What is normative time to graduation?
Normative time is “the elapsed time . . . that students would need to complete all requirements for the doctorate, assuming they engage in full-time study and make adequate progress toward their degree.” Normative time for the Microbiology Graduate Group measures ten semesters, or five years. However, normative time does not necessarily equal the average time-to-degree in the program. Time-to-degree for previous students may differ from that of entering students, as the faculty recently re-designed the graduate program in Microbiology.
