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


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


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.


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


Louisiana Residency Request for LSU Graduate Students.


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Please upload your letters of recommendation here.


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


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


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.


Form to request a defense date change.


Form filled out by faculty to academic renewal.


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.


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.


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.


THIS IS REQUIRED BY THE GRADUATE SCHOOL ON A SEMESTER BASIS, OR EXIT INTERVIEW.


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.


Form to be submitted by graduate student to change department