MU theses and dissertations by department
To find theses and dissertations by year, see the Graduate Studies collection. You may also explore MU theses and dissertation by department by choosing a department from the list below. NOTE: This page was created in October 2016. We are still refining it. Please send suggestions and corrections.
- Accountancy
- Agricultural Economics
- Agricultural Education
- Animal Sciences (Includes Zoology, Dairy Science)
- Anthropology
- Architectural Studies - Masters Thesis
- Architectural Studies - Doctoral Dissertations
- Art
- Art History and Archaeology
- Biochemistry
- Biochemistry 2
- Biological Engineering
- Biological Engineering - CAFNR
- Biological Sciences
- Biomedical Sciences (Includes Pathology, Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine, Veterinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Business Administration
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Classical Studies (Includes Classical Languages and Archaeology)
- Communication
- Communication Science and Disorders
- Computer Science
- Consumer and Family Economics (Now called Personal Financial Planning)
- Data Science and Analytics
- Economics
- Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (Includes Higher and Continuing Education, Curriculum and Instruction, and Education)
- Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- English
- Exercise Physiology (Includes Nutrition Area Program)
- Finance (Includes Business Administration)
- Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences (Includes Zoology)
- Food Science (Includes Home Economics, Botany, Food Science, Dairy Husbandry, Dairy Science
- Forestry
- Genetics Area Program
- Geography
- Geological Sciences
- German and Russian Studies (Includes Russian and Slavonic Studies, German, Germanic Languages)
- Health Informatics Program
- Health Management and Informatics
- Health Sciences
- History
- Human Development and Family Studies
- Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
- Information Science and Learning Technologies
- Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program
- Journalism
- Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum (Includes Career and Technical Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Education)
- Management (Includes Business Administration)
- Marketing (Includes Business Administration)
- Mathematics
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
- Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
- Music
- Neuroscience
- Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute
- Nursing
- Parks, Recreation and Tourism
- Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
- Personal Financial Planning (Formerly known as Consumer and Family Economics)
- Philosophy
- Physics and Astronomy
- Plant Sciences (Includes Horticulture, Entomology, Dairy Science, Agronomy, Botany, Plant Pathology, Plant, Insect and Microbial Sciences, Soils
- Political Science (Includes Public Law)
- Psychological Sciences
- Public Administration
- Religious Studies
- Romance Languages and Literature (Includes French and Italian, Spanish)
- Rural Sociology
- Social Work
- Sociology
- Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences (Includes Agriculture)
- Special Education
- Statistics
- Teacher Development Program (Includes Curriculum and Instruction)
- Textile and Apparel Management (Includes Human Environmental Sciences)
- Theater
- Veterinary Medicine and Surgery
- Veterinary Pathobiology
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