Thesis

The latest registration date for the final thesis and the processing time are regulated in the General Examination Regulations (APO) or the special examination regulations of the degree programs attended. The application for admission to the final thesis must be submitted in writing to the respective examination board via the SSC Student Management one week before the "start date".

After you have discussed the topic of your thesis with your supervisor, please complete the Thesis registration form completely and legibly and hand it in to the SSC Student Management with your signature and the signature of the first assessor. After approval/signature of the application by the Chairperson of the Examination Board, the registration of the thesis will be entered into the system by the Student Service Center and the submission date (examination date) will then also be displayed in your university portal.

The thesis must be bound and also submitted in digital form:

1. we recommend using this cover sheet template for the thesis.

2. your assurance that you have written the thesis independently and that no sources and aids other than those specified have been used must be included in each copy and signed by you. The departments recommend using the following wording for the declaration of independence:

"I, [first name last name], hereby declare that I have written this [Bachelor's / Master's thesis] independently. I have not made use of any unauthorized assistance, in particular no support based on artificial intelligence (AI). I have agreed any deviating admissibility of support based on AI with the first reviewer. I have only used the sources and aids indicated.

I have identified all passages that were taken from other works or sources in terms of wording or meaning by citing the source. This also applies to pictorial representations or products based on artificial intelligence.

This work has not yet been submitted in the same or a similar form to any examination authority. Furthermore, I confirm that the paper version I have submitted is identical to the electronic version.

I am aware that any violation of the principles of good scientific practice will be penalized. I acknowledge that this thesis can be checked for plagiarism or undisclosed aids using software and saved for examination purposes."

The electronic version of the thesis must also bear your signature.

3. if the thesis may not be read by third parties, please enter a "blocking note" on one of the first pages.

4. please submit the thesis firmly bound (no ring or spiral binding) by the deadline. The required number of bound copies can be found in the Special Examination Regulations or the General Examination Regulations applicable to your degree programs.

You can either hand in the thesis in person at the university or send it by post by the deadline. If you send it by post (parcel or registered mail), please send the proof of posting to the responsible clerk (SSC student management clerk) as a scan by e-mail. The date of posting at the post office is the date of receipt at the university.

To submit your thesis in person, please make an appointment with your student administration office. Under no circumstances may the thesis be posted in the university's letterbox!

5. on the day of submission of the bound versions, you must also send your thesis by e-mail as a PDF file to your administrative office in SSC Student Management. This PDF file is the electronic version required by the General Examination Regulations.

ATTENTION: The submission date of the bound thesis is the deadline!

In principle, the extension of the processing time for the thesis can be approved by the Examination Board in justified exceptional cases. For this purpose, the form "Antrag auf Verlängerung der Bearbeitungszeit der Abschlussarbeit" (including the attachments proving the reason) must be completed and submitted to the SSC Student Management with the supervisor's signature. The form is only available at the SSC Student Management!

If you have to extend the processing time of the written thesis due to illness, the completed and signed application for extension of the processing time of the thesis must also be accompanied by the completed form Medical certificate to justify the inability to take the examination to the SSC Student Management.

Please refer to the examination regulations applicable to you for the maximum extension of the processing time.

The new submission deadline will be communicated in an official letter from the chair of the examination board.

As soon as the SSC Student Management has received the corrected thesis (and the result of the colloquium, if applicable), you will receive a corresponding notification, which will also contain the grade for the thesis.

As a rule, the final thesis is the last examination. Please note that you must remain enrolled until the last examination has been completed.

If the deadline for submitting the thesis, the day of the colloquium or the day of the last examination is not until the following semester (end of semester SS: 31.8., end of semester WS: 28./29.2.), you must re-register for the new semester, i.e. the semester fee (and any fees) must be transferred again!

Ex officio de-registration takes place at the end of the semester in which the last examination was taken.