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Form to be filled out by graduate faculty for defense results.


This form is to Request for Degree Candidate Deletion or Title Change Form.


Form to request a defense date change.


Early in each semester or summer term, there is a deadline for submitting the “Master’s Application for Degree” to the Graduate School. Master’s candidates are required to submit the “Application for Degree” forms by the semester’s calendar deadline. Please attach form to this request.


This form must be submitted to The Graduate School three weeks prior to the defense date or by current semester deadline for graduation.


Students must have earned 9 hours of graduate residence credit in a degree program at LSU and be in academic good standing before submitting this form. Please attach form to this request.


This form is intended for students who are changing from a Master’s to a PhD or vice versa.


Please upload your letters of recommendation here.


Credit for individual courses taken at LSU more than five years before the termination of a program may be revalidated by the student’s graduate committee through an examination. Please attach form to this request.


Verification by the appropriate faculty and department concentration coordinator, must be submitted whenever the student has met concentration requirements. Please attach form to this request.


Form accessible to faculty to obtain to submit to the graduate school for their master student's thesis approval.


This form must be submitted to The Graduate School no later than the last day to add courses for the semester in which graduate credit is requested and student’s last semester of enrollment as an undergraduate. Please attach form to this request.


For faculty and staff use only. Master's student's committee signs the form when the student's thesis has been approved by the committee. Submit completed form by email as a PDF to gradsvcs@lsu.edu.


This form is for a student to petition scholastic reinstatement.


Early in each semester or summer term, there is a deadline for submitting the “Online Application for Degree Certificate” to the Graduate School. Master’s candidates are required to submit the “Online Application for Degree Certificate” forms by the semester’s calendar deadline. Please attach form to this request.


Early in each semester or summer term, there is a deadline for submitting the “Doctorate's Application for Degree” to the Graduate School. Master’s candidates are required to submit the “Application for Degree” forms by the semester’s calendar deadline. Please attach form to this request.


From to be filled out by graduate faculty for degree candidate/ title change


Online portal where feedback in the form of the survey where students who have earned doctorate degrees from LSU can submit feedback about their experience over their LSU academic career.


A student who is not listed as first author of a previously published, jointly written article used as part of his or her dissertation must submit this form to the LSU Graduate School prior to uploading the dissertation to Digital Commons. Please attach form to this request.


Form to be submitted if departments with approved concentrations are responsible for verifying concentration requirements for their students. Please attach form to this request.