To register your thesis for assessment, please use the form.
Cover page templates are available in German and English.
When registering your thesis, please remember to send the course certificate verifying that you have completed the Master's Seminar module or state that you are still attending the Master's Seminar module. In either case, please include your thesis supervisor in the cc field of your email.
Approved thesis examiners or thesis project supervisors are persons who meet the criteria set out in Sec. 8 of the Joint Examination Regulations. The subject-specific examination regulations and/or study regulations governing the individual computer science study programmes may have provisions that extend or restrict the group of approved persons. In case of doubt, please get in touch with the relevant contact in the Examinations Office in good time. Please note:
One of the two thesis examiners shall be the person who set the thesis topic (typically the supervisor). As stated in Section 8(7) of the Joint Examination Regulations, at least one of the thesis examiners shall be a professor or an individual drawn from the groups listed in Section 8(1), items 1 to 7 of the Joint Examination Regulations.
Single-subject degree programme in Computer Science: The person who sets the thesis topic and/or supervises the thesis project (and is thus the primary thesis examiner) shall be drawn from the groups of potential advisors listed in the following link. Where possible, the secondary thesis examiner should be from a different research group. https://www.graduateschool-computerscience.de/advisors/
All computer science degree programmes including 'Mathematics and Computer Science': The subject-specific examination regulations and/or study regulations governing the individual computer science study programmes may have provisions that extend or restrict the group of approved persons. In case of doubt, please get in touch with the relevant contact in the Examinations Office in good time.
If the secondary thesis examiner holds a doctorate and works as a member of the non-professorial academic staff in a relevant university department, at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), in one of the Max Planck Institutes or at the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) and is not on our list of potential thesis advisors, please get in touch with the relevant contact at the Examinations Office.
The student may submit a proposal for the secondary thesis examiner; any such proposal must be submitted no later than the thesis submission date.
In case of illness (Section 22(3) of the Joint Examination Regulations):
If a candidate is prevented from working on the Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis for a period of more than one week because of illness or some other cause beyond the candidate’s control, the thesis submission deadline shall be extended accordingly. The candidate shall provide supporting documentation to the Examinations Office without unreasonable delay, e.g. in the event of illness, the candidate shall submit a medical certificate issued by a physician. [...]
Where reasonable grounds exist, a candidate can apply to the Examination Board and request an extension to the thesis submission date in accordance with Section 22 of the Joint Examination Regulations. Applications for an extension must be submitted no later than five days before the date of submission.
(2) In exceptional cases and where reasonable grounds exist, a candidate may apply to the Examination Board for an extension to the thesis completion period. In the case of a Bachelor’s thesis, an extension will typically not exceed three weeks. For a Master’s thesis, an extension will typically not exceed six weeks. Any extension granted shall not alter the number of credits awarded.