Graduate Studies Section, Academic Affairs Office

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Graduate Studies Section, Academic Affairs
Office

• Sep. 19, 2007
• 2007 International Students Orientation

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Academic Affairs Office

• Organization
• Section of Graduate Studies
• Section of the Registrar
• Curriculum Development Section
• Audio-Visual Section
• Editorial Press Section
• Extension Education Section

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Section of Graduate Studies

• Area of Responsibility
• Academic regulations
• Course selection
• Academic records statistics
• Student status
• Academic certificates (incl. Academic transcript,
  re-issuance of Students ID Card etc.)
• Admission of graduate students

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Legal Issues

• Visitor visa
• Changing your visitor visa to resident visa
  first
• Resident visa
• Applying for ARC (alien resident
  certificate) in 15 days of arrival
• Alien resident certificate
• Extending Alien Resident Certificate (ARC)
• Applying for re-entry permit

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• Changing a visitor visa to a resident visa
• Agency Bureau of Consular Affairs
• Ministry of Foreign
  Affairs
• Tel [phone] (
  http//www.boca.gov.tw/mp?mp2)
• Required documents
• application form, two photos 2x2 inches,
  passport, student ID, visitor visa, fee

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• Applying for Alien Resident Certificate
• Agency National Immigration Agency
• Tel [phone]
• http//www.immigration.gov.tw/immig_eng/aspco
  de/main4.asp
• Required documents
• application form, two photos 1x1 inches,
  original and photocopy of passport, student ID,
  resident visa, fee

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• Extending of Alien Resident Certificate
• Agency National Immigration Agency
• Tel [phone]
• http//www.immigration.gov.tw/immig_eng/aspcode/ma
  in4.asp
• Required documents
• application form, passport, student ID,
  resident visa, fee

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• Applying for Re-entry permit
• Agency National Immigration Agency
• Tel [phone]
• http//www.immigration.gov.tw/immig_eng/aspco
  de/main4.asp
• Required documents
• application form, passport, student ID, ARC

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Registration Procedures

• Check in at dormitory administration center
• .
• Check in at the department you plan to study
• Check in at Section of Graduate Studies and fill
  out the student registration form
• Submit documents
• (incl. original diploma, official
  authenticated documents, 2 photos, and copy of
  the front side of your passport and visa etc.)
• Pay the tuition
• Cashier Section ( Fl. 3, Administration
  Building)

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Registration Procedures (continued)

• Return check-in procedure form and receipt of
  payment
• receive a student ID card (or Certificate of
  Study if ID card is not
• available) and password for student
  information system
• Check in at Life Guidance Division (Student
  Affairs Office)
• Contact Miss Lin (2F, Student center, near
  Post Office)
• Proceed to resident visa/ARC application and
  course
• enrollment

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Course Selection

• Course catalog and course selection
• (course selection period)
• Limitations for Course( maximum)
• Credits transferring
• Inter-university course selection

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Course Selection (continued)

• Course catalog in English version
• http//140.118.31.215/querycourse/EngCourseQuery/Q
  ueryCond.aspx
• Course selection
• http//stu255.ntust.edu.tw/ntust_stu/eng_course/en
  g_login.aspx

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Course Selection (continued)

• Academic calendar
• http//admission-e.ntust.edu.tw/ezcatfiles/admissi
  on-e/img/img/138/2007-
• 2008Academiccalendar.doc

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Course Selection (continued)

• Adding /dropping course
• via website first come first served
• Manual operation (in case you can not
  add/drop course from internet)
• (Forms download http//academic-e.ntust.edu.
  tw/ezcatfiles/academic-e/img/img/300/c02_01.doc)
• fill out application form? approval from the
  instructor and department
• 
  chairman
• 
  ?submit to Graduate Studies Section/Registration
• Section
• ? No record shown on the transcript

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Course selection (continued)

• Correction
• (via manual operation only)
• 2nd course dropping
• http//academic-e.ntust.edu.tw/ezcatfiles/academic
  -e/img/img/300/c02_03.doc
• (via manual operation only)
• W withdrawn will be marked on transcript

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Course selection (continued)

• Limitations for Course
• Maximum Credits per semester
• http//academic-e.ntust.edu.tw/ezcatfiles/academic
  -e/img/File/r02_04.doc
• Taking undergraduate courses
• (not be counted as course hours required for
  graduation)
• (Credit-hour fee is required to pay for
  undergraduate courses.)

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Course selection (continued)

• Credits transferring
• Regulations of Credits Transferring
• (The application of credits transferring should
  be made before the
• due date. Please prepare the official transcripts
  of
• academic records in English or Chinese, which
  should carry the
• official seal of the school attended.)

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Course selection (continued)

• Inter-university course selection
• Inter-university course selection regulation
• http//academic-e.ntust.edu.tw/ezcatfiles/academic
  -e/img/File/f_02.doc (NTUST students selecting
  courses at National Taiwan Normal University
  (NTNU) may be considered as equivalents to the
  ones offered by NTUST .)

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Important Regulations

• Leave of absence
• Maximum 2 years
• Fill out application from and leaving procedure
• Return school leaving form after completing
  leaving procedures
• Certificate for leave of absence
• ARC will be suspended during absence period

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Requirements for Graduation

• ? Requirement
• 1. Required graduation credits / required
  courses
• 2. Qualifying examination within the first
  four semesters (for doctoral degree program only)
• 3. Thesis/dissertation
• Passing score
• Graduate students 70
• Undergraduate students 60

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Requirements for Graduation(continued)

• ? Term of study
• (excluding terms of leave of absence, maximum 2
  years)
• Masters 1 to 4 years
• Doctorate 2 to 7 years
• ? Oral defense
• 1st semester from Oct. 1 to Jan. 31
• 2nd semester from April 1 to July 31

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Academic certificate

• Transcript?class ranking?student ID replacement
• Application methods
• ? Machine
• ? Manual operation
• 1. Application form
• 2. Pay to Cashier Section
• 3. Return to Graduate Section / Registrar
  Section
• 4. Process time Transcript in Chinese
  immediately
• others 3 days

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Related Links

• . Study in Taiwan http//www.studyintaiwan.org/why
  _studying_in_taiwan/why-study-in-taiwan.htm
• . Ministry of Education (Taiwanscholarship )
  http//english.moe.gov.tw/mp.asp?mp1
• . Ministry of Foreign Affairs http//www.mofa.gov.
  tw
• . Bureau of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign
  Affairs http//www.boca.gov.tw/mp?mp2
• . National Immigration Agency http//www.immigrati
  on.gov.tw/

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• Contact person
• Graduate students
• April, Huang (College of Electrical, Computer
  Engineering, College of Design, Chemical
  Engineering)
• Tel [phone]
• e-mail ywhuang_at_mail.ntust.edu.tw
• Emily, Chiu (College of Management, College of
  Engineering)
• Tel[phone]
• e-mail emilychiu_at_mail.ntust.edu.tw
• Undergraduate students
• Mukti, Lai
• Tel [phone]
• e-mail muktilai_at_mail.ntust.edu.tw

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Admission

•  Application  (online)
• http//140.118.99.78/FA/index.aspx
• Guidelines
• http//www.admission-e.ntust.edu.tw/front/bin/ptli
  st.phtml?Category2

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Welcome to be a member ofNTUST!