The admit-and-confer structure functions like a department by admitting students and conferring degrees, but it operates without a departmental structure. The following programs participate in this model:
The second model are concentrations that admit students to the program directly, but the students eventually graduate from the associated graduate department of the major professor. Degrees at Purdue are awarded only by programs which are approved by the Indiana Commission on Higher Education, which does not include these concentrations.
The third structure is administered as a concentration. These programs review and admit students, but students must already be admitted by a degree granting department. Students have a concentration added to their transcript upon completing the program requirements. Requirements may or may not need to be completed in addition to those of your home department.
Gerontology and Cancer Research are our “dual title PhD degree” programs in which students complete all degree requirements for the discipline-based PhD program with the dual title. The Dual Title option requires additional requirements for each of the Programs, often without extending the time to degree. Both the discipline and program appear on the transcript.