Spring 2025 Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The records for the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) submitted by the Graduate School for May 2025 Graduations have been processed and loaded into SURFACE, Syracuse University’s Institutional Repository. These include 131 submissions from 47 different departments, including:
African American Studies (2); Anthropology (1); Art (Department of) (1); Art Photography (1); Arts Therapy (2); Biology (2); Biomedical and Chemical Engineering (4); Chemistry (2); Civil and Environmental Engineering (4); Communication and Rhetorical Studies (2); Communication Sciences and Disorders (1); Counseling and Human Services (1); Cultural Foundations of Education (2); Earth and Environmental Sciences (4); Economics (1); Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (3); English (2); Film and Media Arts (7); Geography and the Environment (2); Higher Education (2); History (2); Human Development and Family Science (3); Illustration (5); Information Management (6); Information Science and Technology (5); Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (1); Management (2); Mass Communications (6); Mathematics (6); Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (1); Media Studies (6); Nutrition Science and Dietetic (1); Physics (6); Political Science (2); Psychology (8); Public Administration (2); Reading and Language Arts (3); Religion (2); Social Sciences (3); Sociology (1); Special Education (1); Studio Arts (6); Teaching and Curriculum (1); Teaching and Leadership (3); and Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition (3).
Spring also marked the first entries to SURFACE for the Department of Film and Media Arts following a change in the requirements for graduate programs in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA).
In Spring 2025:
- Eighty (80) dissertations were submitted and their records are available at: https://surface.syr.edu/etd/.
- Seventy-three (73) dissertations were submitted as Open Access (OA) publications, fifty-four (54) of which are currently available for download on SURFACE. Nineteen (19) additional dissertations will be available after an embargo period.
- Seven (7) additional dissertations were submitted but are only available by subscription through ProQuest, though their records are available in SURFACE.
- The OA rate for dissertations this spring exceeded 91%.
- Fifty-one (51) graduate theses were submitted and their records are available at https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/.
- Fifty-one theses were submitted as OA publications, fifty (50) of which are currently available for download on SURFACE. One (1) additional theses will be available after an embargo period.
- The OA rate for theses was over 100%.
- The overall OA rate for all dissertations and theses was approximately 95%.
For anyone desiring additional information at either the departmental or school/college level, please contact the SURFACE team at surface@syr.edu.