Selecting the Doctoral Committee
You must adhere to the following guidelines in selecting faculty to serve on your doctoral committee:
- Every Biological Sciences student doctoral committee must include only regular and adjunct UCSD faculty and have at least 5 members.
- Every doctoral committee must have at least 1 non-Division of Biological Sciences faculty member who has tenure at UCSD.
- Every doctoral committee will have at least 3 Division of Biological Sciences faculty (including DoBS adjunct faculty).
- If a doctoral committee contains 4 Biological Sciences faculty members, at least two DoBS sections must be represented.
- A doctoral committee may include no more than 2 adjunct faculty (without adding a sixth member). If a committee has 2 adjunct faculty, at least 1 must have their adjunct appointment in the Division of Biological Sciences.
