You can find the latest Bachelor's and Master's theses on offer either online on our overview of the respective specialist groups or as a notice in their offices.

Registration of a thesis

Step 1: The student applies in PAUL to write the thesis and specifies the first and second supervisor.

Step 2: The Central Examination Office checks whether the admission requirements have been met and, if so, activates the registration form. Students should keep an eye on their PAUL account to see when the forms have been activated.

Step 3: The student fills out the registration form as far as possible and signs it.

Step 4: He or she sends the form together with the proposal and the work plan by e-mail to the first assessor or hands it in personally.

Step 5: The first assessor signs the form and confirms that he or she has received the proposal and the work plan.

Step 6: The first assessor sends the signed form to the Central Examination Office. It is a good idea to keep a copy in the first assessor's office in case anything goes wrong. If there are any changes to the forms sent by the student (start of term, second assessor, etc.), these should be explicitly stated in the message to the Central Examination Office. If the first reviewer is unable to sign the form for any reason, he or she should write the required information in an email to the Central Examination Office and confirm that the proposal and work plan are available.

Step 7: The first assessor informs the second assessor (the easiest way is to send a copy of the email to the Central Examination Office) and sends him/her the proposal and the work plan by email.

Step 8: The Central Examination Office informs the student by letter and entry in PAUL about the successful registration and the submission deadline.

Submission options for final theses

In principle, theses can always be submitted in person or electronically around the clock, at the latest by midnight on the last day of submission.

Instead of submitting the printed and bound copies, it is possible to submit an electronic version via a university e-mail account to the relevant ZPS processing department and the assessors (in an e-mail). Here you will find further information on the requirements and instructions on the risks, which you must also have taken note of as part of the application for admission to the thesis/study work.

Submission by post. The postmark is decisive for the submission date.

It is also possible to hand in your thesis at the Central Examination Office, but only during office hours. Please do not put your thesis in the letterboxes outside the offices of the Central Examination Office, but use the Service Centre or the gate (in an envelope addressed to the Central Examination Office) outside office hours.

Of course, the other information and regulations in the respective application for admission and letter of admission to the final thesis and the corresponding examination regulations also apply. Only the ZPS confirms the timely receipt of theses by entering the submission date in PAUL under "My examinations".

A valid enrolment status in the relevant degree programme ("enrolled" or "on leave of absence with authorisation to take examinations") must be available when submitting the thesis and, if applicable, when completing further final examinations!

Submission modalities for theses in the Computer Science degree programme

Submission modalities for regular submission
If the result is code or a programme or similar, this should not be sent in the email, but separately to the examiners (after consultation with them).
The information below only applies if the submission is made in the normal form in accordance with the examination regulations, i.e. not in the case of electronic submission by university e-mail in accordance with the regulations...

Bachelor's thesis

The Bachelor's thesis is an integral part of the Bachelor's degree programme in Computer Science. It is usually written in the 6th semester before the Bachelor's degree is awarded. Students should use it to demonstrate that they are able to work on a computer science topic using scientific methods and then present it.

It usually takes 9 weeks (full-time) to complete a Bachelor's thesis. However, this processing time is preceded by the preparation of a work plan by the student, for which 3 ECTS credits are awarded. This corresponds to a further 3 weeks of full-time work, so that the total time required for a Bachelor's thesis is 12 weeks of full-time work.

Master's thesis

In the Master's thesis, the candidate demonstrates his/her ability to work independently on an appropriately challenging topic, which also provides the opportunity to develop his/her own ideas. Computer science methods should be systematically applied on the basis of state-of-the-art methods. The results of the thesis are presented in a faculty lecture.

It usually takes 5 months (full-time) to complete a Master's thesis. However, this processing time is preceded by the creation of a work plan by the student, for which 5 ECTS credits are awarded. This corresponds to approximately a further month of full-time work, so that the total time required for a Master's thesis is 6 months.

Template for theses

The winning template in a competition for the best LaTeX template, organised by the Computer Networks specialist group, can be found here.

Links

Thesis submission options

Official announcements

Regulations governing online examinations and the electronic submission of theses