Q & A of Defense and Degree Application (PhD)

　　This Q & A has been prepared for frequent asked questions. For specific policy documents, notices and forms of school and TJU, please see the document of "degree & thesis.pdf" by SPST.

　　Q1: How can I get the graduation certificate and degree?

　　A: The PhD major in Applied Chemistry must meet all the credit requirements, pass the defense and obtained the corresponding academic achievements/requirements [1] at the same time before they apply graduation and degree.

　　[1] Academic achievements/requirements are required to meet one of the following conditions:

　　·Number of high level publication , with IF of journal≥10, ≥1

　　·Number of publication on the journal of JCRⅠor JCRⅡ, ≥2

　　·Number of SCI publications ≥3, &ΣIF5.0

　　·at least 4 SCIE publications, SCIE English journal≥1

　　Note: The School of Chemical Engineering will discuss the situation of co-first author separately by academic committee, and it is highly not recommended to use the achievements of co-first author to apply for graduation and degree.

　　Q2: How many words are required for the dissertation?

　　A: The recommended length of thesis in English is no less than 30000words or 100 pages (The requirements here refer to the text, excluding references, attachments, abstract and so on.). According to the thesis submitted by previous graduates, the number of words will not be less than this data, and the quality of the thesis is always the first!

　　In addition, the student should also prepare an abstract in Chinese of no less than 6000 Chinese words when preparing an English thesis.

　　Q3: What’s the meaning of “June batch” or “January batch”?

　　A: The month refers to the time when the degree is awarded, not the time of defense. At present, TJU has three times of degrees awarded every year, which are January, June and November respectively. Therefore, the review of thesis needs to be completed two months before defense, and the defense needs to be completed half a month before degree application.

　　Q4: What’s the requirement of plagiarism check result?

　　A: For PhD (Applied Chem.), the total copy ratio is less than 20%, and there is only one chance to apply plagiarism check.

　　Q5: What’s the requirement of thesis review?

　　A: PhD dissertation will be submitted to the review system by TJU or SPST for anonymous review. In principle, it takes two months to get the feedback from reviewers. We recommend that the student should prepare the thesis as early as possible to meet the time of defense.

　　According to current requirement of TJU, PhD dissertation needs to take a pre-review before anonymous review: the dissertation submitted by TJU need to be pre-reviewed by no less than three peer reviewers arranged by the research group; the dissertation submitted by SPST will be pre-reviewed by academic degree committee members.

　　Note: The dissertation which was selected to be anonymous review by TJU need to be submitted on time, otherwise it will be listed in the pool of need important review in the future.

　　Q6: What to do next after thesis review?

　　A: Thesis needs to be corrected or modified according to review feedback (A/B/C/D level). For more details, please see the file "thesis & defense".

　　Note: If the feedback of review gave C or D, a long revision time of the dissertation is highly required by TJU, and will thoroughly discussed by School and TJU Academic Committee. In addition, the supervisor will get negative assessment by TJU.

　　Q7: Whether students can submit thesis for review, and then apply for defense after obtaining academic achievements.

　　A: The School of Chemical Engineering (SCE) requires that thesis need to be submitted for review and defense in the same batch.

　　Q8: What are the requirements for the members of the defense committee?

　　A: The requirements of defense committee members are 5-7 (singular) experts with title of Professor. Among them, there are no less than 3 PhD supervisors and 2 out-of-TJU experts from different affiliations. For more details, please see the file "thesis & defense".

　　Q9: Do the defense documents need to be submitted for review?

　　A: The documents for defense should be submitted to SPST and SCE before at least one week of defense.

　　Q10: Do they get a degree immediately after pass the defense?

　　A: After defense, the dissertation will be reviewed by School Academic Committee and TJU Academic Committee in turn, and the degree will be awarded after pass the TJU review.

　　Note:

　　1. After degree rewarded, the Ministry of Education will randomly check the dissertation. Unqualified thesis will result in PhD Degree Revocation and bring negative effect of supervisor.

　　2. The process of applying for PhD degree is complicated. Please communicate with us about the details if needed.

　　毕业答辩及学位申请Q&A (博士篇)

　　这里总结在答辩前后常见问题。学校及学院的具体政策文件、通知，表格请见”degree & thesis.pdf”。也请关注研究生院学位办官网http://gs.tju.edu.cn/xwsy/xwtz.htm，获取最新政策信息。如标注【AP】为仅针对应用化学专业。

　　1. 【AP】如何才能毕业(获得学位)?

　　——简单的说，核心内容如下，更详细介绍请见“Degree & Thesis”文件：

　　1) 和硕士不同，对于应用化学专业博士，毕业和拿到学位是相同的要求，即不能先毕业再申请学位，只能同步;

　　即：达到各项学分要求+通过毕业答辩+取得相应学术成果[1].*

　　[1].学术成果要求简要表述为满足下述条件之一即可：

　　·high level publication with IF≥10, ≥1

　　·publication of JCR Ⅰor JCRⅡ, ≥2

　　·SCI publications ≥3, &ΣIF5.0

　　·at least 4 SCIE publications, SCIE English journal≥1

　　2)关于共同一作：化工学院会在分委会上对共同一作的情况进行单独讨论，不建议使用共同一作申请毕业及学位。

　　2. 【AP】英文论文建议字数要求?

　　——不少于30000words (不少于100页)(这里指正文、不包括参考文献以及附件等)。以上均为建议篇幅，从往届毕业生提交论文情况看，不会比这个数据更少。另外切记论文质量第一!

　　此外，非中文撰写的博士学位论文要额外提供不少于6000字中文摘要。(论文字数的要求是指正文，摘要不算在内)

　　3. 通常说的6月份那批，1月份那批，是指6月份答辩吗?

　　——我们常说的6月份不是答辩时间，而是授予学位时间。目前学校每年有3次学位授予时间，分别是1月、6月、11月份。对应的答辩时间是一般在5月中旬以前，10月中旬以前，11月下旬以前。对应的送审之前再向前倒推2个月。另外，所有答辩的学生要提前向学校登记。比如计划参加6月份学位授予，则一般在1月份秋学期放假前学校会组织填报。

　　4. 【AP】查重率上限是多少?

　　——流程及要求同硕士。(应用化学专业)总文字复制比低于20%，且只有一次查重机会。

　　5. 博士论文送审和硕士一样吗?

　　——博士论文送审要比硕士复杂的多。

　　·博士论文全部采用盲审。分为院级盲审和校级盲审两种。学校会从每批申请答辩的同学中抽校级盲审名单。校级或院级盲审，都使用相同的教育部平台系统。理论上需要2个月反馈评审结果，按照以往的经验，80%的论文会在6周以内反馈全部3份评审结果。但我们仍然推荐尽早准备论文，避免由于评审结果反馈延迟影响答辩。

　　·无论校级或院级盲审，都要在盲审前首先进行论文预审。校级盲审由课题组安排，须自行组织不少于三位同行专家对参加校盲审的学位论文进行初评，评审合格后方可送交学位办进行校盲审。(注：疫情期间，预答辩及同行评审均可作为预审形式)。院级盲审由学院分委会进行同行评审。通过后才能正式送审。

　　l 被抽中校级盲审要按时提交论文送审。如没有按时提交论文送审，则导师指导的学生会被列为重点校级盲审对象。

　　6. 送审结果反馈后，只要修改一下论文就可以答辩吗?

　　——不是，要严格对照论文评审意见处理规定。

　　评审反馈的结果(A/B/C/D等级)要对应规定进行相应的处理。校级盲审-《天津大学博硕士学位论文校级盲审评阅意见处理规定》。院级盲审-《天津大学研究生学位论文评阅意见处理办法》。(以上文件可查阅”degree & thesis.pdf”或登录研究生院学位授予网站http://gs.tju.edu.cn/xwsy/cyxz.htm)

　　论文送审结果将一直被记录，供院级、校级分委会委员了解，所以送审要慎重!一旦出现C/D，最重要的危害有以下三点：

　　a) 由于要修改论文一定时间以上，很难赶上当批次的学位授予。

　　b) 据目前经验看，论文送审结果将一直被记录，且很难一次就通过学院及校级分委会审核，进而拿到学位。

　　c) 校级盲审论文评阅意见会做负积分。比如：评阅意见中出现一个C(75-60)”，积1分，出现一个D(60以下)”，积2分。某位导师上一年度博/硕士学位论文的校盲审评阅意见积分累计达到N分，则从当年开始停止上岗N/3(向下取整)年。如对符合采用增加送审专家或复议形式的论文，经增加送审或复议后达到送审要求的，首次送审的负面评价不计入积分中。

　　7. 【AP】论文送审通过了，但是因为成果没达到延后申请学位可以吗?

　　——非常不建议这样做。

　　论文送审和答辩应在同一批次。时间间隔过长(举例：3月份论文送审，11月份答辩)可能在分委会讨论时不通过)。

　　8. 【AP】博士答辩评委的要求?

　　——简要来说，答辩委员会专家要求如下，具体内容请见degree & thesis 文件：

　　· 5-7名(要求为单数);

　　· 全部为教授;

　　· 不少于三分之二且至少3名博士生指导教师，至少2名校外专家，且分属于2个及以上不同单位;

　　9. 答辩前需要审批吗?

　　——是的。答辩前学生需要准备系列答辩材料，首先由药学院进行审核，再由博士点所在学院进行审批。建议学生在答辩前一周就办理审批手续。未经审批的答辩视为无效。

　　10. 答辩通过后就确定能获得学位吗?

　　——不是的，还要经过一些审核。

　　·院级分委会审核。学生将根据答辩委员的意见再次对论文进行修改，得到导师的同意后，将答辩材料及学术成果的证明等系列材料，交至博士点所在学院，等待分委会讨论。目前，化工学院要求，如上会未通过讨论，需要重新对论文进行送审。

　　·校级2个分委会审核。待化工学院分委会讨论通过后，学生可能继续结合分委会反馈意见对论文进行修改。修改通过后，论文会由校级理工类分委会、校级分委会对于是否授予学位进行讨论。

　　备注：1. 在授予学位后，教育部仍然会对博士论文进行抽检，一旦抽检不合格，则导师的博导资格会受到影响，学生可能面临撤销学位。

　　2. 博士学位申请过程在具体手续(涉及的表格等)相比硕士要复杂繁琐的多，Q&A为了方便老师阅读，在此不做赘述。详细内容我们会和学生沟通。