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Final Theses

 REGULATIONS FOR THE PREPARATION, DEFENCE AND STORAGE OF RESEARCH PAPERS OF STUDENTS STUDYING AT VILNIUS UNIVERSITY

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCEDURE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF RESEARCH PAPERS IN VILNIUS UNIVERSITY STUDY INFORMATION SYSTEM

 

Schedule for Final Theses defence and list of defence committees secretaries (2024)

 

 

Submission of the final BA and MA theses is via is.vu.lt

Students must upload their final theses along with abstract and keywords in English and Lithuanian to is.vu.lt and send them via e-mail to the secretary of the Defense Committee no later than May 27, 2024, 23:59.

 

 

Only a digital copy of the final thesis is required. Physical copies do not need to be handed in:

  1. The thesis along with its metadata (abstract and keywords in Lithuanian and English) is uploaded by the student to is.vu.lt. The student confirms that the thesis meets academic honesty principles and sets the embargo period. (IMPORTANT: the name of the file has to be written in Latin characters, the system does not recognise the Cyrillic alphabet.)
  2. Digital copies (in PDF and DOCX formats) have to be submitted from the student's university e-mail to the secretary of the Defence Committee. The letter must contain this text:

I, name and surname,

  1.  guarantee that my final thesis is written honestly and independently, other people have not contributed to its preparation. I have not paid anyone any illegal fees for this thesis. The literature which is directly and indirectly quoted in this work is listed in the List of Literature.
  2. approve that the thesis along with its metadata is uploaded to is.vu.lt

 

The final thesis must have an abstract in Lithuanian and English. The abstract must contain the name of the thesis, the objective, the problem of the research, aims, hypotheses the most important conclusions and the evaluation of the relevance of the research. 

IMPORTANT! Abstract and keywords must be entered to is.vu.lt in Lithuanian and English.

 

Evaluation and defence of the final theses:

  1. The supervisor of the thesis informs the student, the head of the Study Programme Committee and the secretary of the Defence Committee via university e-mail whether the student is admitted to defence no later than May 29, 12 p.m. If the student does not agree with the supervisor's decision, they can contact the Defence Committee.
  2. Study Programme Committee fills in a report and indicates which students have not submitted their final theses, which theses are not admitted to defence, allocates the reviewers and submits the report to the Study Department no later than May 29, 5 p.m.
  3. No later that 24 hours until the sitting of the Defence Committee, the reviewer sends the review with positive and negative aspects of the thesis to the student and the secretary of the Defence Commite via university e-mail.

Students who do not participate in the defence of the thesis, do not submit the thesis or do not defend it are expelled from the university due to academic failure

(if students do not plan to submit their thesis, they can take an academic leave but they must do so until the final theses' submition date (May 27).

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