When should my "Nominations for External Examiner" form be submitted to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies?

Approximately 8 weeks before the dissertation is to be submitted for external exam. External Examiners are busy people. If we can give them 8 weeks of notice, it is often easier for them to accept our invitations. We have found that if we give these busy experts too much or too little notice, they tend to decline the invitation.

With that in mind, do not submit this form if you haven't got a clear sense that you are really and truly two months away from probable submission. You should be pretty much entirely finished with the writing and submitting the completed draft of the dissertation to your supervisory committee for their review and approval when you send this form to G+PS. If you are currently on Chapter 1, it is not yet time to send the form to us.