Graduation Requirement for MSc (by Research) students
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Continuation Requirement (MSc by Research)
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A student will be issued a warning for any semester in which his/her GPA falls below 3.00.
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If in the following semester, the student’s GPA again falls below 3.00 but above 2.50, he/she will be placed on probation.
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The candidature of a student may be terminated if he/she obtains the following:
- A GPA of less than 2.50 for two consecutive semesters;
- A GPA of less than 3.00 for three consecutive semesters.
- GPA for continuation is computed based on all courses read (be it pass or fail) and regardless of whether they are counted towards graduation later on.
Unless otherwise stated, Graduate students are expected to register for courses themselves at Course Registration at Education Records System (CourseReg@EduRec). Students are also strongly encouraged to refer to the CourseReg User Guide for Students, which provides screenshots on how to navigate with CourseReg.
Students can check the ‘Courses & Timetables‘ section to find out about curriculum update, courses offered, courses & tutorial registration and class and examination timetables.
Courses Offered
Students can refer to ‘Courses Offered‘ page to find out what Courses are offered in the Academic Year.
Subject to departmental approval, students are allowed to substitute up to two MA-courses with approved level 5000 courses offered by other departments to fulfill the graduation requirements.
Important Notes:
- Graduation requirements for programme: 3 MA courses in the basic elective list must be completed and cannot be substituted.
- Departmental Approval: While students do not need to seek internal approval to take courses coded as QF5xxx, DSA5xxx, ST5xxx or CS5xxx, please inform department about your intention to substitute the non MA coded course with a corresponding MA-coded elective. Submit your intention via the e-form.
- For other courses not stated in point (2), students must seek permission by writing to the Department before the start of course registration in any semester.
- For QF5xxx, DSA5xxx, ST5xxx or CS5xxx, while students do not require the permission of the department to apply for these courses, the approval of these courses are determined by the MDSML/MQF programme managers, Department of Statistics and Data Science or the School of Computing.
Procedure:
- Go to NUSMODS to retrieve the course description of the course that you wish to read as a substitute for MA-coded course.
- Submit your request for course substitution via this link at the start of the semester. Deadline for course substitution request: End of 1st instructional Week of Semester.
- Department Administrator will share the requests with Assistant Prof Yu Hui to seek his approval by Week 2, Wednesday.
- If you are a newly admitted student requesting for credit transfers together with course substitution, then the transcript that you should send is your last undergraduate transcript.
- Once the request is supported, proceed to do a “submit course appeal” through CourseReg. Please refer to the CourseReg schedule to find out the date where ‘Submit Couse appeal’ function is available in the system.
- Final approval can only be granted by the course host. For e.g. ST5214 is owned by Department of Statistics and Data Science (DSDS). If student submits request to read the course, DSDS will make a decision on your request.
- Students are strongly encouraged to read up more information on CourseReg since all course registration must be done through this system.
Supervision
- The Department requires all MSc (by Research) students to confirm a thesis advisor (previously known as supervisor) by the end of their first year in NUS.
Thesis Matters
- Information on thesis submission may be obtained from the Student Portal.
Leave Application
- There are various type of leave schemes available to Graduate Students. Please click here for more information.
Students who met their graduation requirements are not required to file for graduation as Department will do this for you. Please click the respective link below to find out information about:
- Students are required to submit a bi-annual research progress report via EduRec (Academics > Graduate Research > Submit Research Progress Report).
- Students will need to provide a summary of the work they did in the previous semester and what they will be doing in the current semester.
- The Research Progress Report submission periods are September (for assessment of research progress in Semester 2 of the previous Academic Year) and February (for assessment of research progress in Semester 1 of the current Academic Year).
- Students will be notified via email of the submission period. You will also be informed via email to collect your GAP summary sheet from the department. Upon receiving both emails, you should complete the submission online promptly to allow sufficient time for their supervisor(s), Head of Department/Programme and Faculty to complete their assessments and recommendations for continuation of candidature.
- For scholars, scholarship renewal will be tied in with the semesteral progress report. Students are to note that your scholarship will be suspended if you do not complete the research progress report by the deadline.
- Students who are in their first term (semester) of study are not required to submit the Research Progress Report.
- Please refer to the NUSGS webpage for the FAQs on the Research Progress Report Workflow.
Please submit an e-form on Edurec.
Steps and Guide to submit an e-form for conversion of candidature.
Steps and Guide to submit an e-form for extension of candidature.
Steps and Guide to submit an e-form for Change of Thesis Title.
Steps and Guide to submit an e-form for Change of Thesis Advisor.