The Master's thesis is usually written in the last Master's study year. 

As a rule, there are the following application and submission deadlines: 

in SS:

by March 15: complete application to the dean's office
Issue of the approved topic by April 1 --> processing time 5 months
Submission of the thesis by August 31st 
in WS:

until September 15: complete application to the dean's office
Issue of the approved topic by October 1 --> processing time 5 months
Submission of the thesis by February 28 
Deviations are only possible in exceptional cases and upon justified application!

This should be discussed in advance with the respective examiner/supervisor of the master thesis. For more information on the examiner/supervisor, see 5.

The Master's thesis is a written or artistic-practical examination with which the candidate is to demonstrate that he/she is able to independently work on a problem from the chosen Master's program within a specified time using scientific methods and to present the results in an appropriate manner.

The topic of the Master's thesis must be related to the Master's program.

The master's thesis must be registered in writing using the form.

The topic of the Master's thesis and the reviewers are determined by the examination board. The examinee may express topic preferences. The issue takes place via the dean's office. The topic and date are to be made a matter of record.

The processing time for the master thesis is 5 months. The topic, task and scope of the master's thesis are to be limited by the supervisor in such a way that the deadline for completing the master's thesis can be met. As a rule, the scope of the master's thesis should not exceed approx. 25,000 words.

The master thesis has a value of 30 LP.

At this point, reference can be made to §19 of the framework examination regulations:

Only professors and other persons authorized to conduct examinations may be appointed as examiners who, unless compelling reasons require a deviation, exercise independent teaching responsibility in the Master's program to which the examination relates.

The Master's thesis is passed if the calculated grade is at least 4.00 or if two out of three examiners assess the thesis as "sufficient", in which case the grade is at least 4.00. The grade is calculated from the average of the assessments. The first two decimal places after the decimal point are taken into account, all other places are deleted without rounding. The grade of the master's thesis is thus calculated as follows: The grades of the examiners are added and divided by the number of examiners.

until SoSe 2021

The Master's thesis must be submitted in triplicate and once electronically to the chairperson of the examination board via the dean's office by the deadline. The date of submission is to be recorded.

From WS 2021/22: Resolution of the M-PA on the submission of MA theses via Wiseflow.

The M-Examination Committee resolves that starting with the winter semester 2020/21, all Master's theses must be submitted digitally as a PDF via the platform WISEFlow einzureichen sind.

The obligation to submit printed versions is reduced to one copy.

The printed copy must be accompanied by the declaration on honor and a declaration of conformity (templates) signed by hand.

You can find the entire resolution here

The PDF document must not exceed 20 MB in size. In addition to this file, another file with attachments or appendices may be uploaded (1 GB). Note the note sheet for the submission of master theses via WISEflow

You can find more information about WISEflow here.

Data protection

All submitted work is subject to a plagiarism check and stored on the University of Erfurt server for further plagiarism checks. Therefore, for data protection reasons, avoid any information that contains personal data about you or other persons. WISEflow generates a cover sheet for your work that conforms to data protection regulations. Here you only have to add the title of your paper.

Also, do not upload any additional materials that contain sensitive and/or personal data. Often these materials are not required for the review. If such file attachments are required for the review, they must be anonymized. Please be sure to discuss with your reviewers which attachments should be submitted before uploading files to WISEFlow.

Changing, adding to or returning the topic of the master's thesis requires firstly the approval of the supervisor and secondly the written application to and approval by the examination board.

If you submit the Master's thesis with a changed topic (title) that has not been applied for and approved in advance, the thesis will not be accepted and will be considered failed. This regulation also applies to the addition of subtitles!

As a rule, the master's thesis is to be evaluated by two examiners. One of them should be the supervisor of the master thesis. The thesis is to be evaluated by a third examiner if the grades of the first and second examiners differ by more than 2.0 grades or if only one of the two examiners evaluates the thesis as "insufficient".

The grade is calculated from the mean value of the evaluations. The first two decimal places after the decimal point are taken into account, all other places are deleted without rounding. The grade of the Master's thesis is thus calculated as follows: The evaluations of the examiners are added and divided by the number of examiners.

The assessment procedure must be completed after 8 weeks at the latest.

The master's thesis can be repeated once in case of a grade of "not sufficient".

In this case, please contact the MA Examination Committee. This committee will then discuss on a case-by-case basis how much influence this will have on your continuation of the MA work. If necessary, you will be granted a postponement.

In this case, the processing time will be extended by the period of illness if proof of illness is available.

This is done automatically after submitting the proof of illness to SUL and the Dean's Office. After processing, you will receive a document with the respective new submission date.

Framework examination regulations of the University of Erfurt 

Examination and study regulations of state sciences

Find the form here