Graduate Student Success Center
Success isn’t just earning your degree, it’s gaining the academic and professional skills you need to excel in your professional pathway. We’re here to help you every step of the way.
About the Graduate Student Success Center
The Graduate Student Success Center is here to support you through all stages of your oral defense, thesis and dissertation writing, and the final document submission process.
Recorded Presentations
Access Graduate Student Success Center recorded presentations, workshops, and resources at any time.
Resource Checklist
Working on your thesis or dissertation? Stay up-to-date on deadlines, forms, and access virtual writing assistance!
Specialized Writing Help
Summer is an excellent time to brush up on writing skills or get ahead on projects and proposals. Bronco Finish Line is Boise State Graduate College’s writing assistance program designed specifically for graduate students. Whether you would like to brainstorm an idea for a project, or you have a final draft that needs polishing, our writing coaches can help with any step of the writing process. Visit our Writing Assistance page to improve your writing skills.
Remote Services
The Graduate Student Success Center is currently providing all services remotely. Please review our updated programs and processes below and contact us at success@boisestate.edu with any questions!
Graduate Defenses
Graduate defenses are open to the public and may be accessed via Zoom meetings. For assistance scheduling a remote defense, please contact success@boisestate.edu.
Defense Procedures
Review updated information related to remote graduate defenses by visiting the Remote Defense Procedures FAQ.
Writing Consultations
Graduate Student Success Center writing coaches are available to take appointments and graduate students can schedule online consultations at anytime.
Graduate Research Snapshot

Last month, Boise State University Theses and Dissertations had 17779 full-text downloads. View the top downloaded papers:
Cancel Culture: A Qualitative Analysis of the Social Media Practice of Canceling
Samantha Haskell
Communication, M.A.
(2319 downloads)
The Relevance of the Constitution in Today’s Society
Matthew Reiber
Political Science, M.A.
(976 downloads)
Hand Gesture Recognition for Sign Language Transcription
Iker Vazquez Lopez
Computer Science, M.S.
(489 downloads)