摘要：The research objective is to describe and analyze students' understanding of the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the Dissertation Examination. The research used survey method. The subjects of the research were the students of the Doctoral Program at the UPI graduate school who graduated in the Educational year 2020/2021 totaling 51 people. Data collection techniques using a questionnaire with the help of the google form application. Analysis of quantitative data using descriptive statistics. The results show that the majority of doctoral students understand and understand the SOP for the implementation of the dissertation exam, doctoral students have problems with dissertation writing with similarity below 20%, doctoral students have difficulty in obtaining a predetermined foreign language score, students have problems related to the duration of the dissertation review time. provided by the commission team. Doctoral students have difficulty in making reputable journal articles and finding international journals that are appropriate to the field being studied, besides that there are also difficulties with the article submission process, experiencing difficulties in the revision process until the article is published, in terms of student readiness in the Stage 1 Exam Implementation. and the Promotional Examination for S3 students did not experience any problems or obstacles.
