The phrase "dissertation for" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate the purpose or subject of the dissertation. Example: "I am currently researching various topics for my dissertation on global climate change."
But in 1972 his dissertation for a PhD in computer science was rejected.
Maybe I'll stop having those dreams where my adviser keeps sending back my dissertation for corrections.
She completed her first novel, Jubilee (1966), as her doctoral dissertation for the University of Iowa (Ph.D., 1965).
I'm writing the dissertation for my Masters (on Foucault) while working a full-time job and it's driving me mad.
He has dismissed the charges and said Monday that he had requested that the University of Giessen check his dissertation for unacknowledged citations.
The next year he began teaching physics at Moscow State University and was appointed a professor there in 1900, after defending a dissertation for the Russian advanced doctorate.
She introduced her findings in the sprawling four-volume dissertation for her Ph.D., which she earned from Columbia University in 1981.
After leaving office as Provincial, Bergoglio was rector of a Jesuit seminary for a time, then worked on a dissertation for a degree in theology.
His doctoral dissertation for the University of Copenhagen, Archaeology of the Central Eskimos (1927), laid the groundwork for further study of Eskimo archaeology.
He spent seven years at Georgetown and received a master's in economic theory, but never finished his dissertation for a Ph.D.
The new director has a master's degree in art history from Northwestern University and has completed all but his dissertation for a doctorate there.
