To graduate from the Doctoral Program, students must meet the following quality standards:

1. Pass compulsory courses, qualification examinations, closed examinations, and open examinations.
2. Have attended a dissertation progress seminar held by the study program at least once every semester after passing the qualification exam. If you do not attend one dissertation progress seminar, it will be considered resigning.
3. Have completed all study loads of at least 42 credits including a dissertation and taken a maximum of 14 semesters for graduates of a master’s degree program.
4. Have completed all study loads of at least 70 credits including a dissertation and a maximum of 14 semesters from a bachelor’s degree.
5. Pass the entire study load/courses required according to the respective study program with a minimum grade of B.
6. Have minimum dissertation examination score of B.
7. Have published research results related to the dissertation of at least one paper that has been published in reputable international journals or one paper that has been accepted in reputable international journals and one paper that has been presented orally at reputable international seminars. Reputable international journals are scopus indexed international journals with qualifications of Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4, or international journals indexed by Thomson Reuters with an impact factor of more than 0.01.
8. Has fulfilled the requirements for English language proficiency with a TEFL score of ≥ 500. The TEFL score (test results at the CLC ITS) obtained when the entrance test at the same level can be recognized as a pass requirement.

Students of doctoral program in collaboration with partner universities are declared to have passed the joint degree program if they meet the following requirements:

1. Have taken and passed a minimum of 50% of the total credit load required by ITS, excluding thesis / dissertation.
2. Have taken and been declared to have passed all required courses at partner universities through an equivalent process with the ITS curriculum system.
3. Have fulfilled the requirements of scientific publication and foreign language value.