Registration requirements:

It is required for the student to register for Doctorate of Philosophy that:

1. Student must have obtained Master's degree in Science in specialization discipline from one of the universities recognized by the Supreme Council of Universities.

2. Faculty Board can accept student's registration who has obtained a Master's degree in a different specialization up on a proposal from Department Board after passing a number of supplementary courses of Bachelor's level which the department considers important. This should be in such a manner that the number of those courses does not exceed four courses. In Case of the supplementary courses are more than four courses, the student must study a qualifying year to success in these courses as a condition to register for preparatory courses or thesis and the accumulated average grade in these courses must be C at least. Those courses are not counted for the student in program hours.

3. Comprehensive Exam is held for the student in specialization after passing the courses successfully with cumulative grade point average not less than C+ or the student shall register in additional courses or repeat some courses to improve the average grade. The comprehensive exam aim to measure student ability to understand main specialization subjects and branched supporting specializations. After passing the comprehensive exam, student applies to register for thesis subject. The comprehensive exam mechanism is applied for Doctorate degree according to University Council decree no. 12 for 2009.

4. Student displays research plan to the Department Board in a seminar before applying for thesis registration.

5. Obtaining the International Computer Driving License ICDL and determining the level of foreign language are two conditions to obtain Doctorate degree according to the organizing decisions issued by the University Council. Student who had got it is exempted.

6. After student had passed the courses successfully with an average grade CGPA of at least C+ and finishing thesis subject, a validity report is submitted to department board.

7. The Doctorate Degree is conferred to student who passed discussion of their scientific thesis and all requirements upon department proposal and the agreement of faculty council and the cumulative grade points average CGPA is not marked in doctorate certificate.

 8. Student studies German language course and it is not counted in the credit hours and he must success in if he didn't pass it previously in Master's study.

 Hours of study for the program:

1. In order for the student to obtain a doctorate degree, he must study 18 credit hours in addition 24 hours for the thesis.

Supervisory Authority:

1. Up on a proposal of department board, Faculty Board approves the formation committee supervising on the student registered for a Doctorate degree in accordance with the research plan in the department. Committee is formed of professors or professor assistants. The lecture can participate in the supervision, so as the number of supervisors does not exceed four members with a condition that the principal supervisor should be from the faculty. Student can choose from number of the available research subjects according to rules of each specialty.

2. If the student made a research outside the university, it is allowable up on faculty approval to participate in the supervision one of specialists holding Ph.D. in the area of specialization from the party the research was made in.

3. In case of traveling of any supervisor who has less than one year on supervision so Faculty Board can remove his name from the Supervisory Committee on the proposal of the Department Board.

4. In case of traveling of any supervisor after one year of effective supervision so he should submit a scientific report on student progress in the research under his supervision and signed with all other supervisors and he has the right to publish research results. In validity report, supervisor or internal supervisors report is enough.

5. The supervisors on thesis write periodically report on student progress every six months from the date of registration for research plan and is signed by the Supervisory Committee combined. In case of committee members' opinions dissimilarity, the scientific department studies the situation and takes the proper decision. Reports are approved by the department board and Graduate Studies Committee in the faculty and the student is notified through graduate management with the Supervision Committee opinion on the extent of his progress in the thesis (To continue registration or warning the student with thesis registration canceling).

6. Student's registration is canceled if three periodic reports were issued stating that his performance is not satisfactory, after sending him three warnings.

 The jury:

After preparing the thesis, the Supervisory Committee submits with the following to the relevant department board in preparation of submission to the Faculty Board:

1.Report on thesis validity to discussion indicating what he the researcher had done, and is signed by all supervisors. Also supervisory committee introduces a proposal to form the judging panel for the thesis.

2. Up on the proposal of the relevant Department Board, the Faculty Board forms the judging panel on the thesis of three members, one of them is thesis supervisor and the other two members to be a professor from distinct international universities and committee head is the oldest professors and. In case of multiple supervisors they can involve in the committee but have one vote. It is allowable that the both members or one of them are of the former professors or those who in their scientific level of specialists provided that at least one from distinct international universities. Judging panel formation is approved of the Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research.

3. Discussion can be accomplished in the presence of a representative of the Supervisory Committee in the jury if other supervisors can not attend.

4. If the thesis did not discussed within three months from the date of university approval to form the jury, committee approval is repeated with the same members again and the period may be extended for four months if foreign examiner joined. If the committee did not set, committee formation is changed with another committee.

5. Each member submits an individual report about thesis validity and discussion and the committee discuss the student in public in thesis content and research topic. The committee should submit a detailed collective report with discussion result to be presented to department board then faculty council. The jury can recommend giving thesis back to the researcher to complete any lack committee see and to submit a collective report to the related department to recommend granting an extra period to complete its observations within six months as maximum from the date of the discussion provided the jury or who authorized shall agree to approve the thesis.

The student chooses 18 credit hours from the following courses: