Thesis and Dissertation Fees

Reading and Administration Fee:
All theses and dissertations are read by the primary mentor and a second reader. The Reading and Administration Fee is a fee for the administration and mailing to and from the second reader, as well as the second reader’s payment fee.

Doctoral Dissertation Fees: $200 . . . To cover administrative and review expenses, all doctoral dissertations proposals must be submitted with a dissertation fee.

Master’s and Bachelor’s Thesis Fees: $150 . . . To cover administrative and review expenses, all thesis proposals must be submitted with a thesis fee.

PDF-CD Submissions and Burning Fee:

In February 2007, the CES Board Members voted to go to all electronic versions of the final products of theses and dissertations.

As of February 2007, students will no longer hand in hard-bound copies of their theses or dissertations.

Students must now submit their final product as a PDF file on a CD.

The CD must be shipped in its own hard plastic case.

The disc may have a label or a handwritten description of the work.

On the label (or in permanent ink in black), these things must be clearly readable:

1. Student's full name
2. The Student Number
3. The title of the work
4. The degree
5. The date (month - year) work was finalized and accepted

So, students who write theses and dissertations are required to submit one copy of their work in PDF on a CD to CES, which becomes the property of the school (however, the student retains all copyrights).

Students may opt to have CES do the disc burning. When this is the case, this is what CES will need from the student:

1. An emailed copy of the work in a PDF file
2. This information (below) typed out and sent (in the same email) along with the PDF file:

a. Student's full name
b. The Student Number
c. The title of the work
d. The degree
e. The date (month - year) work was finalized and accepted

3. A $50 fee

Note: When students have CES do the CD burning for them, they are considered done with their programs of study (and graduated) at the time the final PDF copy of the thesis or dissertation arrives at the CES office (providing all bills are paid). At the moment the final PDF copy of the manuscript arrives at the CES office (via email), it then becomes the responsibility of CES to have it burned onto a CD.

However, when students do the CD burning themselves, they are not considered done with their programs of study (or graduated) until the PDF copy of the manuscript arrives at the CES office on the CD and is inspected and accepted as properly completed.

Thesis and Dissertation Length

The minimum length of your thesis or dissertation is determined by the word count of the thesis body, plus your footnotes.

The thesis or dissertation body begins with the first word of your Introduction and ends with the last word of your Conclusion.

When you count the words in your thesis or dissertation, do not count the Front Matter, the Table of Contents, the Bibliography, or the Appendices.

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS:
10,000 to 20,000 words (40 to 80 pages)

MASTER’S THESIS:
20,000 to 40,000 words (80 to 160 pages)

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION:
30,000 to 60,00 words (120 to 240 pages)