PhD
📌The graduation requirement regulations.
The graduation requirements are also described in the curriculum plan.
1. The Ph.D. program includes six core courses: Algorithm, Database System, Operating System, Computer Network, Image Processing, and Artificial Intelligence. Students must pass at least three of these core courses.
2. In addition to completing the required graduation credits, students must pass the qualifying examinations, the graduation qualification review, and the doctoral degree examination (including the dissertation proposal and dissertation defense) in order to graduate. Students must pass two qualifying examinations. The available subjects include: Algorithm, Database System, Operating System, Computer Network, Image Processing, and Artificial Intelligence.
3. Students must complete 6 hours of designated courses on the “Taiwan Academic Ethics Education Resource Center” online platform and obtain a passing score on the final assessment before applying for the degree examination.
📌Graduation Instructions
🔸PhD student handbook and schedule links
The main graduation requirements for the Ph.D. program include study regulations, course requirements, qualifying examinations, the doctoral dissertation proposal oral examination, and the doctoral dissertation oral defense.
Requirements for applying for the graduation qualification review based on published papers:
1. The student must publish one SSCI or SCI (including SCIE) journal paper, or two EI or SCOPUS journal papers. After excluding the advisor, the student must be the first author.
2. The student may publish one EI or SCOPUS conference paper, and after excluding the advisor, the student must be the first author, and it must meet one of the following three conditions:
(1) The paper is indexed in the EI or SCOPUS databases;
(2) The paper is included in the Springer Lecture Notes series or is an IEEE conference paper;
(3) One SSCI, SCI, EI, or SCOPUS journal paper may be used to substitute for one EI or SCOPUS conference paper.
📌Curriculum Plan Table
| Curriculum Plan for the 2025–2026 Academic Year (Academic Year 114) |  |
| Curriculum Plan for the 2024–2025 Academic Year (Academic Year 113) | |
| Curriculum Plan for the 2023–2024 Academic Year (Academic Year 112) | |
| Curriculum Plan for the 2022–2023 Academic Year (Academic Year 111) | |
| Curriculum Plan for the 2021–2022 Academic Year (Academic Year 110) | |
| Curriculum Plan for the 2020–2021 Academic Year (Academic Year 109) | |
| Curriculum Plan for the 2019–2020 Academic Year (Academic Year 108) | |
| Curriculum Plan for the 2018–2019 Academic Year (Academic Year 107) | |
📌Course Arrangement
Doctoral Program Curriculum Planning Concept: The program is designed to cultivate fundamental research capabilities as its foundation, complemented by advanced core courses and elective courses in information technology to enhance professional knowledge in the field. The goal is for students to acquire solid expertise in information science and develop the ability to independently analyze and solve problems. The program further strengthens doctoral students’ skills in identifying issues, conducting independent analysis, and devising effective solutions.
📌Course Features
The curriculum is centered around two main categories of elective courses: Advanced Core Elective Courses and Advanced Information Elective Courses.
🔸 Advanced Core Elective Courses
To ensure that doctoral graduates possess fundamental proficiency in information science, the program requires students to complete at least two courses from a set of designated advanced core electives.
The doctoral program offers the following eight core courses:Algorithm, Operating System, Computer Networks, Database System, Project Management, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, Item Response Theory.
🔸Advanced Information Elective Courses
The advanced information elective courses are divided into six major categories: Mobile Computing and Networking, Knowledge Management, Information Education, Multimedia Systems, Semiconductor Information, Embedded Systems.
Doctoral students may select appropriate professional core courses based on their research field, in consultation with their academic advisor.
