On this page, you'll find all the important information about your thesis. This includes details on the assignment process, as well as organizational procedures and deadlines. This information is intended to help you plan and complete your thesis.
Go to content:
You can find the guidelines for your thesis at the Examinations Office. There you’ll find information on registering and submitting your thesis, the time required to complete it, the language of the thesis, and other (formal) requirements. Be sure to read through this information first.
In the bachelor’s programs and in the KMA master’s program, thesis topics are assigned through a centralized assignment process. This process takes place once per semester. As part of the process, you indicate your preferences regarding who you would like to write your thesis with. The assignment process takes place via a preference survey in ILIAS. The start of the preference survey is announced via the degree programs’ mailing list and published in “Kurz gemeldet.”
In the degree programs, bachelor's theses are assigned via an ILIAS survey. Here, you indicate your preferences and your planned official registration date. You can find the survey in ILIAS.
In both communication studies programs, thesis topics are assigned via an ILIAS survey. You’ll indicate your preferences, your planned official registration date, and your topic area. You can find the survey and additional information in ILIAS.
Please read the following information carefully before indicating your preferences.
To participate in the assignment process, you must select exactly five departments and rank them in order of preference. The following rules apply:
Please note that failure to comply with these rules will affect your participation in the regular assignment process.
After the application period ends, the first preferences of all students are first forwarded to the respective departments. The departments are then given the opportunity to select a certain number of students from among the applicants who listed them as their first preference, within the limits of their available capacity.
The remaining spots are then allocated through a centralized placement process, taking into account the stated preferences and available capacity.
Students whose preference selections violate the guidelines mentioned above will be asked via email after the registration period ends to correct their information.
Please note, however, that these students will not be able to participate in the first-choice selection round, as it takes place at the same time. This can significantly reduce the likelihood of being assigned to your preferred department.
Depending on your preferences, it is possible that you cannot be directly assigned to any of the selected departments because their capacities are full. In this case, you will be contacted and provided with a list of the departments that still have available supervision capacity.
In the following master’s programs, thesis assignments are handled directly by the respective departments: Economics with Data Science, IBE, Management, WI, and Wipäd. Contact the department where you would like to write your thesis well in advance.
Please note the following:
We are committed to fairness - toward you and in how students interact with one another. This includes evaluating individual performance as fairly as possible. Only your own performance is evaluated, not that of others.
For this reason, the faculty uses the plagiarism detection software Turnitin.
All seminar papers and theses must therefore be submitted digitally in addition to the printed version. The digital version must be word-for-word identical to the printed version. The same submission deadlines apply to both versions. For legal purposes, we also ask that you submit a declaration to the lecturers in our faculty for all seminar papers and theses.
Every seminar paper and thesis is routinely checked against the digital version using plagiarism detection software. If verifiable plagiarism, as defined below, is detected, the paper is considered a failure and is graded a 5.0. In this case, no certificate of achievement will be issued.
Plagiarism is defined as the act of copying text from third parties - in whole or in part, verbatim or nearly verbatim - within the context of seminar papers or theses and presenting it as one’s own academic work. In this sense, plagiarism also occurs if the copied material has been translated into a language other than the original. Correctly cited verbatim or paraphrased passages with a reference to the source are not considered plagiarism.
The principles of good academic practice are an integral part of teaching and are enshrined in the University of Hohenheim’s Statutes on Academic Integrity:
Ombudspeople handle internal complaints regarding research misconduct. This can fall into the following categories:
I. Misrepresentation
II. Infringement of intellectual property
III. Intentional or grossly negligent harm to the research activities of others
IV. Shared responsibility for the research misconduct of others
In addition, they review complaints of research misconduct filed by colleagues and supervisors to determine their validity. If there is reasonable suspicion of research misconduct, they request that the university administration establish a commission to investigate the alleged misconduct.
In cases of research misconduct, please contact the ombudsperson:
If two students indicate identical preferences but are nevertheless assigned to different professors, this is due to limited supervision capacity. Each professor can supervise only a limited number of theses. Once this capacity is exhausted, the selection among students with identical preference structures is made at random.
This effect, which may seem surprising at first glance, also stems from the limited capacity of the faculty members. A professor typically supervises no more than 15 students at a time.
If an examiner receives a very large number of first preferences, not all students can be assigned to that examiner. The unassigned students are therefore assigned to another examiner whom they listed as a lower preference.
From the perspective of all students as a whole, this procedure is more favorable. If only first preferences were taken into account (up to the capacity limit), significantly more students would be assigned to an examiner with a very low preference or even no preference listed.
If you do not begin your thesis in the assigned semester, you must re-register for the assignment process in the following semester.
At the moment, this will not put you at a disadvantage. However, if there is a very high number of applications for thesis topics next semester, first-time applicants may be given priority based on their respective preferences.
Contact person for Economics Programs
Michael Feketitsch | michael_feketitsch(at)uni-hohenheim.de
Contact person for communication studies programs
Agatha Maisch | agatha.maisch(at)uni-hohenheim.de
