Master's Thesis Submission and Publication

When the master’s candidate has passed the final oral examination and the members of the committee have signed the thesis, a title page and acceptance page with original signatures are to be delivered to the Graduate Affairs office of the school in which the student’s program resides so that completion of degree requirements may be officially certified. As a requirement of graduation, the candidate must arrange publication of the thesis and payment of all applicable fees, through the electronic submission process found here.

Theses will be made available through UMI/Proquest and KU ScholarWorks, unless there is an embargo in place or special circumstances pertain as outlined in the KU Embargo policy.

The student must be the author of the thesis, and every publication from it must indicate that authorship. Practices vary among disciplines —and even among scholars in a given field— as to whether the mentor’s name may appear as a co-author, and whether as senior or junior author co-author, on subsequent publication of the thesis (usually revised), or on articles prepared from it. It is expected that clear understandings in individual cases will be established during the apprenticeship period, when ethical practices in publication are addressed within the professional development training of the program.