Once you have passed the graduation application procedure, you can arrange for your Oral Defence.
1. Get permission from your advisor(s) that your thesis is ready for oral defense.
2. Build a committee with the help of your advisor(s).
3. Ask your advisor(s) and the committees for their date and time availability and schedule the oral defense.
4. Ask your advisor(s) for help to reserve a examination venue.
When building the committees, please keep the following guidelines in mind:
1. The Committee should be 3-5 members: Advisor(s) + 2 Committee Members.
2. One Committee Member (other than the Advisor) must be from outside the GMBA program.
3. Members should have one or more of the following traits:
- Current or past (assistant/associate) professor
- Current or past (assistant/associate researcher of Academia Sinica of Taiwan)
- A Ph.D. with significant academic achievement
- An accomplished expert in the thesis-related field
- A committee member cannot be your family member
*The Committee must be confirmed and invited by the advisor(s), not the students.
1. Submit your thesis to your advisor and all committee members.
2. Unless otherwise agreed, ensure the committee members receive a hard and soft copy. If in hard copy, be sure to bind it as a booklet.
3. Check with your advisor and committee members whether they need any special arrangements such as parking. If yes, notify GMBA Office for a free ticket.
4. Ensure that the examination venue is booked.
5. If your thesis is submitted in less than 7 working days, the committee members reserve the right to cancel the oral defense due to insufficient notice.
6. Complete Step 3 in the GMBA graduation system (Spring 2026) to download relevant documents for the Oral Defense
7. Complete the Thesis Similarity Check-Turnitin (See Below for Guidance)
In Taiwan, all postgraduate students need to have 6 hours of academic ethics course as a foundation to provide a good and ethical thesis. Before they graduate, their thesis has to do a similarity checking, and GMBA students must reach a plagiarism score no higher than 15%, excluding all references, correctly cited in-text quotations, and sources less than 1% as determined by the preset Turnitin filter.
When to do it?
You need to perform the turnitin check twice: before and after the oral defense. The second check is especially for the fianl version of your thesis.
How to do it?
Go to Turnitin website and go to login page to create your own account by using NTU student ID. Register 【114-2學期GMBA論文相似度比對Thesis Similarity Check】by searching the course ID 【52142889】and applying the registration password【NTUGMBA1】. For graduating in Spring 2026, please go to 【Thesis Originality Comparison_2026 Spring】to perform the turnitin check. You can run the check multiple times and the report can be generated and downloaded shortly. Do not run the check-up more than twice within a short period of time, otherwise the report will not be available for at least 24 hours after your most recent check.
* Highly recommend you to read Turnitin Feedback Studio - User Guide (Student) first and follow the instructions.
** For customer service of Turnitin, email service@igrouptaiwan.com.
What should I do with the report?
Please check if your percentages comply with the GMBA requirements.
By clicking on the percentage, you will see the breakdown. Check with your wording or sentences and see how they are duplicated with some other papers. Make the corrections and reupload again.
Please upload your report back to GMBA graduation system (Spring 2026) together with your final version of thesis. Please note that we need a report with a "percentage", not a receipt.
After your submission, you can download and print out your Oral Defense Documents packet from the GMBA graduation system (Spring 2026), including:
1. Master's Thesis Acceptance Certification by Oral Defense Committee (sample)
2. Thesis Oral Defense Grade Form (sample)
3. Advisor, Thesis Examination, and Transportation Pay List (sample)
4. List of the Examination Board (sample)
5. Statement of Academic Ethics and Originality Comparison & POD Checklist (sample)
6. Delaying Public Access to Theses/Dissertations (optional) (new school policy starting from Academic Year 2025)*
* If the thesis fulfills one of the following conditions and you want to delay public access to it, you MUST download the approval form, print out 3 copies and ask all the oral defense committees to review and sign on all 3 forms on the oral defense day.
1. Contains information pertaining to the secret 涉及機密
2. Filing for patent registration 涉及專利事項
3. Withheld according to the law 依法不得提供事項
** Tips to know:
1. When preparing snacks/lunchboxes, be sure to consider the dietary preferences of your committees by checking with your advisors or the GMBA office.
2. Providing printouts of the PPT slides to the committees may be helpful for them to write down comments.
3. It is possible to have a rehearsal of your oral defense in advance. You may visit the venue during the office hours to familiarise yourself with the projecting equipment set-up inside the room. First, check the availability of the venue in the system【教室會議室借用系統meeting room booking system】and then consult the GMBA Office for the booking.
4. Read rediShow Wireless Projector User Manual to learn how the projecting system works.
1. Arrive at least 30 mins. early at the venue and ask the maintenance office staff on the first floor to open the door for you. It is not ok to arrive there later than your committees.
2. Ensure all equipment* (AC, Projector, laptop, PowerPoint slide deck, etc.) works.
3. Ensure that you have brought a laptop and have any needed cables to connect to the projector and an AC charger for your battery.
4. Ensure that you have printed the Thesis Oral Defense documents packet.
5. Ensure that you have prepared hard copies of your thesis and slides (if needed).
6. Ensure that you have prepared anything else as conferred with your advisor, e.g., snacks, pencils, notepads, parking passes for off-campus committee members...
*Most of the class and discussion rooms are equipped with a projector with a VGA slot and or USB slot. Some facilities also have wireless connection capabilities. You must bring either your own laptop or borrow one from the GMBA Office.
