This might be a silly question but why are theses so long (200+ pages)? Someone just told me that they finished their 213 pages-long bachelor’s thesis, but I‘m confused about who the audience would be. Who would spend so much time reading a 213 thesis of a bachelor student? Do people actually read them? What is the purpose of some theses being so long. Also, on a Masters level, does the long length not make important information inaccessible, because it‘s buried deep down in those hundreds of pages?
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They don’t have to be, it just depends on the research topic and the direction of the supervising professor.
For a contrasting reference point, my master’s thesis (Electrical Engineering) was only 16 pages long, and that included a couple of half page graphics and many equations.
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