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Final Submission

The Final Submission deadline for graduation under Special Registration for the Fall 2025 Semester is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 22. Please note: UDTS Coordinator Sally Evans will be on vacation from Friday, August 15 through Monday, August 25. She is aware that the Final Submission deadline for Special Registration under Fall 2025 is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 22, and she will do everything she can to assist you in graduating on time. She will be checking her email periodically during her vacation and will respond to you when she can.

The Final Submission deadline for graduation in the regular Fall 2025 Semester is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, December 5 .

In order to be eligible to graduate during a given semester, all Master’s students writing theses and all Doctoral students writing dissertations must turn in the final copies of their theses/dissertations and all necessary materials to UDTS on or by that date/time.

By “final copy,” we are referring to the version of your thesis/dissertation that fulfills all of the following criteria:

  1. UDTS has reviewed and approved your document’s formatting through the Format Review;
  2. You have successfully defended (if a Defense is a requirement for your degree/discipline);
  3. And your committee has approved your content.

Format Review Policy

  • All theses and dissertations must go through the mandatory Format Review. We strongly recommend that students submit their documents for the Format Review as soon as possible to avoid delays.
  • UDTS does not review content; we only review documents to confirm that they adhere to University Formatting Guidelines. Therefore, students may continue to make changes to their documents’ content after passing the Format Review.
  • For the Fall 2025 Semester, we will accept first-time (initial) submissions of theses and dissertations for Format Review until 5:00 p.m. on Monday, November 3. Any document sent for an initial Format Review after 5:00 p.m. on Monday, November 3 will not be reviewed until Tuesday, December 9 at the earliest.
  • For the Fall 2025 Semester, we will perform subsequent reviews (i.e., second-round reviews and beyond) of documents until 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 3. We will not perform any Format Reviews between 5:01 p.m. on Wednesday, December 3 and 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 9.
  • Any students who have not passed the Format Review by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 3 will not be eligible to graduate in the Fall 2025 Semester.

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