Below is a brief checklist of items an MS (thesis option) student should complete before graduation:
Degree Requirements Checklist
- At least 7 courses (21 credit hours) at or above the 5000 level excluding supervised teaching, supervised research, seminars, DIS, CIS 5915.
- Of the 7 courses, at least 3 courses covering at least 3 of the 4 core areas.
- At least 9 credit hours of CIS 5970, Thesis, where at most 9 credit hours count toward the required 30 hours for the degree.
- In the final term in which the degree is granted, students must be enrolled in a minimum of 2 credit hours of Thesis.
- Register, at most once, for CIS 8976, Thesis Defense (withdraw from all but one instance of this if you have registered more than once).
- Register for graduation via the Registrar’s website during the first 2 weeks of the semester in which you wish to graduate.
Defense & Graduation Checklist
- Determine the manuscript approval deadline, the manuscript submission deadline, and the defense deadline. These change each semester & are available on the Registrar’s web site under the FSU Academic Calendar as well as here.
- Please see the Thesis, Treatise, and Dissertation for all deadlines, required forms, format guides, and other information and resources.
- Schedule defense (at least 2 weeks in advance):
- Reserve room or set up zoom link with your Major Professor.
- Inform Sarah Jahnke of the title, room, and time of defense so that a notification can be sent out to the CS mailing lists.
- Obtain the CS Defense Result Form from Sarah Jahnke (Love 104B) and bring this form to your defense to record the outcome of the defense.
- Have all the Graduate School required forms with you at the defense for signatures. These are all found here.
- Return the CS Defense Result Form to the the Graduate Advisor Email (cs-gradadvisor@fsu.edu).
- Bring all the Graduate School required forms (Final Degree Clearance Form, Manuscript Signature Form, etc.) to Sarah Jahnke. Make sure they have ALL required signatures from your committee chair, committee, and department chair. She will forward the forms on to the dean’s office and/or graduate clearance advisor.
- Make sure your manuscript is submitted to the Graduate Clearance Advisor over in the Graduate School by the deadline listed here.
- Submit an electronic version (PDF) of the project to the Graduate Advisor Email.
- Complete the departmental EXIT survey (sent electronically towards the end of the semester).
- If your employment plans are uncertain when completing the EXIT survey, send your plans to the Graduate Advisor Email when those plans are complete.