Exams & Theses
On this page you will find information about theses: Deadlines & dates, an examination guide for bachelor's theses, an examination guide for master's theses as well as useful tips if you want to apply for the master design (MA).
An overview of the examinations can be found in the module regulations for your degree programme.
Deadlines & Dates
With the new study regulations, the examination cycles in the design department were changed so that an examination block takes place at the end of each lecture period in the winter semester and summer semester. The MA and BA examinations, the MA entrance examinations and the BA undergraduate colloquia take place during the examination block. No courses take place during the examination block.
There is no entitlement to be examined on a certain day. There are two dates per year by which the BA and MA papers can be applied for. The exact dates are always announced in due time.
The processing time for the BA thesis is three months, for the MA thesis six months.
The examination block does not have a fixed size. It is adjusted according to the number of applications and can be 5, 6 or 7 days long. As a rule, the final presentations (BA and MA) should take place first, then the MA entrance examination and finally the BA undergraduate colloquia.
Current examination dates for the design degree programmes can be found in the Incom workspace
Examination guide bachelor theses
Application for the master's programme design (MA)
Parallel to working on the bachelor's thesis, you can apply for the master's programme in design (MA).
The examination week for admission to the master's programme in the following winter semester usually takes place after the bachelor's examinations.
The most important part of the application documents is a proposal for the thesis project. This detailed topic proposal can be a project topic of your own choice or one specified by the design department. The currently advertised master 's topics can serve as orientation for the choice of a project topic.
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Based on the quality of the MA proposal and the portfolio, we then invite selected applicants to an interview. During this interview, the applicants have the opportunity to present their submitted proposal in front of an examination board. A maximum of seven minutes is allotted for the presentation of the proposal. This is followed by a discussion and question and answer session on the proposal and on samples of work from the portfolio.
The presentation should be structured as follows:
What is the topic? Why is it relevant?
What is your specific design question?
What specific steps do you plan to take in the course of working on the thesis?
The presentation must be convincing visually and in terms of content. Ideally, you should inspire the examination board for your project.
Examination guide master's theses
The master's thesis and examination form the artistic-scientific conclusion of the master's programme. It is an independently conducted work and is supervised by two professors who can be chosen by you.
It should have a length of approx. 80,000 characters (i.e. 60-80 pages) – correspondingly more for more scientific-theoretical work. Sources and references must be cited completely, correctly and consistently, literal quotations must be correctly identified and compiled in the list of sources (literature, bibliography, image, internet, etc.).
Please refer to the information and tutorials on the recommended citation style according to the American Psychological Association (APA).
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