Organisation

The binding registration for the Bachelor's thesis is always done directly at the Examinations Office, where you can also download an information sheet on the Bachelor's thesis. In addition, please register with us at the institute.

Please register for the preparation of the Bachelor thesis via our registration form. In the registration form, please also provide the following documents:

• Tabular resume (including image)
• Transcript of records
• head card ("Leitkarte")
• possible to hand in a short expose regarding a specific prefered topic. The topic proposals should be briefly explained and justified on approx. 1 - 1.5 pages each. The topic proposal should be submitted as early as possible, but no later than one month before the start of the issue period. If only the survey form is submitted at first, it should be marked "Topic proposal to follow".

Issuance and supervision of thesis

The issue of Bachelor theses always takes place on Tuesdays (issue time: 9.45 am - 11 am in the secretary's office) with advance notification by e-mail to anna-lena.hernandez@wiwi.uni-muenster.de. The thesis is supervised by a member of the Institute staff assigned to the candidate. The supervising member of staff will be announced shortly before the start of the respective quarter via a notice in the institute's display case or at the latest when the topic is collected. After a brief familiarisation with the topic and the preparation of a draft outline, the candidate shall make an appointment with his/her supervisor. Any holidays or absences of the supervisor must be planned in good time.

Proposed topics by the candidates

The student's own topic proposal is desirable. If you have any questions about this, please speak to a member of the institute.

When selecting a topic, it is desirable to orientate it to the research focus of the institute or to the student's own special subject or language knowledge. The topic can come from the fields of accounting, taxation or general business administration.

A list of potential topics can be found here.

If the proposed topics do not meet the requirement level of a thesis, the candidate will be assigned another topic by the institute. Whether a proposed topic has been chosen will only be announced when the thesis topic is collected from the institute.

Practical thesis

If a student has appropriate contacts to companies, it is also possible to write a practical thesis. In this case, it is necessary to contact the institute at an early stage so that an agreement can be made with the company involved. Please also note this intention on the survey form. In particular, the candidate must provide the Institute with the contact details of a specific contact person in the company. It is a good idea to discuss a topic with the company and then submit it to the Institute as a topic proposal. The topic is ultimately determined by the institute, if necessary in consultation with the specified contact person. In this case, the student will also only find out whether or not he/she has received the desired topic when he/she collects the thesis. Under examination law, the practice partner has no say in the assessment of the thesis. Contractual agreements between student and company are also irrelevant under examination law and are the sole responsibility of the candidate.

For Master's theses, there is also the possibility of carrying out a structured Master's thesis in cooperation with Henkel AG & Co. KGaA in a structured form. Further information on this offer can be found here.

Formalities

With the thesis, the candidate should demonstrate his/her ability to work on a set problem using scientific methods within 8/12 weeks. The candidate is expected to have familiarised himself/herself in advance with the scientific method and the possibilities of literature research in the departmental and university library as well as the individual institute libraries. In addition, our guide with instructions on how to write scientific papers at the IUB is obligatory. In addition, participation in our tutorial on scientific work is recommended. The book "Brink, A., Anfertigung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten - Ein prozessorientierter Leitfaden zur Erstellung von Bachelor-, Master- und Diplomarbeiten" is recommended as literature for writing scientific papers. It is helpful to follow the guidelines compiled here when writing a scientific paper. It is helpful to follow the evaluation criteria of the IUB compiled here.