Manuscript General Regulations

Your graduate unit has the right to require that you provide them with a copy of your thesis or dissertation, and that certain original records and materials be retained as the property of the University. Publication rights to the thesis or dissertation are reserved to you as the author.

Deadline Dates

The final version of your thesis or dissertation must be submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies (OGS) by:

November 15 for Fall (Check with OGS for the date of graduation)
April 15 for Spring (Check with OGS for the date of graduation)
July 15 for Summer (Check with OGS for date of graduation)

Writing a Thesis or Dissertation in a Language Other than English

With the approval of a student’s thesis or dissertation committee and the Dean of Graduate Studies, a manuscript may be written in a language other than English. However, the manuscript must be accompanied by an abstract in English approved by the committee.

Accompanying Forms

The following forms, which may be obtained at the OGS, must be submitted before your manuscript will be accepted by the Dean of Graduate Studies. Many of the forms are now available on the Web. For further information, connect to the World-Wide-Web address http://www.unm.edu/~grad/forms/forms.html

A Report on Thesis or Dissertation ("gray sheet"), completed by each member of your committee: These are often sent separately after the defense by the graduate unit; if given to the student for submission with the manuscript, they should be sealed in an envelope by the graduate unit and marked "Confidential."

A "Certificate of Final Form": You must submit this with your manuscript.

An Information Cover Sheet: This is an OGS form that is submitted before electronic manuscript submission

A "Survey of Earned Doctorate" (doctoral students only - the survey is completed on-line here. If you haven't registered, do that first here.)

A Doctoral Dissertation Agreement Form-University Microfilms International (UMI) booklet entitled "Publishing your Dissertation" (see below).: This is required for dissertation students only, and is optional for thesis students. The form is completed on-line here.

You are responsible for generating two sets of red-border pages -- each set including a Signature Approval page, a Title page, and an Abstract page. You may use the template for the front matter pages, on our Templates Page.

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