Policy on Part-Time Doctoral Students
The doctoral program is intended for full-time on-campus students.
Applicants who expect to spend any or all of their time during
the academic years employed outside the department are strong
discouraged. Summer internships elsewhere may or may not be acceptable to the faculty advisor. Students appointed as Research
Assistants or Teaching Assistants are not permitted to
hold outside positions during the periods of their appointment;
very limited consulting may be permitted by the faculty advisor
only in cases where the student is otherwise making satisfactory
progress. It is not possible to enroll in the PhD program
through the Columbia Video Network (CVN).
If for some reason a self-funded or employer-funded applicant
must work externally during the early portion of the doctoral program,
it is strongly recommended that the applicant enroll instead
in either the terminal Master
of Science or professional Computer
Systems Engineer (if the applicant already holds an MS) degree
program. The faculty advisors of such MS and CSE students may petition
the for permission for such students to undertake some
of the doctoral program
requirements prior to formal enrollment in the Ph.D. program (certain previously
completed requirements count automatically, such as
breadth requirement courses taken here
at Columbia).
Then, once formally enrolled later on, the student is normally expected
to spend an absolute minimum of two full academic years full-time
on-campus, beyond the MS or CSE degree. In very rare cases, students may conduct
their research off-campus in an industry or government laboratory, or at another
academic institution, with the permission of the faculty advisor and the
concurrence of the PhD Chair. It is not unusual, albeit not recommended, for
students who have completed all of their doctoral program requirements except
the dissertation defense and deposit, known as "ABD" for "all but dissertation",
to accept full-time positions elsewhere while writing the dissertation (normally
after the bulk of the research has been completed).
Last updated on
May 23, 2005
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