University of California thesis LaTeX template
University of California theses and dissertations
Start a paper with this template
Free account. Your paper compiles in the browser on TeX Live 2026.
What it is
- Class
- ucthesis
- Version tested
- TeX Live's current
- Tested with
- ucthesis 2004/12/19 v3.2 University of California Thesis Class in TeX Live 2026 as installed where we tested (tlmgr revision 77655)
- Licence of the class
- LPPL 1.3
- Licence of our starter
- CC0-1.0 (written by Sapience from the class documentation; use it freely)
- Official source
- ctan.org/pkg/ucthesis
How the files arrive
The class is part of TeX Live 2026, which Papers compiles with, so nothing is copied: your paper gets our starter files (main.tex and a refs.bib with one example citation).
Format
The university's class as it is in TeX Live; check the graduate school's current rules
The venue's own instructions are the rule: ctan.org/pkg/ucthesis.
Thesis
Thesis (memoir)
Thesis (KOMA-Script scrbook)
Thesis (classicthesis)
Thesis (cleanthesis)
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