Credit Hours: 54
Duration: Minimum 3 Years and maximum six years
Criteria for PhD programs
Bahria University follows rules and regulation set by higher education commission (HEC) Pakistan for admission to PhD programs
Academic Requirements
18 year of education (MS/MPHIL/equivalent degree) in relevant discipline form an HEC recognized university with a minimum CGPA of 3.00/4.00 (semester system) or 60% marks (annual system).HEC’s Attestation is required for all local degrees (on the back of original degree. HEC’s equivalent certificate would be required for the candidate with foreign degree
Aptitude test
NTS-GAT (Subject test), or GRE (subject test), or university Based Test passed with minimum 60 marks. Result has to be submitted at the time of admission
Program Structure
The program structure for the PhD is as follows.
| S No. | Activity | Credits |
| 1. | Course work |
18 |
| 2. | Thesis |
36 |
|
Total |
54 |
Road Map
The proposed road map of the PhD program is presented in the following. After passing the 18 credit hours course work, preferably in the first two semesters, the candidate will have to pass comprehensive exam. After qualifying the comprehensive exam, candidate will have to defend the synopsis and will be offered Supervised Research (PhD Thesis) of 36 credit hours.
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SEMESTER I |
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| Course Code | Subject |
Credits |
| EEN-801 | Research Methods in PhD Studies |
3 |
| Elective-I |
3 |
|
| Elective-II |
3 |
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|
Total credit hours for the 1stsemester |
9 |
|
|
SEMESTER II |
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| Course Code | Subject |
Credits |
| Elective-III |
3 |
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| Elective-IV |
3 |
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| Elective-V |
3 |
|
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Total credit hours for the 2ndsemester |
9 |
|
|
SEMESTER III |
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| Course Code | Subject |
Credits |
| EEN-901 | Comprehensive Exam |
0 |
| EEN-902 | Supervised Research (PhD Thesis) including defense and acceptance of research proposal |
9 |
|
Total credit hours for the 3rdsemester |
9 |
|
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SEMESTER IV |
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| Course Code | Subject |
Credits |
| EEN-902 | Supervised Research (PhD Thesis) including design and implementation of the proposed solution |
9 |
|
Total credit hours for the 4thsemester |
9 |
|
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SEMESTER V |
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| Course Code | Subject |
Credits |
| EEN-902 | Supervised Research (PhD Thesis) including analysis of the results and thesis write-up |
9 |
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Total credit hours for the 5thsemester |
9 |
|
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SEMESTER VI |
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| Course Code | Subject |
Credits |
| EEN-902 | Supervised Research (PhD Thesis) – Submission of the final thesis for evaluation. |
9 |
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Total credit hours for the 6thsemester |
9 |
|
|
Total Credit hours for PhD Program |
54 |
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PhD Course List (Faculty of Engineering & Sciences)
PhD students, as a part of their course work, are allowed to enroll in 700 or plus level courses (not in the PhD course list given below), if offered in MS programs at BU with the approval of FDRC.
| S. No. | Course Code | Title of the Course |
Credit Hours |
| 1 | EEN-710 | MOS VLSI Circuit Design |
3 |
| 2 | EEN-711 | Real Time DSP Design and Applications |
3 |
| 3 | EEN-712 | Advanced Digital Communications |
3 |
| 4 | EEN-801 | Research Methods in PhD Studies |
3 |
| 5 | EEN-802 | Power management in wired and wireless systems |
3 |
| 6 | EEN-803 | Low Power System Design |
3 |
| 7 | EEN-804 | Advance System Modeling and Simulation |
3 |
| 8 | EEN-807 | Special Topics in distributed systems |
3 |
| 9 | EEN-808 | Power awareness in distributed systems |
3 |
| 10 | EEN-813 | Power System Stability and Dynamics |
3 |
| 11 | EEN-814 | Power System Transients |
3 |
| 12 | EEN-815 | HVDC and Flexible AC Transmission |
3 |
| 13 | EEN-816 | Rural Electrification and Distributed Generation |
3 |
| 14 | EEN-817 | Artificial Intelligence techniques in Power systems |
3 |
| 15 | EEN-818 | Power System Deregulation |
3 |
| 16 | EEN-819 | Advanced Computer Architecture |
3 |
| 17 | EEN-820 | Advanced Embedded Systems |
3 |
| 18 | EEN-821 | Advanced Digital Signal Processing |
3 |
| 19 | EEN-822 | Advanced Digital System Design |
3 |
| 20 | EEN-823 | ASIC Design Methodology |
3 |
| 21 | SEN-805 | Power Aware Computing |
3 |
| 22 | SEN-809 | Advanced Artificial Intelligence |
3 |
| 23 | SEN-810 | Advanced Neural Networks |
3 |
| 24 | SEN-811 | Data Ware housing and Mining |
3 |
| 25 | SEN-812 | Machine Learning |
3 |
| 26 | SEN-710 | Formal Methods and Specifications |
3 |
| 27 | SEN-719 | Human Aspects in Software Engineering |
3 |
| 28 | MAT-853 | Advanced Engineering Mathematics |
3 |
| 29 | *MGT-801 | Logic and Research |
3 |
| 30 | *MGT-802 | Advanced Qualitative Research Methods |
3 |
| 31 | *MGT-806 | Advanced Quantitative Research Methods |
3 |
| 32 | *MGT-803 | Critical Review of Literature |
3 |
| 33 | CSC-750 | Computer Vision |
3 |
| 34 | CSC-715 | Pattern Recognition |
3 |
| 35 | CSC-815 | Agent-Based Modeling |
3 |
| 36 | CSC-816 | Bio Medical Image Analysis |
3 |
* Only one course may be allowed with the approval of FDRC.