Your thesis and accompanying seminar
Have you already completed most of your degree programme? Congratulations! On this page you will find all the information you need about your Bachelor's or Master's thesis.
1. Schedule
Bachelor's and Master's thesis projects can be started at any time.
The only prerequisite for the Bachelor's thesis project is that you have successfully completed the Projektgruppe. The prerequisite for the Master's thesis project (according to the examination regulations of 2023) is that you have acquired at least 60 ETCS in your Master's programme.
The maximum time you can work on your thesis is:
- five months in the Bachelor's programmes;
- six months in the full-time Master's programmes;
- nine months in the part-time Master's programmes.
This means that the thesis project must be registered five (Bachelor's) or six or nine (Master's) months before the end of the nominal duration of your programme in order to be able to graduate within the nominal duration.
Upon reasoned request to the examination board, using this form, the time you can work on the thesis can be extended by a maximum of six weeks.
2. Topic and Supervision
To obtain a topic for your thesis, please contact a lecturer whose course(s) you took, especially Projektgruppen, seminars or labs. If you have contacted several lecturers without success, please contact the examinations office.
In principle, it is also possible to write your thesis outside the Institute of Computer Science, for example in a company or at another research institute. You can also suggest a topic for your thesis yourself. However, you always need at least one examiner within the institute who is willing to (co-)supervise and grade your thesis. Contact potential examiners in good time.
If the other examiner is not a lecturer at the Institute of Computer Science, (s)he must still fulfil the requirements according to our examination regulations. The external examiner should therefore contact the chairperson of the examination board. The chairperson will then decide, after reviewing the potential examiner's qualifications and possibly an interview, whether an appointment as examiner is possible.
3. Registration
Once you have been assigned a topic, the thesis must be registered immediately. All eligible examiners at the institute have a form for this purpose. The examiners and the student (you) must sign this form. Then you submit the form to the examinations office.
The chair of the examination board then checks whether the topic and the examiners fulfil the requirements of the examination regulations. The chair confirms both the examiners and the topic by signing the form. Only then is the submission deadline entered in BASIS and the student (you) will find the submission deadline as the examination date under the examinations for which you are registered.
4. Application for further studies
If you would like to enrol in one of our Master's degree programmes following your Bachelor's thesis, you must apply before submitting your Bachelor's thesis. Please note the application deadlines!
5. Submission
At least 10 days before your submission deadline, please send an e-mail to pa+abgabe@informatik.uni-bonn.de stating your surname, first name, matriculation number, the title of the thesis, the names of the examiners, the deadline and, if you plan to submit your thesis before the deadline, the planned submission date.
Achtung: Only mails that are sent from your university mail address (...@uni-bonn.de) will be processed.
With the reply email you will receive a link to a Sciebo folder to which you must upload your work as a PDF file by the deadline. Additional files, if any, must be uploaded in a ZIP archive.
In addition, successful submission includes the submission of the declaration of authorship, with which you assure that you wrote the submitted work by yourself. You must make sure that the examinations office receives the declaration with your original signature (on paper, not a scan) within seven days after you uploaded your thesis.
As soon as the submission deadline has passed or the declaration of authorship has been received, the submission link will be deleted. Only then will your work be sent to the examiners for assessment.
If the files are not uploaded on time or if the examination office does not receive the declaration of authorship on time, the thesis project is deemed to have been failed.
6. Presentation
Finally, you must give a presentation on your Bachelor's thesis in the accompanying seminar. You do not need to register for the seminar. You simply need to arrange a date and a time with your examiners. The presentation should take place shortly before or shortly after the submission of the thesis, in the same semester.