Complete all courses and requirements listed below unless otherwise indicated.

Milestones

Coursework
Annual reviews 
Qualifying exam
Dissertation committee
Dissertation proposal (comprehensive examination)
Dissertation
Dissertation defense

Core Requirements

Students must complete all 20 semester hours of the core courses listed below, unless the program director approves changes to the student's course plan:
NETS 5116Network Science 14
NETS 6116Network Science 24
NETS 7332Machine Learning with Graphs4
NETS 7334Social Networks4
NETS 7335Dynamical Processes in Complex Networks4

Electives

Complete 20 semester hours from the following elective course options.20
The student's elective course plan should be discussed with, and approved by, their advisor. Students who seek to apply courses not on this list to fulfill program requirements must obtain written approval from their advisor and the program director. Elective options below are organized by domain areas. Students may take courses from one or more domain areas.
Computational Social Science
Spreading on Networks: From Epidemics to Memes
Complexity in Social Systems
Financial and Economic Networks
Visualizing Complex Networks
Communicating Network Data
Network Economics
Bayesian and Network Statistics
Research Design for Social Networks
Computational Urban Science
Directed Study
Topics
Network Science Literature Review Seminar
Network Science Data 2
Computer Science
Visualizing Complex Networks
Communicating Network Data
Algorithms
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Data Mining Techniques
Special Topics in Artificial Intelligence
Visualization for Network Science
Special Topics in Data Visualization
Directed Study
Topics
Network Science Literature Review Seminar
Network Science Data 2
Epidemiology and Public Health
Spreading on Networks: From Epidemics to Memes
Complex Network Analysis for Biological Systems
Visualizing Complex Networks
Communicating Network Data
Computational Urban Science
Directed Study
Topics
Network Science Literature Review Seminar
Introduction to Epidemiology
Biostatistics in Public Health
Intermediate Epidemiology
Principles of Population Health 1
Principles of Population Health 2
Causal Inference in Public Health Research
Network Science Data 2
Mathematic and Physics
Visualizing Complex Networks
Analyzing Higher-Order Networks
Probabilistic Mathematics of Networks
Algorithms
Graph Theory
Machine Learning and Statistical Learning Theory 1
Directed Study
Network Science Literature Review Seminar
Introduction to Scientific Computing
Statistical Physics
Computational Physics
Network Science Data 2

Dissertation

Precandidacy
Students should register for NETS 8986 after passing the qualifying exam and before completing the comprehensive exam (proposal defense):
Research
Dissertation
After passing the comprehensive exam (reaching candidacy), students should register for NETS 9990 and NETS 9991, successively:
Dissertation Term 1
Dissertation Term 2
Dissertation Continuation
After completing both NETS 9990 and NETS 9991, students should register for NETS 9996 each semester until graduation:
Dissertation Continuation

Program Credit/GPA Requirements

40 total semester hours required
Minimum 3.000 GPA required

Typical Plan of Study

Year 1
FallHoursSpringHours
PHYS 51164NETS 61164
Elective course4NETS 73344
Elective course4One elective course4
 12 12
Year 2
FallHoursSpringHours
NETS 73324NETS 73354
One elective course4One elective course4
 8 8
Year 3
FallHoursSpringHours
NETS 89860NETS 89860
 0 0
Year 4
FallHoursSpringHours
NETS 89860NETS 99900
 0 0
Year 5
FallHoursSpringHours
NETS 99910NETS 99960
 0 0
Total Hours: 40

Alternate Plan of Study

Year 1
FallHoursSpringHours
PHYS 51164NETS 61164
NETS 73324NETS 73344
One elective course4NETS 73354
 12 12
Year 2
FallHoursSpringHours
Elective4Elective4
Elective4Elective4
 8 8
Year 3
FallHoursSpringHours
NETS 89860NETS 89860
 0 0
Year 4
FallHoursSpringHours
NETS 89860NETS 99900
 0 0
Year 5
FallHoursSpringHours
NETS 99910NETS 99960
 0 0
Total Hours: 40