Dissertation/Master’s Thesis Length?
Just a quick question out of curiosity:
How long were/are you master’s theses and dissertations?
There is such variety at my school regarding length, that I’m just wondering what other people’s projects were like at other schools.
Comments please!
Heather Vaughan said,
October 20th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I think mine was about 60 pages (I wrote it as basically two, 30 page papers). But then I had several appendices and photo section that amped up the page count considerably. Curious to see what others had.
Monica said,
October 20th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
my master’s thesis was also right around 60 pages with a bunch of appendices after, but my dissertation is shaping up to be many hundreds of pages and I’m swimming in it (hopefully not quite drowning). for some it’s my understanding their dissertation is more like 100 pages though.
Lucy said,
October 20th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
In philosophy, it’s typical that it would only be 150-200. Not as much research involved. Which is actually pretty scary!
Lauren said,
October 20th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
My master’s thesis came in around the low 90s, with something like 76 pages of text and the rest consisting of appendices. It was one of the largest on the shelf in my advisor’s lab at the time. Most were around 30 pages. I couldn’t say all I needed to say in any less than 76.
Petra said,
October 21st, 2009 at 11:24 am
My Master’s thesis finished at 85, with photos, and appendecies. Pure text came in around 60.
Monica Sklar said,
October 21st, 2009 at 4:42 pm
anyone else have a very long dissertation?
Carolyn said,
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:33 am
I’m in the middle of writing mine. I’m aiming for about 70 pages of text (give or take), and anticipate several pages of appendices, and lots of photos/illustrations throughout. It was recommended to me by more than one prof to keep it under 100.
Monica Sklar said,
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Carolyn-is that your dissertation or master’s thesis?
crosby said,
October 24th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
mine was about 120 for my MA
Abie said,
October 29th, 2009 at 7:35 am
I’m working on my MA thesis right now (almost done! – one month left!), and it’s turning out to be around 70 pages of text.
Ann said,
October 29th, 2009 at 11:42 am
My MA thesis turned out to be about 75 pages of text, not including the appendices and images. I think technically we were only required to write a thirty or forty page qualifying paper, but my professor and I felt this was appropriate for my topic
Monica Sklar said,
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:48 am
It looks like when it’s all said and done, my dissertation will be about 200-250 pages of writing, with maybe another 25 pages in tables, images, and misc. like table of contents.
Ahmed Khidre said,
October 9th, 2011 at 1:18 am
Hi,
My master thesis is 47 pages for the text and with appendices,acknowledgment, abstract,table of content..etc is around 55. I think no hard rule for the total number of pages, however the quality of the content is more important. Also, the technical impact of how many publications came out of the thesis is very paid attention.