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Select your expected graduation term below to see specific dates concerning when to apply for graduation, complete your examinations and reports, submit approved thesis and dissertation, commencement, and the end-of semester deadline.

¹ Applications to graduate include current semester or End-of-Semester deadline. Applications must be received by close of business.

²The final examination deadline refers both to the completion of the exam itself, as well as the recording of satisfactory votes from all committee members on the Report on Final Exam form on Grad Forms.

Format reviews of theses and dissertations may occur electronically or in person at the Graduate School during announced business hours. Both options require submitting a digital version of the dissertation or DMA document draft in a PDF format to 
grad-schoolformatreview@osu.edu . 
Documents should be submitted for the review at least two weeks prior to the student’s final exam date. 

³ Approved documents must be submitted via OhioLINK and accepted by the Graduate School by the close of business before the Report on Final Document will be processed.

⁴ Students not attending commencement must complete the commencement section on the Application to Graduate to indicate how their diploma should be disbursed.

⁵ A degree applicant who does not meet published graduation deadlines but who does complete all degree requirements by the last business day prior to the first day of classes for the following semester or summer term will graduate the following semester or summer term without registering or paying fees