Timeline
1st Year
2nd Year
3rd Year
4th Year
5th Year
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*Complete Core Courses
- Specialty Courses
- Select an Advisor
- Join a Research Laboratory
- Complete Required and Additional Courses
- Begin Laboratory Research
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*Written Qualifying Exam (end of second year)
- Continue Laboratory Research
- Investigate Dissertation Topic
- Conference Presentation
- Conference Presentation
- Continue Laboratory Research
- Peer-Review Paper
- Select Dissertation Topic
- *First Oral (Advance to Candidacy)
- Continue Laboratory Research
- Peer-Review Paper
- Final Oral and File Dissertation (See UCLA Thesis and Dissertation Guidelines.)