Department of Electrical Engineering

“Master Degree Oral Examination” Important Notice

(revised 2025.05.13)

This announcement is meant for any master students who are going to do oral examination as one of the graduation requirements. Please read all of the important points thoroughly and if you have further inquiries, please come to Department of Electrical Engineering office.

• Oral examination of Spring semester starts from February 1 – July 31, while Fall semester starts from August 1 – January 31.
• Every master student who wishes to take the oral examination before the registration of new semester (early February - beginning of Spring semester or early August – beginning of Fall semester) is required to complete the registration procedures earlier. You could go to Division of Registration website and download all of the required registration form, then fill them out and submit them to the assigned division.
• Regarding the Thesis format, please refer to Division of Registration website and the read the instructions.
• Delay graduation application: for every graduate student who has finished the oral examination and thesis review, yet wishes to take courses abroad, do exchange program, internship, or training has to apply for the upcoming semester to Department, Institute and College, as well as taking at least one course every semester (including Thesis and Research Thesis). Graduation certificate will be given after the end of abroad courses, exchange program, internship or traning and completion of any required extracurricular report or administrative report.

Whoever wishes to delay the graduation date has to proceed the application 1 month before the original graduation date along with the hard copies of abroad courses, exchange program, internship or training.

Eligibility of applying the Master’s Oral Examination:

1. Have passed the “Online Academic Research Ethics Education Course”.

2. Have completed every mandatory and elective courses assigned by the Department.

3. Submit the thesis draft.

Note: You are considered eligible upon completing 1 year of the master program.

Below is the documents and procedures you have to prepare and do in order to apply for Master degree Oral Examination:

1. Please make sure that you have passed the “Online Academic Research Ethics Education Course”.
2. Graduation Credits Confirmation Form for the MS student and Ph.D student of EE NTHU.
3. Proof of Thesis Originality by using Turnitin tool.
4. The report on the research colloboration salary with Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)
5. Please consult to your advisor about the date of your degree examination.
6. After you have confirmed the list of examination committee, date and place, please login to Academic Information System  >Application system of the Oral Defense  >Start to apply, two weeks prior to the oral examination the latest.
7. After the completion of online registration procedure, , please save and submit the application. Then, click on the “Report” to print the Application Form for Master Degree Exam and Committee members of oral defense for Master Degree. With the Graduation Credits Confirmation Form for the MS student and Ph.D student of EE NTHU、Transcript、Proof of Thesis Originality by using Turnitin tool and The report on the research colloboration salary, scan and convert it together into a PDF file, and send it to the department office email (eeoffice@my. nthu.edu.tw). Please indicate the subject of the letter: student ID/name/Application for Master Degree Oral Examination. (You do not need to submit the Advisor Approval Form on the first Department Evaluation).
8. After passsing the first Department Evaluation, we will send you a notification e-mail, then you can login into Academic Information System  >Application system of the Oral Defense  >Print forms, to print out the forms ( Average Oral Defense Grade Form、Score Sheet of Oral Defense、Final Thesis/Dissertation Review Form、Advisor Approval Form). Appointment Letter for Degree Exam should be sent by email of Academic Information System.

Following is the document that you need to prepare on the day of your oral examination:

1. Final Thesis/Dissertation Review Form (1 pcs)
2. Advisor Approval Form (1 pcs)
3. Score Sheet of Oral Defense (for all of the examination committee)
4. Average Oral Defense Grade Form (1 pcs)
5. Proof of Thesis Originality by using Turnitin tool (at least 1 pcs)
6. Plagiarism Detection Results Confirmed List (Please prepare copies with the same number of the total committee members)
7. Thesis draft (at least 1 pcs)

After finishing the oral examination, please submit “Final Thesis/Dissertation Review Form, Score Sheet of Oral Defense, Average Oral Defense Grade Form, Advisor Approval Form, Plagiarism Detection Results Confirmed List, and Transportation fee for the oral examination report” to Department office.

◆ The Department office need to submit your Master overall grade to the Division of Registration before the beginning of new semester the latest.

Thesis softcopy file: After the completion of oral examination, transcript submission to the Department office, and the thesis revision, you are able to upload your thesis into our Library website. Please refer to the Submission Guide in the website. If you have any questions, please contact the Library : ref@my.nthu.edu.tw.

◆ Upon approval, you need to print and submit two hard copies(Paperback) to the Main Library before the beginning of new semester the latest.

Graduation procedures: Please login to Academic Information System to apply for the graduation procedures.

◆ Generally, you have to finish the graduation procedures before the beginning of new semester.

◆ Graduation procedure from the Department: After you have passed the oral examination, please go to our Department website (Master/PhD) and download “National Tsing Hua University Thesis/Dissertation Affidavit” , “Graduation Procedure Form for the MS student and Ph.D student of EE NTHU (including the Graduates questionnaires)”, then fill out these forms and bring these forms to the Department office. Before you go to the Department office, please sent the PDF version of your thesis (including the Final Thesis/Dissertation Review Form and Advisor Approval Form) to the department office email (eeoffice@my. nthu.edu.tw).

Receiving the Ph.D diploma: Please refer to the Clearance Procedures for Graduates--M&D.

(These requirements are adopted in Chinese, which shall prevail in case of any discrepancy between the English translation and the Chinese original.)