Please be aware that the information provided is meant as a guide only. Please check with your supervisor, department, and faculty what is correct before you submit.
After the submission, examination and revision of your dissertation/thesis, you can have it bound. The University of Pretoria (UP) offers a binding service to all UP staff, students, as well as private clients.
Procedure:
For more information, please visit the Bindery webpage.
Policy on Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The University of Pretoria supports free access to research literature for all researchers worldwide and takes responsibility for the dissemination of its own research outputs. Because theses and dissertations are not formally published it is even more important that the University itself should provide access to them.
This policy provides direction for the archiving and dissemination of theses and dissertations resulting from postgraduate work done by University of Pretoria students.
The policy aims to ensure that
Have you graduated but not yet seeing your thesis or dissertation on UPSpace?
Under normal circumstances you would have been able to self-submit online or send electronic and hardbound copies of your thesis or dissertation to your Faculty Administration. Unfortunately, since the national lock-down, these submission processes have been deterred leading to a wave of requests for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) to be opened to public. To do this, we need your help.
If you have self-submitted through UPSpace, please send us an electronic copy of the submission form you filed (signed by yourself and your supervisor). Once we have verification that you have graduated from your Faculty Administration, we can make your document available on UPSpace.
If you have not yet submitted your thesis or dissertation to UPSpace or only submitted copies on CD/flash to Faculty Admin before the lock-down, please self-submit your work to UPSpace and send a copy of your submission form to Mr Tlou Mathiba (tlou.mathiba@up.ac.za) so that we may speed up the process of opening your thesis/dissertation on UPSpace.
Please note: hardbound copies can only be submitted once the lock-down is lifted.
For detailed information regarding the submission process and other administrative aspects of the submission/examination of your research project, please see your faculty Postgraduate Guide:
If your faculty Postgraduate Guide is not listed above, please contact your Postgraduate Administrator for the relevant information.