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 degree | PhD student without MS degree |
| Common Mandatory Courses | 4 | 5 |
| Capstone | 1 | 1 |
| Professional development | 2 | 2 |
| Mandatory Session | 4 | 4 |
| Technical Courses | 9 | 18 |
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).
