O The student shall prepare a research plan and submit it to the supervisor.
O The supervisor shall approve the plan after meeting the plans preparation regulations and mechanisms.
O The supervisor shall send it to the Department’s email on Google.
O Designing the e-voting form.
O Presenting the result of the voting to the Department’s Council.
O Appointing a supervisor for the student.
O Submitting the plan to the College’s Council.
O (After the UQU President ratifies the College’s minutes), the Department shall approve three copies from the plan after amendments and seal them: one for the student, another for the supervisor and the third for the department. 
O Submitting a copy from the ratified plan to the College’s Vice Deanship for Postgraduate Studies to present it to the Council of the Postgraduate Studies.

Steps of submitting the thesis and approving the result:

O The approval of the Department’s council on the printing permission.
O Forming a discussion panel after the student submits three copies of the thesis to the department.
O Submitting the discussion panel to the College’s council. 
O Submitting the topic of the discussion panel to the Deanship of Postgraduate Studies.
O The thesis’ copies shall not be handed to the members of the discussion panel until the issuance of the approval of Deanship of Postgraduate Studies on the panel.
O The department shall contact the panellists after 90 days from the issuance of the discussion letter to get the validity of the thesis for discussion report, along with the detailed evaluation form of the thesis.
O Coordinating with the thesis screening committee to set the discussion date, based on the proposed date in the letter of validity of the thesis for discussion.
O Contacting the Deanship of Postgraduate Studies to complete the procedures of reserving a hall for discussion. 
O Presenting the discussion result to the Department’s council to approve the decision of the discussion panel.
O Submitting the decision to the College’s council.