LaTeX Template for Texas Tech Thesis and Dissertation
The Graduate School website of Texas Tech University provides a lot of useful resources for masters and doctoral level students. The graduate school provides MS Word templates for theses and dissertations, but unfortunately, the graduate school approved template is not provided. Since I used LaTeX to write my dissertation chapters, I didn't want to convert it to MS Word to comply with the formatting guidelines. I decided to use the LaTeX template currently available in the mathematics and statistics department (Math department also provides templates for LyX users). It took me some time to adjust and modify that template for my needs and after several attempts and correcting several pages of graduate school recommendations I was able to successfully submit the final version of my dissertation.
Since then I received several requests from my friends at the Department of Economics regarding the updated LaTeX template for dissertation. I decided to upload a generic template and make it available for interested graduate students. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions regarding this template and I will keep the files updated based on your comments.
A samplePDF file can be downloaded here.
A LaTeX thesis-dissertation style/template for Texas Tech can be downloaded here.
Note: Most of the professors at the department of economics require 3 chapter dissertation. I wrote all 3 chapters in separate LaTeX files and combined them using \input command. You compile file running file main.tex. While \input command makes life much easier allowing you to write any part of your dissertation in separate files, it has two minor drawbacks. First, it does not allow compiling separate chapters individually (basically when you compile main.tex it will automatically generate PDF of your whole dissertation). Second, the preamble of each chapter should be placed in _packages.tex file.