Thesis Proposal

Students must finish all steps within 2 years.

  1. Find the topic of interest – as well as objectives, methodology and references – and notify MABE office.
  2. MABE assigns an advisor to the student.  They will work together to develop a proposal.
  3. An advisor reports about the student and the proposal to MABE committees.  The committees will assign a thesis chairperson and thesis committees.
  4. Student makes an appointment and notifies MABE for defending a proposal. 
  5. Faculty of Economics approves of the proposal.
  6. Upload your proposal to the iThesis website.
  7. Ask your advisor to approve your proposal in the iThesis website.

Full Thesis

Students are required to present and publish their research. This step is time-consuming. Make sure to check the date for submitting a complete thesis from Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University, in each semester.

  1. Prepare a usable draft final of the thesis.
  2. Dissemination of a paper derived from the draft final. 
    Either (a) find the conference (must be organized by either several local organizations or international organizations and have a proceeding) to present a paper
    or (b) find a journal (from the Faculty’s approved list) to publish your paper.
  3. Provide the proceeding of the conference or letter of confirmation of publishing your paper to the advisor.
  4. Make an appointment to defend the thesis with your thesis committees. (requires a completion of No.5 above and no less than 60 days after an approval of a proposal by the Faculty of Economics)
  5. Make corrections to the thesis according to recommendations from thesis committees.
  6. Check the thesis with TurnItIn.
  7. Upload the final thesis to the iThesis website.
  8. Ask your advisor to approve the thesis on the iThesis website.
  9. Print your thesis and the thesis committees page for the Dean and all committees to sign.
  10. Submit the complete thesis to Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University for graduation.