Masdar PhD gets ministry accreditation

A three-member external review team from the Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA) at the ministry recently held discussions with the institute’s officials and faculty members and assessed its governance, policies and procedures, quality assurance measures, education programme, fiscal resources and community engagement.

“The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Degree Programme is designed to give students the flexibility to respond to complex problems by crossing the boundaries of more than one scientific or technical academic programme,” explained Dr Fred Moavenzadeh, president of Masdar Institute.

The PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering will be awarded by Masdar Institute to all PhD candidates who have completed the IDDP requirements.

The specific title of the PhD thesis will be determined by the IDDP Research Supervisory Committee (RSC) of the PhD candidate and will also be included in the PhD degree.

Through the IDDP, Masdar Institute aims at producing doctoral graduates with an ability to work across multiple disciplines to solve complex problems and adopt a global approach to solving complex scientific and technical challenges.

Admission criteria for the IDDP include a minimum GPA of 3.2 or equivalent, a relevant undergraduate and Master’s degree in science, engineering or computing and information science; a minimum GRE score of 155 on the GRE Quantitative (700 on the old scale); a minimum TOEFL score of 91 (IBT) on the international TOEFL and 6.5 on the academic IELTS; as well as, a statement of objectives.

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