Submitting a Thesis or Dissertation

Graduate students will follow the procedures to submit a thesis or dissertation to the Graduate School. An outline with links is below.

Do not e-mail your thesis or dissertation to the Graduate School.  Documents received via e-mail will not be reviewed or accepted.

Before Oral Defense

View our online presentation (beginning at 25:42) for a description and walkthrough of these items.

At least two weeks before the oral defense, submit to the Graduate School:

1. A PDF draft of the thesis or dissertation via Canvas to the "Graduate Candidates" course.
   • See our blog for help with logging into Canvas and submitting your assignment.
   • Contact Debra Charlesworth if the course does not appear when you log in.
2. The Pre-defense form. Submission instructions for off campus students are on the form.

The Graduate School reviews all documents in the order they are received and completes a review for the student using the form TD-Review. You will be notified when the review is complete via e-mail. Students may revise their submission any time prior to their review. Note that only one draft of a document will be reviewed.

After Oral Defense 

View our online presentation (beginning at 45:30) for a description and walkthrough of these items.

Correct the thesis or dissertation using comments from the oral defense and the review from the Graduate School. Once all corrections from your advisor, committee and Graduate School are complete,  submit the following three items at the same time:

1. Degree completion form (via Canvas)
2. Revised PDF of thesis or dissertation (via Canvas)
   • See our blog for help with logging into Canvas and submitting your assignment.
3. Dissertation or thesis to ProQuest/UMI
   • Traditional Publishing or Open Access Publishing (extra fee) may be selected.
   • Any bound copies ordered from ProQuest/UMI are in addition to those ordered on the Degree completion form.
   • Embargo options must match those selected earlier on the Pre-defense form.
   • See our blog for help with submitting to ProQuest/UMI.

Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed. Allow one week for document processing. Documents are reviewed in the order they are completely received, and you will be notified via e-mail when the review is completed. If the document is not acceptable for publication, comments will be returned via Canvas and the document must be resubmitted.

After the document has been reviewed and accepted for publication:

1. Bring to the Graduate School:
   • The Degree completion form signed by the Graduate School and the advisor or graduate program assistant (see note below if you are off campus) 
   • A signed signature page 
   • A title page
2. The Graduate School will create an online invoice for the student if any fees are due from the student.
3. When the invoice has been processed, pay the publication fees on Banweb.
   • Log in using your Michigan Tech ISO ID and password
   • Select the "Other Payments" tab and then "Graduate School Binding Fees" to initiate the payment process.
4. If you are off campus: Select "not in the Houghton area, and will be unable to come to the Graduate School in person" on the Degree completion form. The Graduate School will obtain program approval for your bindery order, and will let you know when your fees may be paid on Banweb.