The Faculty of Graduate Studies is happy to review your thesis early in its preparation to ensure that you're on the right track. It's a good idea to get a pre-review when your thesis is nearly ready for examination, so that you have time to make any formatting changes in advance of corrections required by your committee or examiners.

Theses are reviewed electronically in order to save paper should you need to make corrections and re-submit. Theses are reviewed in the order in which they're received.

Doctoral dissertations must be submitted electronically for review immediately prior to submission for external examination. You can have your dissertation pre-reviewed to make sure you're on the right track, but it must be reviewed again immediately before sending to the external examiner to ensure that the formatting is correct.

UBCO students: For pre-reviews and information, please contact:
patrick.vanderburg@ubc.ca 250.807.8772

Electronic review

Email a PDF of your thesis to graduate.thesis@ubc.ca:

• include your name and student number
• tell us whether you're requesting a review of a thesis in progress or immediately prior to submission for external examination (mandatory for doctoral students)

We will respond by email, but if extensive changes are needed we may ask you to come to the office for an in-person review.

In-person review

Email graduate.thesis@ubc.ca and make an appointment for an in-person review at the Graduate Studies office. Bring your thesis in one of the following ways:

• on a memory stick
• on your laptop

Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.

Theses are reviewed electronically only during regular office hours.

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