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I. Graduation Requirements

Minimum Graduation Credits: Students must earn at least 30 credits to graduate, including:

• Professional Required Courses: 6 credits
• Professional Elective Courses: 24 credits

II. Important Regulations

1. Departmental Course Requirement
   To complete the Professional Elective Courses requirement of 24 credits, students must earn at least 6 credits from the AI Course Group (select at least 2 courses out of 5). Additionally, they must complete at least 9 credits from CSIE Professional Electives, excluding the AI courses. The remaining 9 credits can be chosen from elective courses offered by other graduate programs.
2. Eligibility of Graduate-Level Courses
   Master’s students may take graduate-level courses offered by both the Master’s and Ph.D. programs within CSIE. All such courses are eligible for inclusion in graduation credits.
3. Credit Transfer Limitations
   Master’s students can transfer up to 50% of the professional elective course credits. Courses offered by the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) are not included in this limit. Credit transfers must follow the university’s schedule.
4. Special Topic Lecture Requirement
   Master’s students must enroll in “Special Topic Lecture” courses—(I), (II), (III), or (IV)—every semester until graduation. Only the credits earned from “Special Topic Lecture (I)” and “(II)” count toward graduation credits. Students in the Five-Year Bachelor-Master Program should refer to the department’s Five-Year Bachelor-Master Degree Implementation Guidelines (本系五年修讀學、碩士學位實施細則) for additional details.
5. Thesis Requirement
   Master’s students must register for the “Thesis” course every semester until graduation. A maximum of 4 credits from two “Thesis” courses may be counted toward graduation credits.
6. English Proficiency Requirement
   Master’s students must meet the department’s English Proficiency Requirement for Graduate Students (資訊工程學系研究生英語能力畢業規定) to be eligible for graduation.
7. Programming Ability Certification
   All students, including those with double majors, must complete the Programming Ability Certification Course and receive a grade. However, the grade will not affect graduation eligibility.
8. Scholarship Obligations
   Scholarship recipients must adhere to the scholarship’s specific regulations and guidelines in addition to completing the curriculum requirements.
9. Academic Research Ethics Education Certification Requirement
   Master’s students admitted from this academic year onwards must register for the Online Courses for Academic Research Ethics Education (學術研究倫理教育課程) provided by the Center for Taiwan Academic Research Ethics Education (臺灣學術倫理教育資源中心) during the course selection period of their first semester. Registration must be completed through the CSIE Department Office. Students must pass the online course assessment and obtain the certification of completion to be eligible to apply for the Oral Defense Exam. Failure to complete this requirement will disqualify students from applying for the exam.
10. EMI Course Equivalency
    To promote English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI), EMI courses offered by the College of Science and Engineering with the same name or nature as those in this program will be considered equivalent. For details, refer to the NDHU Course Equivalency Table (國立東華大學相同或等同課程對照表).