Schedule for 2024.2
For information regarding deadlines for:
- Requests for renewal and opening of registration
- Transfers (FROM TO)
- Requests for course cancellations
- Enrollment and renewal of registraion for new, veteran and extraordinary students
- Academic term, holidays and school breaks
Please refer to the PUC-RIO SCHOOL CALENDAR: https://www.puc-rio.br/sobrepuc/depto/dar/calendario/#posgrad_periodo
1- FOREIGN LANGUAGE EXAM
Exam date: date to be defined.
2- DOCTORAL QUALIFICATION EXAM
First phase: Students in the 3rd semester must be enrolled in the course MEC3005. The exam will be administered between the fourth and sixth weeks of the semester. The exact date will be determined by the Graduate Committee.
The candidate who fails this opportunity will be entitled to repeat the exam between the thirteenth and sixteenth weeks of the same semester.
First opportunity: not required
Second opportunity: not required
Second phase: The oral presentation of the Thesis Proposal must be completed by the sixteenth week of the semester in which the student is enrolled in the course. Students on internships abroad may make a virtual presentation.
If a student does not pass the course by the end of the 5th semester, he will be automatically removed from the program.
3- DISSERTATION PROPOSAL
The title of the proposal and the name of the advisor must be sent to Carina Beline via email at pgmec@puc-rio.br, by the end of the 1st semester.
Students in the 2nd semester of the Master’s degree program must be enrolled in the MEC 3003 course, Master’s Dissertation Proposal.
The oral presentation will be held in the last two weeks of the second semester, replacing the Graduate Seminar. Presentations are scheduled for June 12 and 16
4- LINK AND REGISTRATION CALENDAR
http://www.ccpa.puc-rio.br/inscricao_pos/
Starting in March 2025: registration from September 15 to December 30, 2024.
Starting in August 2025: registrations from April 15 to June 30, 2025.
5- DEADLINES TO BE OBSERVED
– Scholarship renewal: Email pgmec@puc-rio.br one month before the start of each semester.
– Extension of thesis or dissertation defense deadline: requests by June 30, for deadlines expiring on July 31, 2024, through the website http://www.ccpa.puc-rio.br/sap/
– Deadline to submit the committee proposal: by noon on February 25, 2025, for deadlines expiring on February 28, 2025, considering the regular course duration (24 months for Master’s, 48 months for Doctorate).