After GS receives the documents as stipulated here in correct order, GS will present the recommendation of the BoE together with the documents to GSB, who will consider and ratify the recommendation of the BoE as deemed appropriate.

The schedule of award ratification is available at https://www.polyu.edu.hk/gs/graduates/award-and-parchment/. 

Once the recommendation is ratified by GSB, the GS will send an electronic copy of the final approved thesis to the University Library for permanent preservation, and for processing to make it accessible in the PolyU Electronic Theses Database, and publicly available in the PolyU's institutional repository for worldwide retrieval.