Electronic Thesis / Dissertation Information

Your ETD submission has specific requirements. For more information about preparing and submitting your ETD, please see the Required Page Order, Formatting Guidelines and ETD FAQ pages.

ETD submission deadlines are posted on the Graduation Deadlines page. If you miss the ETD deadline for your desired graduation term, you will not be able to graduate that term, and you will have to submit another graduation application for the following term. Important note: Make sure to provide your chair ample time to complete the review. We recommend you to upload your ETD quite in advance of the ETD submission deadline to allow your chair time for proper review. Your chair will need to review and submit the ETD to the Graduate College by the deadline date.

• View Graduate Certificate Checklist Guide (PDF)
• View Non-Thesis Checklist Guide (PDF)
• View Thesis Checklist Guide (PDF)
• View Dissertation Checklist Guide (PDF)
• View Library Dissertation Checklist Guide (PDF)

ETD Digital Accessibility

The University of Cincinnati strongly recommends making electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) accessible. You can ensure your accessibility features are established when you convert your thesis or dissertation document from Word to PDF. Please see PDF Documents and Creating accessible PDFs for tutorials and guides.

The following notice is a practice that has been established and implemented on behalf of the students; no action is required.

As part of the University of Cincinnati’s efforts to make educational content accessible and available to everyone and to meet OhioLink’s ETD minimum requirements, the Graduate College has created a feature in the Graduation Checklist to make your ETD Document of Defense (DOD) page accessible for assistive technologies, such as screen readers. The DOD is a version of the Committee Approval Form, and it includes printed names of the thesis or dissertation committee; an example of the DOD can be found in the thesis and dissertation checklist guides located above.

The DOD page includes the following accessibility components to meet the ETD OhioLink recommended minimum digital accessibility requirements:

• Title: The title of your thesis/dissertation will be included on the document as text accessible.
• Full text of DOD: The whole DOD page will be accessible, which will include student name, degree, program, title of ETD, and committee.
• DOD page accessibility permission flag is checked: The Graduate College has addressed all accessibility issues in DOD page; no further action is required.
• Text Language of the DOD is specified: The system will specify the language of the title and document you select in your graduation checklist.

The practice above has been established and implemented on behalf of the students; no action is required.

Suggested ETD Timeline

You may need up to 6 weeks to prepare your thesis or dissertation for electronic submission. A suggested schedule is available below.

Format Thesis

• Week 1 of term.
  
• Allow 1 week to complete.
  
• See Required Page Order and Formatting Guidelines for instructions.