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- Student forms
- Visiting students
- Faculty member forms
- Master's defences
- PhD dissertations
- Requirements, guidelines, and policies
- Defence information for Faculty and Chairs
- Post-defence
- Awards and scholarships
Student forms
Instructions for digital signatures
The registration form is available on the Office of the Registrar website.
- Program approval forms
- Program revision form
- Student and supervisor letter of understanding
- Student and supervisor relationship document
- Supervisory committee approval form
- Supervisory committee revision form
- Progress report form
- Time extension request form
- Leave of absence request form
- Withdraw with permission request form
- Continuation from a Master's to a PhD program request form
Visiting students
Domestic students
- Complete coursework at UNBC while visting from a university in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba
- Complete coursework at UNBC while visiting from a Canadian university outside of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba
- Conduct research at UNBC while visiting from any Canadian university (no coursework)
International students
- Attend UNBC for the purpose of conducting research (no coursework)
Faculty member forms
Other completion routes
This section applies to students completing a program terminating in anything other than a thesis or dissertation (comprehensive examination, project, portfolio, practicum, major paper).
Master's defences
PhD dissertations
- Request for PhD Defence examination form
- Supervisory Committee - Declaration of readiness for oral examination (PhD)
- Restricted oral examination request form
Requirements, guidelines, policies and copyright information for graduate students
- Our library has great resources for thesis and dissertation formatting
- Pre-requirements of graduate students before defence paperwork submission
- Formatting guidelines for theses, dissertations and projects
- Copyright in theses and dissertations
Defence information for Faculty and Chairs
- Policy on the appointment of an external examiner
- Definition of oral examination results (pass/fail/adjournment)
- Master's defence Chair's guidelines
- PhD defence Chair's guidelines
- Virtual defence Zoom guide
Post-defence
Awards and scholarships
- Award and scholarship forms can be found on the Office of Research and Innovation website.