An example Time-Line for an M.Sc. whose duration is 21 months, about the mean at in Neuroscience UWO .

STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3

List the fixed deadlines

    Year 1    
Month   Thesis deadlines Meeting deadlines Other deadlines
3 Nov 1st Adv Com Meeting    
9 May   Abstract deadline  
    Year 2    
14 Oct     Start thinking of your next position
Apply for scholarship
15 Nov   Go to Meeting #1  
20 April Final Adv. Com. meeting to approve thesis    
21 May Defend thesis    
  June Thesis deadline    

Copyright © 1995
Tutis Vilis
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
University of Western Ontario
London Ontario Canada

Created 28 Sept 1995
Last updated 10 January 2007
Comments welcome: tutis.vilis@schulich.uwo.ca