Examination Office

Notes for final projects

What has to be considered when registering and submitting a Master thesis?

The topic for the master's thesis has to be from the area of economic science. You have 6 months to finish it. Please note that you have to be enrolled while working on it.

In order to be admitted for the registration of the master thesis, you must have completed at least 60 CP of the exams or academic achievements required for the successful completion of your studies. You can either check yourself if you have the required amount on the  https://vorlesungen.tu-bs.de website, or inquire directly at the Examination Office. If you submit a registration without having the required amount of credit points, it will not be accepted. Furthermore, you can NOT register a master's thesis with the same name again.

The first thing that is requried from you, is that you find yourself a supervisor for the thesis & agree on a topic with them. Please note: Even if you plan on writing your thesis externally, you still have to  get a supervisor from the TU first. To register you have to use the form
  „Anmeldung einer Abschlussarbeit im Studiengang Technologie-orientiertes Management“ which you can either get directly from the Examination Office, or downloadhere. The filled out and signed form (including signed by your supervisor) will be sent to the Examination Office from the Institute, and with that your thesis is registered. Your time to start on the thesis starts on the date specified on the form, and then runs for exactly six months. Logically, your submission deadline is exactly six months after the start of the working period. (For example: Registration date: 18.11.2009 -> Submission date: 18.05.2010).

As of now, final theses (bachelor's or master's thesis) are uploaded in TUConnect. Submission by e-mail or on data carriers is no longer required. The date of submission is the upload date of the submission to the examination office.

Bound copies no longer have to be submitted to the Examinations Office. Examiners can request the submission of a printed copy within 5 days of the upload date. In that case, the submission will take place at the examiners' office.

There is an automatic plagiarism check.

You can only upload one PDF document (the declaration of originality must be included). To do this, convert your work as a PDF document directly from your word document or use the print function. Please do not scan!

For data protection reasons, you may remove the personal data "last name", "first name" and "matriculation number" from the electronic version of your thesis before uploading it.

The maximum file size is 150 MB. If necessary, please reduce the resolution of images/drawings in the file.

If the final thesis is your last exam and you would like to exmatriculate as soon as possible, you should in any case be sure that you have passed all exams and study achievements including the final thesis. If your final thesis has not yet been graded, but the performance is in any case assessed as passed, first and second examiners can issue you a "4.0 certificate", which confirms that your final thesis has been passed with at least "sufficient". We strongly advise against de-registration before it is certain that all examination and study achievements have been passed!

Notification of sickness during the work on the thesis

You can find important information on sick leave during the processing of the thesishere (PDF)