The Master program is completed when all required coursework from the study plan has been successfully completed (with certification), when all requirements for the completion of the Master's degree have been met and when the master thesis has been submitted and been issued a satisfactory grade. Completion of the degree also requires an overall Master grade of 4 or higher.
The overall Master grade is the weighted average of all grades (only satisfactory grades are taken into consideration). The ECTS credits are used for the weighting.
Registration
The master thesis currently does not have to be registered in the CTS.
Submission of the master thesis
A bound copy of the thesis must be submitted to the student's advisor. The day this copy is submitted is documented as the submission date for the grade notification. A digital version of the thesis must also be submitted to the thesis advisor for the purposes of excluding the possibility of plagiarism.
Two other copies of the master thesis must be submitted to Judith Johnny at the institute. Of of these copies (for the institute archive) must be adhesive bound. The second copy (for the Social Science Library) should be submitted unbound, as the library will bind it and make it available for borrowing.
In order to enable the document to be borrowed, the author of the thesis must fill out and sign the permission form allowing the university library to lend out the work and then insert the form in front of the title page of the thesis (see Forms). If permission to lend out the work is not granted, the thesis will only be stored in the institute archive. In this case, only a bound copy must be submitted.
Each copy of the master thesis must also include a signed non-plagiarism declaration at the end of the work (see Forms).
