average dissertation length

On R is My Friend, as a way to procrastinate on his own dissertation, beckmw took a look at dissertation length via the digital archives at the University of Minnesota.

I’ve selected the top fifty majors with the highest number of dissertations and created boxplots to show relative distributions. Not many differences are observed among the majors, although some exceptions are apparent. Economics, mathematics, and biostatistics had the lowest median page lengths, whereas anthropology, history, and political science had the highest median page lengths. This distinction makes sense given the nature of the disciplines.

In exceptional circumstances, the Dean—Wellington Faculty of Graduate Research may grant permission for you to submit a longer thesis. You will need to apply for permission to exceed the word limit well in advance of submission.
Research theses have a word limit that you must comply with.

• Table of contents with hyperlinks to particular chapters
• Page numbering (including roman numeral front matter)
• Reference examples
• Average word count per section
• Chapters 1-5 guidelines
• APA 6th Edition formatting
• Automatic Bookmarks (clickable to section)
• Definition of terms

The Dissertation Template includes:

Refences:

http://www.wgtn.ac.nz/fgr/current-phd/thesis-guidelines/thesis-length
http://www.statisticssolutions.com/dissertation-template/
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~cs226/wiki/index.php/Help_and_Guidelines