Disquisitions

As you prepare to graduate, you will be completing and defending your disquisition, filing forms with the Graduate School, and submitting your disquisition for format review. The disquisition review process involves making sure that necessary steps are completed for graduation and that your disquisition meets certain requirements in formatting and construction, to ensure a high standard of quality in the disquisitions that are published from NDSU.

Before you submit your disquisition to the Graduate School, your pre-submission requirements must be met and your disquisition must meet the formatting and construction requirements set out in the Graduate School Format Guidelines. Once you submit your disquisition, the Disquisition Coordinator will review it based on the Format Guidelines and send you a memo noting any required changes.

Our formatting guidelines are available throughout our website as well as in a downloadable PDF. You can access the online formatting guidelines through the navigation bar at the top, through the site map at the bottom of every page, or through the "In This Section" button present on the breadcrumb bar.

New Accessibility Requirements

Beginning Spring Semester 2026, all disquisitions will be subject to new requirements under NDUS Policy 1203.1, including alt-text for images and document structure tagging. See our page on Digital Accessibility for more information on creating a compliant disquisition.

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