University of Electronic Science and Technology of China's online education undergraduate defense mainly examines students' academic performance during their school days, and the defense is not difficult.

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China defense process: 1. The defense work is divided into three levels: group defense, department defense and college defense. All eligible students must take part in group defense, no less than 5% students take part in departmental defense, and about 3% students take part in college defense (random sampling). Each department has set up several defense teams. The defense team consists of three instructors with the title of lecturer or above and 1 secretary, with the team leader 1. The group leader is responsible for arranging the order of defense, organizing students' defense, preparing defense comments, evaluating defense scores and submitting them to the department for summary. In principle, the instructor does not participate in the students' defense under his guidance. 3. Each department organizes departmental defense. Department-level defense team consists of 4 teachers with the title of lecturer or above, secretary 1 person, and team leader 1 person. The team leader is responsible for the department-level defense work, and summarizes the approved design results and defense work to the Academic Affairs Office. 4. The college-level defense is organized and implemented by the Academic Affairs Office. The college-level defense team consists of five teachers with the title of lecturer or above and 1 secretary, with the team leader 1. The team leader is responsible for the organization and management of college-level defense. 5. Students' defense time is generally about 20 minutes, including 10 ~ 15 minutes for thesis presentation and 5 ~ 10 minutes for question and answer.