University Thesis LaTeX Templates (2026)
Most universities require a specific thesis format. Exact margins, an official title page, and a set citation style. These free LaTeX thesis templates come pre-configured for real universities, so you write your dissertation instead of fighting formatting.
Each opens on LetX and compiles in your browser, ideal for long documents where a local TeX install is a hassle and co-advisors want to follow along.
Find your university
There are 87 thesis templates here, nearly all of them one institution's format, across 22 countries. A thesis format is set by one graduate school and accepted by one graduate school, so start with yours; if it is not listed, filter by region and take a neighbour your department will recognise.
Find your university's thesis template
All 87 are free and open in the browser.
Filter by region, country and degree. Every one compiles as it stands, and every one is editable if your department has its own rule.
Showing 87 of 87 templates
- BracU Thesis TemplateBangladesh
- Harvard ThesisUnited States
- MIT ThesisUnited States
- CUET ThesisBangladesh
- IIT Bombay ThesisIndia
- NUS ThesisSingapore
- BUET Undergraduate ThesisBangladesh
- BUET ThesisBangladesh
- Cambridge ThesisUnited Kingdom
- DU ThesisBangladesh
- ETH Zürich ThesisSwitzerland
- Oxford ThesisUnited Kingdom
- IIT Madras ThesisIndia
- ClassicThesis
- IIT Delhi ThesisIndia
- IUT ThesisBangladesh
- Stanford ThesisUnited States
- NTU ThesisSingapore
- SUST ThesisBangladesh
- UC Berkeley ThesisUnited States
- IISc ThesisIndia
- KUET ThesisBangladesh
- University of Toronto Thesis (Class Example)Canada
- BUET Postgraduate ThesisBangladesh
- IIT Kanpur ThesisIndia
- RUET ThesisBangladesh
- RWTH Aachen ThesisGermany
- Universitas Indonesia ThesisIndonesia
- IIT Roorkee ThesisIndia
- UTokyo ThesisJapan
- IIT Guwahati ThesisIndia
- Cornell ThesisUnited States
- TU Delft ThesisNetherlands
- Yale ThesisUnited States
- Delhi University ThesisIndia
- UCL ThesisUnited Kingdom
- TUM ThesisGermany
- BITS Pilani ThesisIndia
- Caltech ThesisUnited States
- UniMelb ThesisAustralia
- IIT Kharagpur ThesisIndia
- ANU ThesisAustralia
- CMU ThesisUnited States
- Imperial College London ThesisUnited Kingdom
- Tsinghua ThesisChina
- EPFL ThesisSwitzerland
- NIT ThesisIndia
- IIIT Hyderabad ThesisIndia
- LMU Munich ThesisGermany
- Princeton ThesisUnited States
- DTU Delhi ThesisIndia
- Wits University ThesisSouth Africa
- UMich ThesisUnited States
- University of Waterloo ThesisCanada
- SNU ThesisSouth Korea
- UBC ThesisCanada
- UofT ThesisCanada
- VIT Vellore ThesisIndia
- Edinburgh ThesisUnited Kingdom
- UNSW ThesisAustralia
- Cairo University ThesisEgypt
- HKU ThesisHong Kong
- KU Leuven ThesisBelgium
- UCT ThesisSouth Africa
- Chulalongkorn ThesisThailand
- Johns Hopkins ThesisUnited States
- KAUST ThesisSaudi Arabia
- Peking ThesisChina
- Columbia ThesisUnited States
- Georgia Tech ThesisUnited States
- Monash University ThesisAustralia
- NUST Pakistan ThesisPakistan
- KFUPM ThesisSaudi Arabia
- UCLA Thesis & DissertationUnited States
- UPenn ThesisUnited States
- King Saud University ThesisSaudi Arabia
- Kyoto University ThesisJapan
- University of Malaya ThesisMalaysia
- McGill University ThesisCanada
- Northwestern ThesisUnited States
- Yonsei University ThesisSouth Korea
- UChicago DissertationUnited States
- Brown University ThesisUnited States
- Duke University ThesisUnited States
- Korea University ThesisSouth Korea
- University of Sydney ThesisAustralia
- NYU ThesisUnited States
The templates
MIT Thesis
MIT thesis format with the required title page and departmental front matter.
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Stanford Thesis
Stanford dissertation layout following the university's formatting rules.
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Cambridge Thesis
A Cambridge-style thesis template with title page and chapter styling.
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Which one should you pick?
| If you are at... | Use |
|---|---|
| MIT / Stanford / Harvard | That university's thesis template |
| Oxford / Cambridge / ETH | The matching UK/EU template |
| An IIT / IISc / NUS | The matching institute template |
| BUET / DU (Bangladesh) | BUET or DU thesis template |
| A university not listed | classicthesis (universal) |
Browse them all, plus 1000+ other free LaTeX templates, at letx.app/templates. Everything is MIT-licensed and compiles in your browser in seconds.
Frequently asked questions
Is there an official LaTeX template for my university?
Many universities publish or endorse a LaTeX thesis class. We host ready-to-use templates for MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, ETH, the IITs, IISc, NUS, BUET and more: each pre-set with the required margins, title page and front matter.
What is the best template for a PhD thesis?
If your university has a dedicated template, use it. Otherwise classicthesis is the most popular general-purpose choice: elegant, well-documented, and accepted almost everywhere.
How do I write my thesis in LaTeX without installing TeX?
Open a thesis template on LetX and click "Open as Template". You can write, compile and collaborate with your advisor in the browser, no multi-gigabyte TeX Live install.
Can LaTeX handle a long thesis with many chapters?
Yes. LaTeX is built for this. Chapters live in separate files, cross-references and the bibliography update automatically, and the document stays consistent however long it gets.
Will these templates meet my university's formatting rules?
The university-specific templates are pre-configured to their published requirements. Always check your graduate school's current guidelines, since rules change; the source is easy to adjust.
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Written by Shihab Shahriar Antor , AI Engineer & Founder of Shahriar Labs. Builder of LetX (collaborative LaTeX) and offSchool (SSC science and maths, learned through simulations).