Application

The application for admission to the Master's thesis must be submitted in writing or electronically to the Examination Board. In the Documents and Forms section or here you will find the registration form to register your thesis(FPO 2020
or ÄO 2024). As a prerequisite for the application for admission, you must have earned at least 67 credit points .

Topic

The topic will be discussed with the first examiner by the registration deadline and submitted to the Examinations Office at the time of registration.

The topic will be reviewed by the examination board before the deadline. The examination board may make changes to the submitted topic. The second examiner is specified on the registration form. This examiner must agree to review the thesis. If no second examiner can be found, the examination board will appoint one.

The decision of the Examination Board regarding admission, examiners, deadlines and the proposed topic will be communicated to you in writing at the start of the processing period.

Registration deadlines for the Master's thesis

Processing time and scope

The processing time for the Master's thesis is 6 months. The length of the Master's thesis should be approx. 240,000 characters including spaces (plus any documentary appendices such as tables, sources, transcripts). The number of pages results from the selected font and formatting, taking into account the above-mentioned characters.

Withdrawal

The topic of the Master's thesis can only be returned once within 1 week of the start of the processing period. The examination office must be notified in writing of the return of the topic no later than one week after the start of the processing period. In this case, a new admission to the Master's thesis must be applied for and a new topic will be provided. If the candidate withdraws from the examination before the topic of the Master's thesis has been issued, registration for the examination is deemed not to have taken place.

Extension

If a submission deadline is not met for an important reason, the submission deadline can be extended by a maximum of half of the originally planned processing time upon request. The examination board decides on exceptions.

Submission

Two printed copies of the Master's thesis must be submitted to the Examinations Office. In addition, the Master's thesis must be sent in electronically searchable form by e-mail to pruefungsamt@biso.uni-siegen.de
. The postmark/receipt of the e-mail is the submission date.

Personal submission:
please note the opening hours

Submission by post:
please send two bound copies by post:

University of Siegen
Prüfungsamt BISO
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
57076 Siegen

Assessment

The Master's thesis is assessed and evaluated by the first examiner and the second examiner. The reviews must be returned to the Chair of the Examination Board with a grade no later than eight weeks after receipt of the thesis.

The Master's thesis must be assessed by 2 examiners with a grade of at least "sufficient" (4.0). The grade for the Master's thesis is calculated from the arithmetic mean of the individual grades.

If one of the two different assessments is worse than "sufficient" or if the two assessments are more than one full grade apart, the Examination Board will appoint a third assessor.

Failure, attempted cheating

The Master's thesis is deemed to have been assessed as "insufficient" (5.0) if the candidate withdraws from the examination after the topic of the Master's thesis has been issued without a valid reason or fails to submit the Master's thesis by the deadline.

If the candidate attempts to influence the result of the examination by cheating, the examination shall be graded as "fail" (5.0).

Repetition

In the event of poor performance, the Master's thesis may be repeated once.

Declaration of independence

The candidate must attach a written declaration to the thesis stating that he or she has written the thesis independently and has not used any sources or aids other than those specified and has identified any quotations(declaration of independence).

Further information can be found in the subject examination regulations for the Master's degree program (Education and) Social Work (in conjunction with the superordinate framework examination regulations), see download area.