Degree Conferral Act Article 11

Master's degrees may be awarded to stu-dents without master’s degrees who ap-plied and were given approval to directly enroll in a doctoral program and who passed the qualifying examination for doctoral candidacy in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 1 of Article 9 but subsequently failed the doctoral de-grees examination, if the doctoral degrees examination committee decides that the students’ work in their dissertation, work(s), proof of achievement accompa-nied by a written report, or technical re-port meets the standard for master's de-grees.
中文原文 學位授予法第11條
經申請准予逕修讀博士學位之學生,依第九條第一項規定通過博士學位候選人資格考核後,未通過博士學位考試,其論文、作品、成就證明連同書面報告或技術報告,經博士學位考試委員會決定合於碩士學位標準者,得授予碩士學位。

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