[Tex/LaTex] Help designing a Title Page for thesis

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I'm having trouble getting my title page to look just right. Few questions:

How can I along the text such that it doesn't shift?
I don't want to make use of absolute coordinates (i.e. I had yshift=-15cm before, but it got really complicated to style the whole page at once).
Is the approach I'm taking the best? Maybe there is a better way.

Here is what I need it to look like (without the top two lines, of course):

but here is what I got:

My code is as follows:

% Title Page Variables
\title{Mining Partially Ordered Sequential Rules on Unbounded Data}
\author{Andriy Drozdyuk}
\def\previousDegrees{Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2001}
\def\subtitleTemplate{A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
       of the Requirements for the Degree of}
\def\degree{Masters of Computer Science}
\def\gau{Computer Science}
\def\supervisorMain{Michael W. Fleming, Ph.D., Professor, Faculty of Computer Science}
\def\supervisor{Scott Buffett, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Computer Science}

\def\board{Name, Degree, Department, Chair}
\def\examiner{Name, Degree, Department/Field, Institution PhD Only}
\def\submissionDate{January, 2017}
\def\gradYear{2017}
\def\unb{\MakeUppercase{The University of New Brunswick}}
% Title Page Sizes
\def\mytitlewidth{12cm}

% Title Page Layout

\makeatletter
\begin{titlepage}
  % Remember where the picture is relative to the page
  % Overlay keeps the bounding box under control - prevents growing
  % to encompass the referenced points (e.g. current page)
  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]

    \node[yshift=-6cm] at (current page.north) (title) [text width=\mytitlewidth, align=center]{\LARGE\MakeUppercase{\@title}};
    \node[yshift=-1cm] at (title) (by) [text width=\mytitlewidth, align=center]{by};
    \node[yshift=-1cm] at (by) (author) {\Large\@author};

    \node[yshift=-1cm] at (author) (previousDegrees) {\previousDegrees};

    \node[yshift=-1cm] at (previousDegrees) (subtitle) {\subtitleTemplate};

    \node[yshift=-1cm] at (subtitle) (degree) {\degree};

    \node[yshift=-1cm] at (degree) (gau) {in the Graduate Academic Unit of \gau};

    \node[right,yshift=-1cm] at (gau) (supervisors) {Supervisors:};

    \node[right, xshift=4cm, align=left] at (supervisors) {\supervisorMain};
    \node[right, xshift=4cm, yshift=-1cm,align=left] at (supervisors) {\supervisor};

    \node[right,yshift=-2cm] at (supervisors) (examBoard) {Examining Board:};
    \node[right,xshift=4cm] at (examBoard) {\board};

    \node[right,yshift=-2cm] at (examBoard) (externalExaminer) {External Examiner:};
    \node[right,xshift=4cm] at (examBoard) {\examiner};

    \node[yshift=-3cm] at (externalExaminer) (acceptedBy) {This thesis is accepted by the};
    \node[yshift=-1cm] at (acceptedBy) (dean) {Dean of Graduate Studies};

    \node[yshift=-2cm] at (dean) (unb) {\unb};

    \node[yshift=-2cm] at (unb) (submissionDate) {\submissionDate};

    \copyright\node[yshift=-2cm] at (submissionDate) (authorYear) {\@author, \gradYear};
  \end{tikzpicture}

\end{titlepage}
\makeatother

Best Answer

You can start with something as simple as this (pay attention to the actual requirements of your institution):

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{newtxtext}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
\centering
\setlength{\parindent}{0in}

{\fontsize{16}{19}\selectfont%
MINING PARTIALLY ORDERED SEQUENTIAL RULES\\ ON UNBOUNDED DATA\par
}

\vskip2\baselineskip
by

\vskip2\baselineskip
Andriy Drozdyuk\par
Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2001

\vskip2\baselineskip
A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of\\ the Requirements for the Degree of

\vskip2\baselineskip
Masters of Computer Science

\vskip2\baselineskip
in the Graduate Academic Unit of Computer Science

\vfill
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Supervisors: & Michael W. Fleming, Ph.D., Professor, Faculty of Computer Science\\
             & Scott Buffett, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Computer Science\\
             &                                    \\
Examining Board: & Name, Degree, Department, Chair\\
             &                                    \\
External Examiner: & Department/Field, Institution PhD Only             
\end{tabular}


\vfill
This thesis is accepted by the\\
Dean of Graduate Studies

\vskip2\baselineskip
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK\par
January, 2017

\vskip2\baselineskip
\copyright\ Andriy Drozdyuk, 2017

\end{titlepage}

\end{document}

You get this:

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[Tex/LaTex] UNAM thesis title page (portada tesis UNAM)

It took me time to write good code to generate a title page for a UNAM thesis and I think this could be very useful for somebody that is writing his/her thesis work in latex

The key to resolve the problem was to use the minipage environment. To use it correctly I found very useful Wikipedia's documentation : Latex/Boxes . The trick was to use this environment to make a grid for title page to correctly put each element of the title page for the thesis

The code I wrote was the following

\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}

\begin{minipage}[c][0.1\textheight][c]{0.2\textwidth}
\begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=2cm, height=2cm]{escudo}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[c][0.1\textheight][t]{0.65\textwidth}
\begin{center}
    {\scshape Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico}
    \vspace{.3cm}
    \hrule height2.5pt
    \vspace{.1cm}
    \hrule height1pt
    \vspace{.3cm}
    {\scshape  Facultad de Ciencias}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}

\begin{minipage}[c][0.6\textheight][t]{0.2\textwidth}
\begin{center}
\hskip2pt
\vrule width2.5pt height10cm
        \hskip1mm
        \vrule width1pt height10cm \\
        \includegraphics[height=3cm]{escudoFC}
        \end{center}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[c][0.6\textheight][t]{0.65\textwidth}
  \begin{center}
    {\Large \scshape {T\'itulo de la tesis}}

    \vspace{2cm}

    \makebox[5cm][c]{\LARGE TESIS}  \\[8pt]
    QUE PARA OBTENER EL T\'iTULO DE:\\[5pt]
    {\large \textbf{{t\'itulo}}}\\[40pt]            
    PRESENTA:\\[5pt]
    \textbf{{Nombre del tesista}}

    \vspace{1cm}

    {\small DIRECTOR DEL TRABAJO:\\ {Nombre del director del trabajo}}

    \vspace{0.5cm}

    {Lugar,}{ }{Fecha}
  \end{center}
\end{minipage}

\end{document}

This code produce the following output

UNAM thesis title page

To view the use of minipage environment to design the title page you can use the following code

\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}
% port
\fbox{
\begin{minipage}[c][0.1\textheight][c]{0.2\textwidth}
    \begin{center}
        \includegraphics[width=2cm, height=2cm]{escudo}
    \end{center}
\end{minipage}
}
\fbox{
\begin{minipage}[c][0.1\textheight][t]{0.65\textwidth}
    \begin{center}
        {\scshape Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico}
        \vspace{.3cm}
        \hrule height2.5pt
        \vspace{.1cm}
        \hrule height1pt
        \vspace{.3cm}
        {\scshape  Facultad de Ciencias}
    \end{center}
\end{minipage}
}

\fbox{
\begin{minipage}[c][0.6\textheight][t]{0.2\textwidth}
    \begin{center}
    \hskip2pt
    \vrule width2.5pt height10cm
        \hskip1mm
        \vrule width1pt height10cm \\
        \includegraphics[height=3cm]{escudoFC}
        \end{center}
\end{minipage}
}
\fbox{
\begin{minipage}[c][0.6\textheight][t]{0.65\textwidth}
      \begin{center}
        {\Large \scshape {T\'itulo de la tesis}}

        \vspace{2cm}

        \makebox[5cm][c]{\LARGE TESIS}  \\[8pt]
        QUE PARA OBTENER EL T\'ITULO DE:\\[5pt]
        {\large \textbf{{t\'itulo}}}\\[40pt]            
        PRESENTA:\\[5pt]
        \textbf{{Nombre del tesista}}

        \vspace{1cm}

        {\small DIRECTOR DEL TRABAJO:\\ {Nombre del director del trabajo}}

        \vspace{0.5cm}

        {Lugar,}{ }{Fecha}
      \end{center}
\end{minipage}
}

\end{document}

To produce the followint output

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I hope this will be useful for somebody that writes his thesis work in latex

[Tex/LaTex] Thesis title pages

You can make a simple title page by the following code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,a4wide}

\begin{document}



\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{center}
Pretty Girls Secrets \\
\vspace{0.5\baselineskip}
by \\
\vspace{0.5\baselineskip}
Pretty Girl Flirty \\
\vspace{3.5cm}
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of \\
\vspace{0.5\baselineskip}
Doctor of Philosophy  \\ 
\vspace{0.5\baselineskip}
in \\ 
\vspace{0.5\baselineskip}
Flirt Science \\
\vspace{2cm}
Examined and approved on\\
\vspace{3mm}
\rule{.2\textwidth}{.5pt}\\
\vspace{3mm}
by the following examiner:\\
\vspace{5mm}
\rule{.5\textwidth}{.5pt}\\
Dr Xxxxx Xxxx (supervisor)\\




\vspace{2cm}
Department of Flirty Girls and Boys Science \\
\vspace{0.5\baselineskip}
Flirt University \\
\vspace{6cm}
\: \textcopyright  Pretty Girl Flirty, 2015
\end{center}


\end{document}

Hope this helps.

Here is my title page.

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