The format of doctoral dissertations must be reviewed and approved by the Faculty of Graduate Studies prior to submission for external examination. The dissertation must be complete and ready (except for very minor text changes) to send to the external examiner.

• Email your dissertation to graduate.thesis@ubc.ca for review. A PDF is preferred.
• Make any needed changes
• Receive an email or memo of approval. This email will specifically mention that your dissertation is approved for transmission to the external examiner. Please do not print your thesis until you have this email.
• Submit printout of email or memo with the examination copies of your dissertation

It is your responsibility to submit your dissertation for review in advance of deadlines in order to to allow yourself time to make changes if necessary.

NOTE: Please do not submit your thesis to cIRcle for this review.

Submitting the Dissertation for External Examination has more information on submission requirements.