Theses and Dissertations
Submitting Theses and Dissertations
The University requires graduate students to submit their thesis or dissertation electronically directly to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database (PQDT) as specified by individual college requirements. After the thesis or dissertation is submitted electronically, it will be cataloged in NUCAT and made available in both ProQuest and IRis, the Northeastern University Libraries Institutional Repository, for research purposes.
Departments and graduate schools maintain their own individual requirements for the preparation and submission of theses and dissertations. Students should contact their department or graduate school for specific information. Guidebooks for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Engineering are available online.
Searching and Viewing Theses and Dissertations
Theses and dissertations are located in the University Archives and Special Collections Department in 92 Snell Library. They can be viewed in the Archives' reading room during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, 9-4. Theses and dissertations can not be checked out. A copy machine is available in the reading room. Photocopies are $0.10 cents per page.
Ph.D. dissertations are cataloged and searchable in NUCAT.
Master's theses are searchable in the Masters Theses Database maintained by the Archives.
Northeastern dissertations are also available from Current Research @NU (Proquest, available to registered NU users only).
Over 2 million dissertations from North American universities published after 1980 are available in Proquest Digital Dissertations (available to current NU faculty, staff and students only).
Registering and Ordering Theses and Dissertations
You may register your dissertation or thesis or order copies of others from Bell and Howell, which publishes dissertations and theses, sells copies on demand, and maintains the definitive bibliographic record for over 1.5 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
To order bound copies of your dissertation, contact ACME Bookbinding Company, 100 Cambridge Street, Charlestown, MA (617.242.1100), or one of the larger photocopying businesses.