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Graduate Studies Division Responsibilities:
- Completing application procedures for new admissions to the Master’s program in Soil Science and Water Resources for each academic year.
- Reviewing acceptance forms for admitted students.
- Providing employed students with endorsement letters to their respective departments along with the acceptance list.
- Opening individual files for each accepted student.
- Providing graduate students with endorsements for academic leave purposes and monitoring them.
- Providing students with endorsements for continuing their studies throughout their academic period and endorsing them for library access to facilitate research information retrieval during the writing phase.
- Organizing and maintaining academic records for students applying for study extensions.
- Providing graduating students with transcripts and grade documents (in both Arabic and English), attesting them by the university, and issuing wall charts (in both Arabic and English).
- Transferring and forwarding messages for students who have completed their research and theses to the electronic plagiarism committee, then to the linguistic and scientific evaluators to prepare for the defense.
- Forming examination committees for students, along with creating lists for professors’ remuneration.
- Obtaining approvals for the approval of thesis titles and dissertations, as well as changing titles during the research writing phase, along with issuing supervisor endorsements.
- Monitoring students’ academic leaves and following up on payment receipts for private expense students.
- Responding to correspondence received by the division (inquiries, opinions, student deferral, warning letters, committee formations, calculating the minimum period for students).
- Compiling statistics for all master’s students (specialization, gender, graduation year) and uploading them in CD format or Excel sheets, establishing a database for students, and monitoring the department regarding master’s students.
- Issuing administrative orders (for acceptance and initiation) for students who have received university acceptance orders for Master’s studies in our college.
- Issuing administrative orders for overseeing graduate students.
- Issuing administrative orders to assign lecturers to teach graduate students for both the spring and fall semesters.
- Issuing examination schedules for Master’s students and sending them to the University of Wasit Presidency/Graduate Studies Department.
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