Submission of a master’s degree thesis or a research paper

Submission date and time

When submitting a master’s degree thesis or a research paper, students are required to obtain their academic supervisors’ approval, and submit it with a thesis abstract. The submission schedule in this academic year is described below. Please note that a thesis or a paper can be accepted only on the date and at the time indicated below. 

When students do not submit a master’s degree thesis or a research paper, they need to take one of the following procedures for the next academic year or semester: “repeating (extension of the period of enrollment),” “withdrawal from graduate school” or “absence from graduate school.” Relevant students are required to notify the office in charge by early July (for semester system Course students only) or early January.


Submission date and time
Completion in September: in early July
Completion in March: in January, 2025

*Notice later

▽Place of submission
Administration Section, Asaka Campus Office



Documents to be submitted

For further information on the submission of a master’s degree thesis or a research paper, students must refer to the Master’s Degree Thesis/Research Paper Submission Guidelines, which will be distributed in middle of May (for students expecting to complete their course in September) or in middle of November (for students expecting to complete their course in March).

Notes on the preparation of a master’s degree thesis or a research paper

A master’s degree thesis and its abstract should be prepared by PC. (For a research paper, see the pages in which the submission requirements provided by the relevant Courses.) The format, number of pages, and number of characters are described below. The “Master’s Degree Thesis/Research Paper Submission Guidelines” discloses further information on a master’s degree thesis and an abstract such as the required number of copies, how to bind the thesis, if you need to submit the hardcover thesis or not after submitting the temporal bound thesis, etc.

Notes on preparation of a master’s degree thesis and an abstract

Course of Life Sciences
Number of pages/characters:No limit (in Japanese or English)
Size:A4
Format:Horizontal writing
Bookbinding:Temporal binding permitted

Thesis examiners

When accepting a master’s degree thesis, the graduate school committee elects an academic supervisor and 1 or more instructors in charge of courses related to the relevant thesis (an instructor in charge of research advising must be included) as thesis examiners. One of them is appointed as the chief thesis examiner and the rest of them as deputy thesis examiners through discussions among the committee members. Moreover, instructors in charge of courses related to the relevant thesis and other members (including adjunct lecturers) may be added as deputy thesis examiners through discussions among the committee members, if this is necessary for the review of the thesis.

Final examination

Notification of the pass-fail judgment of a master’s degree thesis or a research paper

Handling of a thesis or paper that has passed the review and the final examination 

The thesis or paper that has passed the review and the final examination will be stored, and made available for public perusal at Toyo University.

Requirements and review criteria for master's degree thesis