Because the thesis office doesn’t understand anything about punctuation, it requires the colon that would appear
in a caption to also appear in the contents lists. Since they don’t care about the colon itself, but just consistency
I’ve removed colons from the captions entirely, since leaving it in makes the contents lists look really stupid.
But in case you or your advisor want the colon in captions, you can add the colon back in by
adding \renewcommand{\msucaptiondelim}{:} to your preamble, and the class will make sure the
Lists of Tables and Figures match in formatting. If you have other floating objects with captions
(e.g., algorithms, listings) you may need to change their delimiter too (see below). How you do
this may depend on the particular packages you are using.