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Guidelines on Bachelor Theses

Students in the Bachelor’s Program in Business, Economics and Social Sciences and the Bachelor’s Program in Business Law are required to write a bachelor’s thesis worth 8 ECTS credits (WISO19/WIRE16) or 10 ECTS credits (WISO23/WIRE23).

The estimated work load for the thesis corresponds to approximately 200 working hours/25 full-time working days (WISO19/WIRE16) or 250 working hours/31 full-time working days (WISO23/WIRE23). This includes not only writing the thesis, but also all preparatory work and any subsequent tasks.

What is a bachelor's thesis?

Language of the bachelor's thesis

Topics & evaluation criteria

Prerequisites for grading and supervising bachelor’s theses

Transparency of assessment and care obligations

Start of supervision

Submission, plagiarism check & asessment

Embargoes on bachelor’s theses

Rates for evaluating a bachelor’s thesis

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FAQs

How does the submission of thesis work?

Student must submit their theses themselves using Thesis Management in myWU. As soon as a student has uploaded a thesis, the supervisor will receive an e-mail confirmation.

Does the thesis have to contain an affidavit?

The thesis no longer has to contain an affidavit because the affidavit must be confirmed directly in Thesis Management in myWU upon submission by the students.

Is it possible to change the title of the thesis afterwards?

The working title of the thesis is transferred once from the supervision database to myWU. Subsequent updates of the thesis title in the supervision database are not synchronized, as the final title is entered in myWU anyway when the student submits the thesis. As soon as you as supervisor have confirmed the plagiarism check, the final title will be mirrored back into the supervision database.

Which appendices and indexes should be included in the thesis?

Appendices and indexes should be included in the thesis as far as possible, i.e. submitted with the thesis PDF. An exception is the list of aids used, which should not be submitted with the thesis PDF, but as a separate file under “list of aids used”. The appendices should only include files that do not fit into the paper itself, such as videos or R files.