CTAN update: mitthesis
Date: February 2, 2026 9:10:54 AM CET
John H. Lienhard submitted an update to the
mitthesis
package.
Version: 1.22 2026-01-31
License: mit
Summary description: A LaTeX template for an MIT thesis
Announcement text:
The mitthesis class formats an MIT thesis or dissertation according to the current requirements of the MIT Libraries. This template is appropriate for MIT theses of all types. It can be adapted for other institutions, if desired. This update includes extensive changes to the css style file for better html rendering, with a class-defined tagging namespace. The class now includes internal definitions of \subfigure and \subcaption; the subcaption package has been dropped. The caption package now loads only as design option and only for LaTeX formats older than 2025/11/01. Various additional changes were made to the fontset files and the design files. See the README for more details. The mitthesis class supports tagged PDF (UA-2, A-4F, WTPDF-1) when using LaTeX formats of 2025/06/01 or later. TeX Live 2022, or a later distribution, is required.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/mitthesis The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mitthesis/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
The mitthesis class formats an MIT thesis or dissertation according to the current requirements of the MIT Libraries. This template is appropriate for MIT theses of all types. It can be adapted for other institutions, if desired. This update includes extensive changes to the css style file for better html rendering, with a class-defined tagging namespace. The class now includes internal definitions of \subfigure and \subcaption; the subcaption package has been dropped. The caption package now loads only as design option and only for LaTeX formats older than 2025/11/01. Various additional changes were made to the fontset files and the design files. See the README for more details. The mitthesis class supports tagged PDF (UA-2, A-4F, WTPDF-1) when using LaTeX formats of 2025/06/01 or later. TeX Live 2022, or a later distribution, is required.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/mitthesis The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mitthesis/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
mitthesis – A LaTeX template for an MIT thesis
This class provides a LaTeX template for an MIT thesis or dissertation formatted according to the requirements of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries (as posted in 2025): https://libraries.mit.edu/distinctive-collections/thesis-specs/
This template is appropriate for an MIT thesis or MIT dissertation of any type.
This template works with either pdfLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.
The bibliography may be prepared with biblatex/biber.
The class requires TeX Live 2022 or later distributions.
This template replaces the older version of mitthesis.cls, which was first composed in the 1980s.
| Package | mitthesis |
| Version | 1.22 2026-01-31 |
| Copyright | 2024–2026 John Lienhard |
| Maintainer | John H. Lienhard |