Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETD) Submission

Once you have successfully defended your thesis or dissertation and the content of your thesis or dissertation has been approved by your committee, you must electronically submit your final thesis or dissertation to the ProQuest Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETD) Administrator.

Master's Students: your submission IS NOT COMPLETE until you have uploaded and submitted your thesis to the ETD Administrator AND submitted the Master's Thesis Approval Form.

Doctoral Students: a signed dissertation approval form is no longer required. Your committee chair will receive an email with instructions for providing their approval of the final dissertation in GradWeb. 


Overview of the Submission Process

  1. Upload your electronic thesis or dissertation (ETD) to the ProQuest Administrator.

    Detailed Submission Instructions

  2. Master's students: submit the signed master's thesis approval form.

    Choose one of the submission options:

    • Upload as an “administrative document” to ProQuest as part of the ETD submission process, OR

    •  Email the form to the Division of Graduate Studies graduatestudies@uoregon.eduAFTER uploading your ETD and prior to the final submission deadline

  3. Doctoral students: a signed approval form is no longer required. Your committee chair will receive an email with instructions for providing their approval of the final dissertation in GradWeb. 

  4. PhD Students Only: Complete the survey of earned doctorates. Individual reports are kept confidential and are used for statistical purposes only. The information provided by this national survey is extremely helpful to graduate schools, workforce planning and funding agencies.

  5. Within 1-3 weeks after submitting your ETD and approval form, you will receive an email from the Division of Graduate Studies notifying you of any required formatting corrections.

    If any corrections are required, you will have one week to make the corrections and upload a revised PDF.

  6. Once your ETD has been approved by the Division of Graduate Studies, you will receive an email confirming final approval.


Submission Deadlines

  • Master's Theses: The submission deadline is Monday of finals week each term.

  • Doctoral Dissertations: The submission deadline is 2 weeks after your defense date. 

  • The ETD submission must be successfully completed on ProQuest by 11:59 p.m. on the deadline.

  • Master's students: If submitting the master's thesis approval form in person to the Division of Graduate Studies, it must be received by 5:00 p.m. on the deadline.