[diarrhea]

No, in my industry (mechanical engineering) Master (and also Bachelor) theses were always much, much longer. Longer lines, less vertical line spacing, many more pages. Lots of faffing about ('Introduction', 'State of the Art', 'Theoretical foundation', ...). Faculties urge supervisors and students to keep it below 100 pages (of relatively dense type).

[jacobmischka]

Agreed on the formatting of mine being ridiculous with huge margins and line spacing, it wasn't my choice.