Schedule 2024.2
For information regarding deadlines for:
- Requests for renewal and registration opening
- FROM TO
- Requests for course cancellation
- Registration and renewal for new, returning, and extraordinary students
- Academic period, holidays, and school recesses
Please refer to the PUC-RIO ACADEMIC CALENDAR:
https://www.puc-rio.br/sobrepuc/depto/dar/calendario/#posgrad_periodo
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
1- FOREIGN LANGUAGE EXAM
Exam date: to be determined
2- DOCTORAL QUALIFICATION EXAM
Phase 1: students in their 3rd term must be enrolled in the course MEC3005. The exam will be held between the fourth and sixth academic weeks of the term, on a date to be determined by the Graduate Committee.
Candidates who fail this opportunity will have the right to retake the exam between the thirteenth and sixteenth academic weeks of the same period as the first exam.
1st opportunity: there will be none
2nd opportunity: there will be none
Phase 2: The oral presentation of the Thesis Proposal must take place by the sixteenth week of the academic semester in which the student is enrolled in the course. Students doing internships abroad may make a virtual presentation.
The student who does not pass the course by the end of their 5th academic term will be automatically dismissed from the program.
3- DISSERTATION PROPOSAL
The title of the proposal and the advisor’s name must be sent to Carina Beline via email pgmec@puc-rio.br, by the end of the 1st term.
Students in the 2nd term of the Master’s program must be compulsorily enrolled in the course MEC 3003, Master’s Dissertation Proposal.
The oral presentation will be held during the last two weeks of the term, replacing the Postgraduate Seminar. Presentations are scheduled for 11/13, 11/27, and 12/04/2024.
4- LINK AND REGISTRATION CALENDAR
http://www.ccpa.puc-rio.br/inscricao_pos/
For enrollment starting in March 2025: registration from September 15 to November 30, 2024.
For enrollment starting in August 2025: registration from April 15 to June 30, 2025.
5- DEADLINES TO BE OBSERVED
– Scholarship renewal: an email must be sent to pgmec@puc-rio.br one month before the start of each semester.
Extension of thesis or dissertation defense deadline: requests until December 31, 2024, for deadlines expiring on February 28, 2025, via the site http://www.ccpa.puc-rio.br/sap/
– Deadline to submit examination board proposal: by February 25, 2025, for deadlines expiring on February 28, 2025, considering the regular course duration, 24 months (Master’s) or 48 months (Doctorate).