The applications for the thesis can be found under Documents and Forms in the “Thesis” section. In Faculty 4, registration takes place entirely via Moodle.

Before you register your thesis, ensure that the following applies:

• All examinations from the previous semesters have been passed according to the examination regulations.
• Any practical phases, internships or preliminary work have been completed.
• You are aware of the registration deadline [PDF] for your degree programme (usually found on the degree programme page or in Moodle).

• First examiner: must be a professor at HTW Berlin, possibly teaching in the degree programme in the context of which you wish to write your thesis.
• Second examiner: must have at least an equivalent university degree to the one you are aiming for with your degree programme. In some degree programmes, this may be an external individual (e.g. an employee of a company) if they are professionally qualified.

• Obtain written confirmation from the first and second examiner. Please observe the faculty requirements.
• Collate all application documents (including examiner confirmations) in one PDF file. File name: Bachelorarbeit_Studiengang_Matrikelnummer.pdf or, correspondingly “Masterarbeit”.
• Delivery: Faculty 1 via Moodle, Faculty 2 via email, Faculty 3 via Moodle, Faculty 4 via Moodle, Faculty 5 via email

• Minimal topic adjustment: apply to the examination board to change the title of the thesis
• Change of thesis topic: the topic may be changed once only, and only within the first half of the completion period.

• The completion time begins with the official admission to the thesis.
• The deadline [PDF] depends on the degree programme.
• Apply for an extension (if necessary):
  • Pregnancy: submit maternity record book → extension for the duration of the maternity protection period.
    
  • Illness or disability: submit a medical or official certificate with a concrete description of the health impairment pertaining to the ability to take an examination and its duration (no certificate of incapacity for work) within 3 working days

• Format: one PDF file with cover page and signed Declaration of Originality (max. 25 MB)
• Cover page: first name and surname only (without matriculation number). Sample [PDF]
• Submission by email: Faculty 1: Fb1@htw-berlin.de, Faculty 2: fachbereich2@htw-berlin.de, Faculty 3: Fachbereich3@HTW-Berlin.de, Faculty 4: FB4-Service@htw-berlin.de, Faculty 5: f5absch@htw-berlin.de
• No paper or CD version unless specifically requested
• Declaration of Originality and AI documentation (in German)

• Voluntary publication of your work via OPUS (digital archive in the HTW Berlin library) is possible.
• If you are working with a company, you can mark your work as confidential. This requires a written agreement between the supervisor and the company. Your first supervisor can download a template from the HTW Berlin intranet.

A grade of 5.0 is awarded if

• the submission deadline is exceeded.
• any medical certificate extending the completion time is not recognised.
• the thesis is inadequate from an academic perspective.

The examination administration department will send you a notification with the request to submit a New Topic Proposal for Repeating the Thesis [PDF].

You have three attempts at the final thesis and final oral examination. In the event that you do not pass the final examination on the first attempt within the standard period of study, you may be granted a free attempt.

If you submitted your thesis no more than four weeks after the start of the semester and the only thing which is due to take place in the new semester is the final oral examination, re-registration is not necessary. Exception: Public and Nonprofit Management.