D. Program, all Ph.D.-level courses previously taken at TBSI may be transferred to the Ph.D. program. For non-TBSI Tsinghua courses taken during the postgraduate period immediately prior to enrolling in TBSI's Ph.D. program, they may be transferred to the Ph.D. program with no more than 4 technical courses and up to 9 credit units (at most 6 major units and at most 3 minor units).