Submission of the doctoral thesis

Please contact us via e-mail well in advance if you intend to submit a thesis after having read the following information.

Please read carefully all the general information about the submission of a doctoral thesis in English and also make sure to comply with all the specific formal requirements stated for your study programme. Additionally, please contact us via e-mail very well in advance if you intend to submit your thesis.

Please contact us via e-mail well in advance if you intend to submit a thesis after having read the following information.

In case there have been changes to the title or to the supervisors, please contact us very well in adavance in order to get to know how to proceed in which documents need to be submitted for the changes since the official approval of the changes is a prerequisit for submitting the thesis.
Please make sure to use our templates. All forms and templates are available here.
If everything is ok, the submission is done electronically in UNIGRAZonline. More details: here.

By law, readers are expected to assess and evaluate a doctoral thesis within four months from the date of submission. After the assessment/grade has appeared in UNIGRAZonline (green bullet next to your thesis title), you may apply for your Final Defence ("Defensio") if the grading was positive.