Doctoral Dissertation Specifications

Please note that your paper must be written in Google Docs versus Microsoft Word, and when shared, must be shared with editing privileges.

Your dissertation can be as little as 5,000 words, or up to 25,000 words, double spaced, in size 13 or 13.5 in Century Gothic font on a holistic subject of your choice, most likely an area you will specialize.

Your dissertation word limit may include footnotes and end notes but excludes appendices, references, and a required bibliography. 

In addition, figures, tables, and images should be counted as the equivalent of 75 words for each page, or part of a page, that they occupy with a limit of 12 images and or graphs.

See our blog for some graduate examples. Please note, the dissertation project is new, and we have recently switched platforms, so not every graduate has one or is yet published.