Doctoral Program

The graduates of the Doctoral Program are prepared to be experts, researchers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs in the media and cultural fieldwork who have theoretical, critical knowledge, and practical operational implications.

The doctoral program is planned in six (6) to ten (10) semesters or three (3) to five (5) years of study with 56 credits.

Academic Calendar:
• Semester I: early August - late January
• Semester II: early February - late July

All lecture activities carried out by program participants are jointly prepared by a team of promoters and study program managers. The promoter team is chaired by a professor or a lecturer with a doctoral degree (chief lecturer). All dissertations that will be tested must have gone through a Turnitin plagiarism check with a maximum similarity of 20%.

• Tuition fees for domestic students, by personal or by sponsors, is Rp16.000.000,00 per semester.
• Tuition fees for foreign students are approximately $2,200 per semester.

Information on requirements and registration of new students for the Media and Cultural Studies Program: https://um.ugm.ac.id/

The Doctoral Program in Cultural and Media Studies uses a by-course program, utilizing both classroom lectures and tutorial systems using reading materials and literature tailored to each student's interests or dissertation theme. For the doctoral lecture system, students are given assignments in the form of directed reading, where students independently search for literature to be reviewed and then discussed with the supervising lecturer.

The doctoral program's lecture activities are organized in a structured manner in the form of coursework (in the shape of classical lectures, discussions, tutorials, etc.), which includes compulsory courses and elective courses (tailored to each student's dissertation research).

• Semester I: Students are required to take 4 (four) compulsory courses.

• Semester II: Students are required to take 3 (three) courses supporting their dissertation theme. Dissertation-supporting courses are directed in accordance with the dissertation topic to be written by the program participants.

• Semester III: Students begin drafting their dissertation proposal under the guidance of the promotor team. By the middle of Semester III, students are expected to have conducted the dissertation proposal seminar and taken the comprehensive examination at the end of Semester III. The proposal seminar is an open forum intended for students to receive advice and feedback to enrich their proposal draft, whereas the comprehensive examination is conducted in a closed session. Upon passing the comprehensive examination, students are entitled to hold the status of doctoral candidate.

• Semester IV: Implementation of advanced research and Result Seminar I, where students present their preliminary research results before the promotor team and the head of the doctoral study program.

• Semester V: Result Seminar Phase II. In the second phase result seminar, students present their research results openly to obtain advice and feedback from seminar participants.

• Semester VI: In Semester VI, students are expected to have entered the dissertation assessment stage by the assessment team. Students are expected to enter the dissertation feasibility and closed examination stage by the end of Semester VI.

Compulsory Courses
Compulsory courses consist of theoretical and research methods courses. The students must be master the compulsory courses to become academic or professional experts in media and cultural studies fieldwork. The students are required to take 4 compulsory courses (12 credits).

Elective courses
This course is a subject adapted to each student's dissertation research. The students are required to take 3 elective courses (9 credits).