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SECTION II –
PLAN 'B DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Ph.D.) BY RESEARCH
1. Definition of the Terms and Phrases used in the Bulletin 1.1. Academic year: one year period beginning July-August (1st -Semester) each year. 1.2. Semester: period covering start of classes till end of the final examinations. It covers a period of 90 effective working days plus two weeks for final examinations. 1.3. Curriculum: series of courses designed to provide learning opportunities to meet the requirements for a degree. 1.4. Course: unit of instruction to be covered. 1.5. Credit hours (or course credit): each credit hour represents one hour of lecture or 3 hours of field or lab work per week throughout a semester. 1.6. Course load: number of credit hours registered by a student in a semester.
2.
Degree Name 2.1. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Agriculture majoring in (Name of the subject).
2.2. Doctor of
Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Animal Science majoring in (Name of
the subject).
2.3. Doctor of
Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Aquaculture majoring in (Name of the
subject).
3.
Duration of Ph.D.
Degree
The normal
duration is four years; however, it may be a minimum of
three years, and a maximum of seven years from the date of
first enrollment in the program. The student failing to
complete the requirements within seven years will be
automatically dropped out from the program.
4.1. Semester system will be followed. There will be two semesters in an academic year. 5.1. Based on the choice of the students and available human resource and facilities, students will be enrolled in the departments in each academic year.
6.
Admission
Requirements and Procedures 6.1. The candidate seeking for Ph.D. admission must have obtained M.Sc. or equivalent degree in the related field with first division marks from the institutes where the medium of instruction is English, produced thesis and a minimum of two journal articles published being the first author or produced five reports being a researcher. However, if an applicant has second division marks in the M.Sc degree with proven ability of doing research continuously for several years and published at least five papers being the first author in the referred national or international journals or produced ten reports being a researcher may also apply for admission in Ph.D. program. 6.2. Application forms and information on admission can be obtained by writing to the Postgraduate Program Office, IAAS, Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal by paying the fee for application form and Postgraduate Bulletin. The application form can also be downloaded from iaas.edu.np website, for which fee can be paid before PG Registration by the students. 6.3. The candidate must produce properly filled out applications forms and the certified copies of the academic certificates and transcripts, two recommendation letters from the professors, and curriculum vitae along with three copies of recent passport size photos to the Postgraduate Program Office prior to the deadline. 6.4. The candidate must submit concept proposal for Ph.D. dissertation, defend his/her proposal and face an interview at least a week before the date of PG Registration. 6.5. The candidate must produce sponsorship or financial guarantee for the study program. 6.6. The selected candidate must submit a medical fitness certificate from the physician of government hospital. The candidate declared medically unfit will not be admitted for study. 6.7. The selected candidate will get provisional admission in the first semester. The Ph.D. Admission Committee will have every right for the selection or rejection of the candidate. 7.1. There will be four members including the Major Advisor in the Advisory Committee of the student based on the area of research. 7.2. The Dean of IAAS will appoint the Major Advisor of the student on the basis of research area and the student’s priority of selection usually prior to admission of the student, or not later than a month of provisional admission. 7.3. Member of Advisory Committee will be decided on the basis of proposed area of research upon the recommendation of Major Advisor / Assistant Dean (Academics) within a month of Major Advisor appointment. 7.4. The Major Advisor must be a Ph.D. degree holder working at the capacity of Professor or Associate Professor, or M.Sc. degree holder working at the capacity of Professor among the faculty members from the related department, and must have at least five research papers published in the referred journals being the first author and must have supervised at least three Postgraduate students (MS students) being a Major Advisor. 7.5. The members of the Advisory Committee from IAAS must be a Ph.D. degree holder and have at least two research publications in the journal being the first author and supervised at least three Postgraduate students, or M.Sc. degree holder having at least three research publications in the referred journal being the first author and supervised at least five students in MS. 7.6. Senior scientists or professors with MS or PhD degrees having at least three research articles published in journals or five research reports published from within or outside the country could also be the members of the Advisory Committee. The
provisionally admitted student in the Ph.D. Program must
take a written qualifying examination during or before the
end of the first semester after formation of his/her
Advisory Committee and finalization of the Ph.D. thesis
research program by the committee. The content of the
qualifying examination will be based on the knowledge of the
working discipline and the area of Dissertation Program. All
the members of the Advisory Committee will give examination
to the candidate and if he/she is unable to get 60% marks,
he/she has to register some of the Postgraduate Course(s) as
recommended by the Advisory Committee to acquire knowledge
and skills in the related discipline.
9.
Requirement of
Courses 9.1. Normally no courses will be required to get registered, however, if the Advisory Committee feels that he/she needs to take some of the specified or other courses such as certain techniques, research methodology, biochemical analysis, design of experiments so on to support to the research work to be carried out, he/she should take them as non-credit courses and must pass in the final examination conducted by the Examination Division, Office of the Dean. 9.2. If courses are required, the student
must register three (minimum) to nine credit hours (maximum)
in a semester as specified by the Advisory Committee.
10.
Course Code The numbers assigned in each course code represent the followings: · 700 series in general : Postgraduate courses · 899 : Ph.D. seminar · 900 : Ph.D. dissertation 11.1. The Ph.D. dissertation will be a total of thirty credit hours. However, he/she can register six credit hours each semester to accomplish his research activities, progress report preparation and presentation in the concerned department including a dissertation seminar in each semester. 11.2. The student will develop the research proposal and upon the recommendation of the Advisory Committee, he/she will forward to the Postgraduate Office for approval. The Assistant Dean (Academic) will forward to the Dean through Research Committee for final approval. 11.3. The research conducted by the student will be frequently monitored and reviewed by his/her Advisory Committee. 11.4. The student will submit three copies
of loosely bound dissertation (150-250 typed pages) for
internal and external evaluation.
12.
Seminar/Progress
Report
12.1.
The scholar will present proposal
seminar in the first semester and progress of the research
activities in the following semesters. The members of the
Advisory Committee will evaluate them independently. If
majority of advisory committee evaluate unsatisfactory, the
candidate will get another chance to improve and present
his/her progress, and again the student failing to complete
the requirements will be automatically dropped out from the
program.
13.
Comprehensive
Examination
13.1. After successful completion of at least 80% of the research works approved on the Plan of Research, there will be a written comprehensive examination conducted by the examination section followed by oral examination conducted by the students Advisory Committee. The student will be graded on the basis of both written and oral examinations. The written and verbal examinations will carry 75% and 25% points, respectively. For successful completion of these examinations, the student must secure cumulative 60% marks. In case of failure, a second chance will be given to the student only after one month from the first examination. The student, failing even in the second examination will be automatically dropped from the program. 13.2. A student will be qualified to Ph.D. degree study only after his/her successful completion of the Comprehensive Examination. 13.3.
A student can submit dissertation to
the Postgraduate Program for examination only after passing
the comprehensive examination. 14.1. The student must conduct the research, write a dissertation draft, and present progress report through his/her presentation in the department and dissertation seminar in each semester and finally submit his/her dissertation for external evaluation. One copy will be examined internally within the institute, other two copies externally, i.e. nationally and internationally. After the acceptance from at least two examiners, the student is required to defend his dissertation successfully through an open seminar in the presence of the members of his/her advisory committee. The members of the advisory committee will evaluate the performance and recommend for the award of the degree if the student has successfully defended the dissertation and completed all the requirements.
14.2. Majority of the Advisory Committee must agree research progress, departmental presentation, dissertation seminar and final draft submission for satisfactory result. The Advisory Committee members may ask the student to modify, change or rewrite the report, if necessary. The student must publish at least one research article in international journal and two articles in national journals from his dissertation research or accepted for publication before defending his/her dissertation. The student will be allowed only two chances to defend the dissertation. If the student fails again, he/she will be automatically dropped from the program.
14.3. The Dean will send the student's dissertation for the external evaluation either within the country or outside the country. The external examiner must approve the dissertation for degree award. The student may be asked to incorporate the comments of external examiner(s) before accepting for degree award. In case of disapproval of a dissertation, a second opinion would be sought from a second examiner. If the second examiner also rejects the dissertation, the student will be automatically dropped from the Ph.D. program.
14.4. After incorporating all the comments and suggestions, eight copies of a well-written dissertation approved by the Advisory Committee must be submitted to the Dean for final approval. Dissertation must be prepared according to the guidelines for thesis/dissertation preparation provided in the Annex I and Appendices A- J) of the Information Bulletin: Postgraduate Program.
14.5.
In addition, a copy of published
articles and articles prepared for publication, eight copies
of the full explanatory abstract, both in English and in
Nepali, including electronic version of final dissertation
draft must be submitted.
15.
Attendance
Requirement
15.1.
If the student has not taken any
courses, and he/she is fully involved in research in or
outside the institute, he/she has to regularly report
his/her advisor. His/her advisor and committee members are
solely responsible and regular attendance may not be
necessary. However, the student has to be regular in the
campus in the first semester for qualifying examination,
full proposal preparation, proposal presentation seminar and
if any courses specified to audit by the advisory committee.
Similarly, the student must be regular in the final
semester in the campus for all data management, analysis,
draft preparation and presentation in the seminar before
finalizing the draft to submit for internal and external
evaluation. The residence requirement for the student is one
year before defending his dissertation of PhD degree.
16.
Evaluation and
Grading If the
students are advised by the Advisory Committee to enroll and
audit/visit some departmental and inter-departmental
courses, they must be regular in the class, complete all
assignments, pass in the examination and get satisfactory
course completion form filled up and submitted to the
Examination Section.
17. Dropping a
Semester
Once
admitted, a student shall not be allowed to drop the
semester or course(s). If a student does not appear in the
final examination, or present his/her progress report,
he/she will be considered as failed in the subject(s) or
research registered in a given semester. For valid reasons,
if a student must miss out a complete semester of
instruction with enrollment, the Postgraduate Program
Committee may allow re-admission, if prior approval is
obtained by the student. Once admitted, no fees, whatsoever,
will be refunded if a student decides to quit the academic
program.
18. The Ph.D. Program Committee
The Dean will constitute the Doctoral Program Committee to assist the PG Program for the execution and implementation of the Ph.D. program. The composition of the committee will be as follows:
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