Taking Guangdong University of Finance and Economics as an example, the filing period of graduation thesis (design) is five years, that is, the graduation thesis will be handled by the Academic Affairs Office for five years after the students leave school and will not be retained; Students are required to submit another graduation thesis (design) with excellent comprehensive evaluation results and store it in the school archives.

The electronic documents of graduation thesis (design) are summarized in the computer according to the order of student number, and the name is "student class+student number+name" (the folder contains all the contents of student thesis and can be divided into two files, the part without page number on the cover is named "cover" and the part with page number is named "body").

The significance of graduation thesis:

Writing graduation thesis is an important measure to test students' academic performance in school and an important link to improve teaching quality. College students must finish the task of writing graduation thesis before graduation. To apply for a degree, you must submit the corresponding degree thesis, and you can get a degree only after your defense is passed.

It can be said that graduation thesis is the intermediary and bridge to end college study and life and go to society. Graduation thesis is the first exposure of college students' talents, a weighty answer to the motherland and the people, and a register for joining the cause of socialist modernization.

Although a graduation thesis can't fully reflect a person's talent, it may not directly bring huge benefits to the society and have a pioneering impact on the major. However, practice has proved that writing graduation thesis is an important link to improve teaching quality and an important measure to ensure outstanding talents.