The time from the opening report of master students to the application for dissertation defense is generally not less than one year. Postgraduates should, in principle, complete the thesis opening report before the end of the third semester after enrollment. Students who take part in centralized lectures can ask questions online according to the actual situation. The time from the doctoral report to the application for dissertation defense is generally not less than one and a half years.

Open recruitment of doctoral students, in principle, should be completed before the end of the third semester after admission. Generally, the mid-term evaluation of graduate students is not less than half a year from the beginning of thesis defense, and is generally carried out in the first half of the third academic year.