Ayuda para diseñar una página de título para tesis.

Question

Tengo problemas para que mi página de título se vea bien. Pocas preguntas:

1. ¿Cómo puedo seguir el texto de manera que no se mueva?
2. No quiero utilizar coordenadas absolutas (es decir, antes tenía yshift=-15cm, pero se volvió muy complicado diseñar toda la página a la vez).
3. ¿Es el enfoque que estoy adoptando el mejor? Quizás haya una manera mejor.

Así es como necesito que se vea (sin las dos líneas superiores, por supuesto):

pero esto es lo que obtuve:

Mi código es el siguiente:

% 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

Answer 1

Puedes empezar con algo tan simple como esto (presta atención a los requisitos reales de tu institución):

\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}

Obtienes esto: