Friday, 19 January 2018

Will the PhD degree be retracted if the thesis is found to be not novel?


Suppose a person got PhD degree by properly submitting his/her thesis on a particular topic. Assume that neither the student nor the doctoral review committee including supervisor knows that the proposal is not a novel.


Later at some point of time if it comes to know that the student got PhD without any novelty. Then does the PhD degree get withdrawn?




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