Final stages of doctoral thesis - timetables for summer 2024

Please note the effect of the holiday season on the schedules of the final stages of the thesis!

Proposal of the pre-examiners must be submitted in Eforms-service at latest on June 17th, if the pre-examination is to be started in July.

Doctoral candidates whose public defence is scheduled earlier than August 14th, must submit the information about the dissertation by July 1st through the online form.

Doctoral candidates whose public defence is scheduled for July-August must submit the materials to Acta’s editorial office at the latest on June 1st. See announcement here.

Permissions to defend and acceptance of doctoral theses are processed in the meetings of doctoral programme committees in June and August (see meeting timetables here). See the doctoral degree graduation days here.

There will be a longer delay on forwarding the pre-examination statements and replying to messages at the Graduate School’s service desk (uniogs(at)oulu.fi) during July.

Please find instructions for the final stages of the doctoral degree from here!

Last updated: 30.4.2024