Thesis data analysis in Bangalore

Where each university first sees your analysis

At Bangalore University, the first real check is the pre-submission colloquium. As per clause 17.3 of the 2024 regulations, the scholar has to show the faculty and supervisors of the PG department how the data was collected, what method was used and how it was analysed. Your tables must be final before that day, because nothing can be fixed in the meeting. Faculty from other specialisations also sit there, so expect simple questions along with the tough ones. One professor may ask why you took a 5-point scale. Another may want to know how the sample size was fixed, or why you went for regression when correlation was there.

VTU works differently. Your analysis goes in front of people earlier, in the two open seminars that come after the viva at the end of coursework. The 2026 checklist asks for signed proof of both seminars, from your head of department and from the head of your research centre. After that, clause 8.1.3 of the VTU regulations wants the synopsis to give a summary of your findings. Adjudicators read these findings first and the thesis only later. If the result looks weak in the synopsis, they carry that impression into the full thesis also.

Many part-time scholars are trying to finish the analysis in the last month before colloquium, and mostly it does not work out. Your guide will have some questions after the first run. Then the data needs cleaning and one more run. Only after these two rounds is the analysis safe to present.

CHRIST: your ethics approval and consent forms go in the thesis

When your data comes from people, CHRIST wants to see that it was collected in the proper way. In its format guidelines (the July 2025 version) there are two appendices which are compulsory if your thesis has human subjects or animals. The first is the approval form from the Research Conduct and Ethics Committee, called RCEC. The other one is the informed consent forms. Before putting them in, take out personal details like phone numbers and email IDs.

For the analysis this matters in a practical way. The data file and the consent forms must agree with each other. Say your SPSS file has 312 respondents. Then the consent forms also should cover 312 people, and every form should be dated after the RCEC approval. Before we start any analysis we tally this count with you once. The same CHRIST guidelines suggest keeping research tools and questionnaires in the appendices too, numbered APPENDIX A, APPENDIX B and so on. That means the questionnaire you used for the analysis becomes part of the thesis as well.

MBA students: Chapter 4 is 40% of the report

The BCU MBA guidelines we could find give 40% of the report length to data analysis and interpretation. This is for MBA students at Bengaluru City University. They are from CBCS 2019–20, posted by a college in Jayanagar. For a 100-page report, that comes to around 40 pages of tables and their explanation.

Filling 40 pages with percentage tables will not help you with the external examiner. What we suggest is less tables. Each table should connect to one objective, and where the objective is asking for a test, put the test there. Say you want to show that income group and brand choice are associated. A single chi-square test will tell the examiner more than six pie charts can. The BCU MBA guidelines also say to keep the filled questionnaires with you till results are declared, because examiners can ask for them in the viva.

If you have doubts on which test suits which objective, see our guide on choosing a statistical test.

IISc and RGUHS: two rules that affect how you write up results

The IISc Student Information Handbook treats AI-written text as plagiarism, and this includes your results chapter. Using AI for correcting grammar and clarity is allowed there. If you use it for anything beyond that, you have to disclose it and get your supervisor’s approval first. If you paste the SPSS output into a chatbot and copy its interpretation straight into the results chapter, that is a real risk at IISc. Write the interpretation yourself, from notes that you actually understand.

RGUHS has a different rule. Under its Revised Ordinance 2021, four papers in indexed journals are needed, and only after that you can submit the thesis. Your name should come first on each paper, or you should be the corresponding author, and at least one paper should appear in a journal of RGUHS itself. For a clinical scholar, the analysis must be planned around these four papers from the beginning. Decide which outcome goes into which paper, and check whether the same patients will come in two papers. Do this planning before you run even the first table.

How it works from Bangalore

Send us your objectives, questionnaire and data file, and tell us which university gives your degree. If a date is already fixed for the colloquium or an open seminar, send that date also.

From our side, first you will get an analysis plan showing which test we will use for which objective. The analysis plan need to go to your guide before we run anything. After the guide agrees, we clean the data, run the analysis and lay out the tables in your university’s format. Then on a video call we explain every table to you, at a time that fits around your job. Many Bengaluru scholars prefer a Saturday for this call. You can record it and watch it again before the colloquium.

We never add, delete or change any response to get a better result. If some hypothesis is not supported by the data, it stays like that in the thesis only. Then we sit with you and work out the reasons it may have come that way, so you can write them in your discussion.