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The Graduate School maintains the Individual Ph.D. (IPh.D.) Program for exceptionally able students whose objectives for study are of an interdisciplinary nature that cannot be met within one of the University units authorized to grant the Ph.D. degree. The program is intended for dissertation topics that require supervision from two or more of the disciplines in which the University offers the Ph.D. degree. It is not intended as a mechanism for offering the Ph.D. degree within units that do not have their own authorized Ph.D. programs.
A graduate student may apply to the IPh.D. Program when he or she has completed the master's degree, or has been admitted to the Graduate School and has completed at least three quarters of full-time work at the UW, and has carefully planned an appropriate program of studies.
Proposals, including GRE scores, are due by February 1 of each year, and decisions on admission are made by May 31 of the following year. Information and application materials for the Individual Ph.D. Program are available at http://www.grad.washington.edu/students/interdisciplinary/iphd/index.shtml.