502 Subfield $a - Dissertation note:

Subfield $a contains the entire text of the note.

Examples:

502 ##$aThesis (M.A.)--University College, London, 1969.

502 ##$aInaug.--Diss.--Heidelberg, 1972.

502 ##$aKarl Schmidt's thesis (doctoral)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 1965.

502 ##$aMémoire de stage (3e cycle)--Université de Nantes, 1981.

500 ##$aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Sorbonne, Paris, 1969.

[Not the original thesis; information recorded in field 500 instead of field 502]