Department of Finance, National Sun Yat-sen University

Doctoral Program

The Ph.D. Programme in the Department of Finance is an academic programme that provides learning opportunities for making students an independent researcher, developing critical thinking and ability to conduct research works in the field. Applicants for the doctoral programme must hold a master’s degree, submit application materials (including study plan and reference letters), take an entrance exam, and have an interview with the Ph.D. admission committee, which consists of faculty members. Applicants are encouraged to submit a Master’s thesis or research articles so that their potential for conducting high-quality academic research can be more easily assessed.

There are at least 80 Ph.D. students who have graduated from the department since 1998. Attainment of a Ph.D. degree requires demonstration of high-quality research potential leading to original articles that contribute to the discipline. Requirements for Ph.D. degrees include a minimum of thirty-nine credit hours, a qualifying exam, publications in the form of articles in academic journals, the accomplishment of a dissertation under an adviser, an oral defense of the dissertation, a study length limitation of seven years, and a minimum score of 750 in TOEIC or equivalent.

Our Ph.D. alumni have achieved successful academics who regularly contribute research to a variety of academic journals and teach in Universities. For example, Professor I-Chun Tsai graduated in the year of 2004 from our department was awarded the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology, the most distinguished national honour for young scholars in the discipline of housing and urban development for excellence in academic research.

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