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Student Handbook

The purpose of this guide is to provide students the information they need for the duration of their graduate studies at GSPIA.

Table of contents

• Program requirements
• Language requirement
• Registration
• General Regulations
• International Students (International office)
• International exchange program (online information session)
• Admission equivalencies for international students
• Payment of fees:
  • Tuitions
  • Payments
• Major Research Paper
• Grading Criteria
• Revisions, appeals and withdrawal procedures
• Computer labs, and mailboxes and email
• Teaching and research assistants
• Convocation
• List of forms:
  • Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (FGPS)
  • GSPIA
    • Registration of Major Research Paper topic
    • Change of Major Research Paper topic and/or research supervisor (co-supervisor)
    • Statement of Research Major Paper supervisor
• Link:
  • Student Identity Cards
  • Housing
  • Student Academic Success Service (SASS)

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