Requests and applications must be sent by email to pruefungsausschuss@cs.uni-saarland.de from your Saarland University email account and must include your student registration number.
If you wish to submit an application as per the provisions of the Coronavirus Ordinance, you must do so within two weeks of publication of the examination results by sending an email to corona@ps-mint.uni-saarland.de stating your reasons for applying.
If you plan to join the Master's degree programme in Computer Science after graduating from the Bachelor's programme in Computer Science, you may transfer up to 30 ECTS credits earned during the Bachelor's programme, provided that these had not previously been used to meet the total credit requirements of the B. Sc. programme (see Section 5(3) of the study regulations for the M. Sc. programme in Computer Science).
Any such transferable academic credit must not have been earned more than three years ago.
Academic credits from lecture courses and seminars that you attended during your Bachelor's degree programme must be formally associated with the Master's degree programme or must be at Master's level (introductory lectures in computer science from the Bachelor's curriculum will not be recognized).
The Examination Board will decide which study semester you will be in when you join the programme. As a rule, you will be placed in the subject semester one above the number of semesters you had completed in your previous programme of study, irrespective of the number of ECTS credits earned.
To receive academic credit from a previous programme of study, you must submit a request for recognition of prior academic learning. Applications for recognition of credits from prior academic learning (typically acquired in the last two years) must be submitted in your first semester in the relevant programme of study. If you wish to apply for recognition of academic credits earned while studying abroad, the application must be submitted in the semester immediately following completion of your study abroad period.
Please be aware that recognition of academic credit is not possible if the content of a module or course overlaps (either wholly or in part) with the content of previous assessments or examinations for which you have already earned academic credit.
Additional information is available here.
Applications for an extension to the thesis submission date must be sent by email no later than five (working) days before the submission deadline expires. The person who set the thesis topic must be included in the cc field of your email and must agree to the proposed extension.
If, on their first attempt, a candidate receives a fail grade for their Bachelor's or Master's thesis, the candidate must register a new thesis topic with the Examinations Office no later than four weeks after the fail grade was announced (see Section 23(6) of the Joint Examination Regulations for Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Programmes of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Saarland University). Normally, the person who set the first thesis topic will set the second topic and will continue to supervise the thesis project. In this case, the student does not need to attend a further Bachelor's or Master's seminar, unless this is explicitly requested by the supervisor. If a student requires clarification or a problem has arisen, the student must report the issue to the Examination Board before the four-week deadline.
The thesis supervisor (and primary thesis examiner) of a Bachelor's or Master's thesis must be drawn from the following group: https://www.graduateschool-computerscience.de/advisors/ (see Sections 8(1) and 8(7) of the Joint Examination Regulations of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science).
The secondary thesis examiner will usually also be drawn from this same group. On request, the secondary thesis examiner may also be a professor or member of staff (qualified to doctoral level) from another university or external research institute.
The names of both thesis examiners must be stated on the title page of the Bachelor's or Master's thesis. For further details regarding the information to be included on the thesis title page, please see the template provided by the Examinations Office (under 'Guidelines').
When submitting a publication as a Bachelor's or Master's thesis, the relevant referees' reports from the journal or conference must be bound into the thesis.
The electronic version of the Bachelor's or Master's thesis must be uploaded into the cloud storage system (https://oc.cs.uni-saarland.de/). CDs/DVDs/USB flash drives or similar formats are no longer accepted.
A candidate who wishes to inspect the examiners’ reports on their thesis should send an email request to Ms Schaum, Ms Pennekamp, the academic coordinator or the Examination Board. The candidate may inspect the reports in the Examinations Office on an agreed date.
A seminar will only be recognized as an introductory seminar, if it was specifically designated as a dual-status seminar (i.e. seminar/introductory seminar).