OVERALL SETUP
• The thesis in English (30 ECTS) is to be written within a fixed period of 4 months (April – July) and is usually written in the fourth semester. Under exceptional circumstances a one month-extension can be granted – this extension has to be agreed to by both supervisors. The length should not be exceed 15,000 words = ~ 50 p.
• The thesis is jointly supervised and marked by a full (?) professor from each department at the home and the host university.
• After the application – see below – has been finalized, the topic of the thesis may not be changed.
• The topic of the thesis is to be discussed and agreed upon with both supervisors; the supervisor at the university where the student spends her/his second year is the primary supervisor and should be the one primarily advising the student (in order to avoid conflicting advice). Students should start discussing the topic with their supervisors towards the end of the third semester.
• At the latest on the last day of the writing period the student is to submit three bound hardcopy versions to the exams office in Konstanz (Room F258). At the same time the student is to send one electronic copy to office.wiwi@uni.kn in Konstanz, and one copy to her/his supervisor at the home university.
• The thesis is jointly marked. The Konstanz professor usually submits a mark and a report to the exams office within 8 weeks; before that s/he should have had contact with the supervisor at the home university and should have either agreed upon a mark, or should have discussed her/his mark with his colleague. The home university supervisor sends her/his mark and the report to the exams office at office.wiwi@uni.kn in Konstanz.
• The student is sent both reports and the final mark. The final mark is aggregated from the Konstanz mark and the conversed mark of the home university, based on the grade conversion table agreed upon and published on the KN double degree website.
• The KN thesis is recognized as an equivalent to the home universities thesis.
