The status of docent, or an equivalent scientific qualification, is also required to serve on doctoral committees and to serve as an opponent at a dissertation defense.

All PhD candidates are required to take a written comprehensive examination, oral preliminary examination, and create a dissertation defense.

A prime example is the dissertation defense: to earn the Ph.D., to become a doctor, one must pass an oral examination on one's dissertation.

It has graduate and doctoral programs and a standing committee for doctoral and candidate dissertation defenses.

On 9 May 1913 Theremin and his cousin attended Ioffe's dissertation defense.

This program requires extensive field work and a dissertation defense.

In 2005 he passed Candidate's dissertation defense, the theme for his thesis was "Developing geostrategies in present-day Russia".

So on a Monday I did my dissertation defense.

In 1967 Sevak became a doctor of philology after dissertation defense.

After his dissertation defense in 1951, he became a professor at the School in 1952.