Final Thesis

Below you will find more information about the final thesis.

Bachelor's thesis | Master's thesis | Plagiarism Assessment | Ombudspersons | Information & Downloads

Bachelor's thesis

The assignment of a Bachelor's thesis is done using a central allocation system. You can register using the KVS and enter your preferences. The registration period begins around 2 weeks before the last registration deadline.

Last registration date for Bachelor's thesis

in the winter semester: 15 February
in the summer semester: 15 July

You will usually receive a message about your allocation 1-2 weeks after the deadline has expired. After the allocation has been made, a consultation will take place with your supervisor. Then register your thesis at the examination office.

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Master's thesis

The assignment of a Master's thesis is done directly by the departments.

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Plagiarism Assessment

We are for fairness - both towards you and with regard to the way students treat each other. This includes evaluating your individual performance as fairly as possible. Just: your individual achievements – not those of others.

For this reason, the plagiarism detection software Turnitin was introduced.

In order to use this, all seminar papers and theses must be submitted in digital form in addition to the usual printed version. Please make sure that the wording of the digital version matches the printed version. Without exception, the same submission deadlines apply to the digital version of the work as to the printed versions. For legal security, we also ask you to submit a declaration to the lecturers of our faculty for all seminar papers and theses.

Each seminar paper and thesis is then routinely checked against the submitted digital version using plagiarism detection software. If it is determined that a submitted work is demonstrably a plagiarism in the sense defined below, this work is considered "failed" and is rated with a 5.0. No proof of performance will be issued for the corresponding course.

Plagiarism is the circumstance that texts of third parties are copied in whole or in part, literally or almost word for word, in the context of seminar papers or theses and passed off as your own academic achievement. In this sense, there is also plagiarism if the copy is translated into a language other than that of the original. Analogous assumptions and literal assumptions set in quotation marks, which are marked as such with the indication of the source, do not, of course, fall under this definition.

Guidelines for Good Scientific Practices should be part of research and teaching. This is also regulated in the Statute on Ensuring Scientific Integrity of the University of Hohenheim.

Supervisors of academic papers and dissertations should first acquaint students to the standards for Good Scientific Practices and caution them against scientific misconduct.

Supervisors of academic papers as well as dissertations and habilitations have to make an assurance when submitting the paper. They have to assure that they observed the Guidelines for Good Scientific Practices, that they indite the paper independently and that they have not used any other references or means than those which are stated. Besides, they have to agree with the application of a anti-plagiarism software.

You find the declaration which has to be enclosed on the homepage of the Examinations Office.

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Ombudspersons

Ombudspersons hear internal complaints about scientific misconduct. This can be expressed in the following categories:

I. False Information

Data manipulation, data suppression, and making up data

II. Violation of Intellectual Property Rights

The exploitation of research approaches and ideas of others (theft of ideas)
The claim or unfounded presumption of scientific authorship or co-authorship
Suppression of research associates’ contributions in publications, etc.

III. Intentional or Grossly Negligent Damage to Other’s Research Activity

Original data or files that another gathered during research are deleted or manipulated without that person’s knowledge
Erroneously accusing another person of scientific misconduct

IV. Shared Responsibility for Others’ Scientific Misconduct

Intentional participation in another’s misconduct
Co-authorship of publications with falsifications
Gross negligence in supervision duties

In addition, they review complaints of scientific misconduct by colleagues and supervisors and determine whether they are justified. If a reasoned suspicion of scientific misconduct is found, they request from the University Management a commission to investigate scientific misconduct.

Please contact the ombudsperson to report scientific misconduct: