Thesis Information
Announcement regarding Thesis/Project/Abstract/Dissertation:
Beginning Spring 2012, students submitting Master’s Thesis/Project/Abstract or Doctoral students submitting Dissertations are required to submit their work in electronic format through the ETD (Electronic Thesis Dissertation) system.
Thesis/Graduate Project/Artistic Abstract Guidelines
Please download the guidelines for the preparation of theses, graduate projects and artistic abstracts.
Dissertation Guidelines
Dissertation Guidelines (.pdf)
If you will be using Human Subjects for your thesis, you will need approval from the Human Subjects Committee. For more information, go to the website http://www.csun.edu/grip/research/humanresearch/.
Thesis & Dissertation FINAL submission:
Summer 2013 – August 6, 2013
Preliminary Formatting for Thesis & Dissertation
Summer 2013 – July 12, 2013
Planning Form Deadline:
Summer 2013 – June 14, 2013
Electronic Thesis/Dissertation website login page:
For help with the ETD:
Thesis/Dissertation Binding Information:
For those graduate students submitting their thesis, project or performance through the electronic submission process we no longer require bound copies of your work. However, if you wish to have your work bound, we recommend Kater Craft – it is the bindery that CSUN has used for several years.