The Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) website is a one-stop shop for everything graduate students need to submit their final documents electronically. The ETD Guide provides step-by-step instructions and visual examples to help explain the Graduate School’s formatting and production requirements. The Digital Accessibility Requirements page provides resources to help students create ETDs in accordance with federal accessibility standards. Students are encouraged to read these guides before writing and refer to them throughout the writing process. We encourage students to use the ETD templates to simplify the formatting process.

Another resource to use early in the writing process is the ETD Timeline Tool. Students can take the guesswork out of planning their thesis or dissertation with this customizable Google Sheet that helps them work backward from their anticipated defense date and stay aligned with NC State’s Electronic Thesis and Dissertation deadlines. Students may explore the tool and accompanying video to build a clear, manageable timeline for writing, preparing their defense and reaching their graduation goals with confidence. Learn more

Before submitting your thesis or dissertation file to the ETD Submission System, all students should review the ETD process page, which provides important details about each stage of the ETD review and approval process.  Also, students are encouraged to review this ETD formatting checklist, which covers some common issues.

The NC State Graduate School offers 100% electronic processing for graduate theses and dissertations. This means that all ETD reviews, ETD final submissions, Graduate School and Advisory Committee ETD approvals, and NCSU Library catalogs are electronic. The public may access NC State ETDs online on the library’s repository website. After consulting the ETD Guide, feel free to send any questions to the ETD Reviewer ([email protected]).