Organising before starting your Bachelor’s thesis 

To be eligible to sit the Bachelor’s thesis module examination, you must have earned the minimum number of ECTS creditsrequired by your degree programme for admission to the Bachelor’s thesis (the date of registration applies). You should be able to find this information on your degree programme’s website.

Information regarding examination regulations can be found in the relevant subject examination and study regulations. If you have any queries, please contact the subject advisory service.

Before proceeding, you should consult the examination board for the relevant subject to ascertain whether it is possible to undertake a Bachelor’s thesis at the Institute of Statistics.

You can find potential topics for your Bachelor’s thesis on the linked page under the heading ‘Potential Bachelor’s thesis topics’. You are also welcome to suggest your own topics. It is preferable to submit three proposed topics for approval. A detailed research question and research plan are not yet required and can be developed with your supervisor following approval.

If you have any queries regarding this matter, please consult the Examining Board for the relevant Bachelor’s degree programme.

At the thesis meet-and-greet, you’ll also have the chance to find out about various topics and meet potential supervisors. The current dates can be found here.

The Bachelor's thesis must be announced at the beginning of the planned semester (deadline: 15 April for the summer semester and 15 October for the winter semester). The following documents must be submitted by email to abschlussarbeiten.stat-oek(at)uni-bamberg.de:

• Bachelor's thesis questionnaire (document can be found here(131.0 KB, 2 pages))
• Overview of services
  • You will need the "Certificate of grades with failed attempts", which can be accessed on FlexNow.
• Letter of motivation

By complying with the notification period, the candidate ensures the availability of a supervisor. If the documents are submitted after the deadline, the corresponding supervision can no longer be guaranteed, but in most cases it is still possible.

Potential examiners are:

• Herr Prof. Dr. Aßmann
• Frau Prof. Dr. Leucht
• Herr Prof. Dr. Schmid
• Herr Dr. Meinfelder
• Frau Dr. Würz

Once the documents announcing the Bachelor's thesis have been submitted in full, the chair will identify a suitable examiner and inform the candidate. If the candidate wishes to be supervised by a specific person, they can contact them in advance to request this. This is particularly recommended if the topic falls within the field of expertise of Prof. Dr. Leucht or Prof. Dr. Aßmann.

Supervision by a chair outside the subject area is also possible and should be clarified with the chair in advance. In the case of chairs outside the subject area, approval from the examination board is required, which can be obtained by email. In principle, supervision by Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid, Prof. Dr. Engelhardt-Wölfler and Prof. Dr. Trappmann is approved.

Formally, the examiner and supervisor are the same person. However, the examiner may also assign one of their doctoral students to provide primary supervision.

Once an examiner has been found who is willing to supervise the desired topic of the Bachelor's thesis, the Bachelor's thesis can be registered. Registration can take place at any time and is not limited to the lecture period. It is customary to register after approximately one month of familiarisation. The title of the thesis must already be finalised at the time of registration and should not be changed. In exceptional cases, however, the title may be modified with the confirmation of the examiner if it can be guaranteed that the content of the thesis has remained the same and the topic has not been changed accordingly. It is particularly important that everything that needs to be applied for and is not within the candidate's personal sphere of influence is already available at the time of registration. This includes, for example, data access or access to the computing power required to process large amounts of data.

The necessary steps for registering your Bachelor's thesis at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences can be found here:

Registration for Bachelor's thesis

After registration, the examination board will send the candidate written confirmation of admission to the Bachelor's thesis, including the topic and supervisor. This notification must be presented to the supervisor. Upon presentation of the notification, the examiner will assign the topic of the Bachelor's thesis to the candidate, at which point the six-month processing period begins.