Research Guidance System of PhD at University of Tsukuba
(1) Instructor group guidance
A group of advisers, including a chief adviser and two assistant advisers, provides research guidance for the doctoral thesis.
(2) Multi-stage guidance
The doctoral thesis is completed through the six stages presentation and reviews: Research Plan Presentation, Survey Paper Presentation, Intermediate Thesis Presentation, Draft Thesis Presentation, Preliminary Review, and Final Dissertation Review. A Doctoral dissertation of final stage is requested to contain some thesis, at least one of which musut be published in a peer-reviewed academic journal.