If you are looking for a topic or a supervisor, we recommend that you first check the websites of the respective institutes to see which requirements you have to fulfill and which topics are supervised.

The topic and supervisor must be announced to the Dean of Studies using a form before the start of work. In any case, you must have formally completed the first stage of your studies and the PS "Methodology and Practice of Scientific Work" (M.1). To clarify whether your desired topic is still available, we recommend a topic query. You should discuss the resulting research results with your supervisor.

Of course, you can also change the topic and/or supervisor up until the submission of your thesis. In this case, this must be announced with a request for a change of thesis topic and/or supervisor.

Send the form by email to the Student Services Office. Please note that handwritten applications cannot be accepted.

• For data protection reasons, no affidavit may be included in the thesis; this must only be confirmed electronically upon submission!
• The following information must be included on the title page: Title of the thesis, your first and last name, the institute and the supervisor, place and year. If you don't want to do it yourself, you can findherea sample.
• Abstract in German and English (max. 4,000 characters each including spaces), as well as in the original language of the thesis if this is a third language.
• Font, layout, citation rules and the like are best discussed with your supervisor.

The following steps are necessary for submission in UNIGRAZonline (you can find detailed guidelines here)

• Upload the PDF abstracts in UNIGRAZonline in "My theses" and fill in all mandatory fields;
• then upload the final version of your thesis as PDF/A in the entry mask for the abstracts;
• click on "Submit now" (after you have checked everything carefully): your supervisor will automatically be informed by e-mail that the abstracts are to be released;
• Plagiarism check: your thesis (PDF/A) will be subjected to a plagiarism check after approval by your supervisor and approval by the Dean. You will be informed by e-mail as soon as the check report has been sent to the reviewer.

If important legal or economic interests are jeopardized by the publication of the thesis (§ 86 para. 4 Universities Act), you can apply for the thesis to be blocked for a maximum of five years. During the embargo period, your thesis will not be publicly accessible. Fill out the application for blocking the thesis and send it, including a statement from your supervisor, to the Student Service Center by email immediately after submitting the thesis in UNIGRAZonline.