Policies

External credit may be accepted in limited circumstances for the Philosophy PhD.

In special circumstances, a student may petition to use a minimal number of graduate-level courses taken at other institutions to satisfy a general unit or distribution requirement. Students are eligible to petition to transfer course units in the winter quarter of their first year of doctoral study. External credit requires the approval of the department. The Director of Graduate Studies will evaluate the transfer of units on a course-by-course basis. It would need to be judged by the department to be at the level of an A in a corresponding graduate-level course at Stanford. Graduate work accepted for transfer of residency does not automatically exempt a student from having to complete a course requirement for the degree.