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1. Find a PhD advisor: find and maintain a PhD supervisor by the end of the first year, and the latest in the first long semester after a student has attempted 33 hours. For example, if you enter graduate school in Fall 2021 and you reach 33 hours attempted in the Spring 2023 semester, you are expected to normally have found a PhD supervisor by the beginning of the Fall 2022 semester, and the Fall 2023 semester the latest. 
2. Candidacy: complete the advance to Candidacy process typically by the end of the second year, and within one year of attempting 33 hours of academic coursework the latest.
3. Progress Review: complete the Progress Review typically within 4 years, and prior to the 9th long semester after attempting 33 hours the latest.
4. Defense: write the dissertation, complete the dissertation defense and graduate typically withing 5 years, and prior to 11th long semester after attempting 33 hours the latest.

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Toward defining these expectations, “course hours” and “attempted course hours” includes any hours of coursework attempted, completed or not, while within the Graduate Program at The University of Texas at Austin—which includes graduate and undergraduate classroom courses taken for a grade or credit/no credit and individual instruction courses such as MS Report, MS Thesis, internship, research problems, and PhD Dissertation courses—and any hours of coursework to be used toward a graduate degree at The University of Texas at Austin that were taken while not within the graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin—which may include graduate coursework from another institution not used toward an undergraduate degree and graduate coursework reserved for graduate credit while still an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin. (Note that the 33 hours of attempted coursework discussed here with regard to the expectations for acceptable academic progress on research is not to be confused with the 30 hours of graduate level regular classroom coursework to be used for the PhD program of work, although there will be overlap.)

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