A Database of M.A in Education Dissertations at Public State Universities in West Bengal

Abstract

Only a handful of universities across India have dissertation as a mandatory requirement towards awarding a Master's degree in Arts and due to its scanty presence, they are not very well documented and preserved and can found in a corner, on dusty shelves in departmental libraries of universities. An initiative was taken up to document as many of these M.A. dissertations as possible and create a database out of it such that the work done by past students are not lost and the current students have a source of reference for their own research. Dissertations submitted and accepted between 2015-2022 were collected from four public state universities. 15 Metadata fields per sample from a total of 270 dissertations were collected.