Generally, you study according to the examination regulations that are currently valid at the time of admission to the degree program. However, you can also check the version via the QIS portal at https://vorlesungen.tu-bs.de. You can see which version you are currently studying in under the section "Grade list/certificates". The relevant examination regulations can be found in the documents section.
Students who request services from the university (teaching, supervision or taking examinations) must be enrolled in accordance with §19 NHG and may not be on leave of absence.
The writing and submission of the final thesis is an examination. Diploma, Master's or Bachelor's theses can therefore only be registered, completed and submitted if the student is not exmatriculated and not on leave of absence. It is possible to exmatriculate immediately after submitting the thesis (or after taking the last examination) (however, the examination has not yet been assessed and, if you have already exmatriculated, you would have to re-enrol for the next semester if you fail).
The thesis is passed if a so-called "4.0 certificate" is received. This means that the first and second examiners confirm after submission of the thesis that the final thesis has been graded at least "sufficient". The date of completion is the date on which the last examination was completed (date of submission of the thesis/ or the date of the last examination).
In order to avoid having to pay the full amount of semester contribution when taking the last examination (examination or submitting the thesis) shortly after the start of a new semester, the NHG provides for the following regulation: According to §19 para. 6 sentence 4 NHG, students can have themselves exmatriculated within one month of the start of lectures at the latest and then receive the full amount of their paid semester contribution refunded.
If all examinations and coursework have been passed, the corresponding certificates and diplomas will be issued automatically.
Certificates and documents are processed on an ongoing basis. As soon as your documents are ready for collection, we will inform you by e-mail.
The process of issuing certificates only starts at the Examinations Office after the assessment of your last examination has been received by the Examinations Office. This is usually the final thesis. The report on the final thesis should be submitted to the Examinations Office 4 weeks after the thesis has been submitted. Please enquire at the Examinations Office whether the assessment is available 4 weeks after you have submitted your thesis. This is the only way to ensure that there are no long delays in issuing your certificates and transcripts. Once the final examination results have been received, your certificate and diploma will be printed and then go through the signature process. It usually takes around 2 months for the certificate and diploma to be ready for collection.
Please note: You can only collect your certificates once you have provided proof of discontinuation.
In the case of illness, a medical certificate must be submitted to the examination office within 3 working days. The day of the examination is considered the 1st working day. If the last day of the deadline for submitting the medical certificate is a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, the submission deadline will be extended accordingly by this day and you may submit the medical certificate on the following working day. If you do not submit a medical certificate, the examination will be graded as "failed" (grade 5.0). If the medical certificate is sent by post, the date of the postmark will count as proof that the submission deadline has been met.
If the student is unable to take part in the same examination for the third time due to illness, a certificate from a specialist doctor, psychologist or psychotherapist must be submitted which is sufficiently informative to enable the examination board to determine the cause, degree, type and, if applicable, duration of the impairment.
A medical certificate can be submitted in the following ways:
In person via the Central Post Office (Universitätsplatz 2)
By post (if the sick note is sent by post, the date of the postmark counts as proof that the deadline has been met). It is your responsibility to ensure that a postmark with date is legible on the letter.
As a service for students, the examination offices of the Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Faculty accept the scanned original of the medical certificate in advance by e-mail or fax to meet the deadline. The original of the medical certificate must then be submitted to the examination office responsible for you within one week. If the original of the medical certificate is not submitted to the examination office within one week, the examination will be graded as "not appeared" (5.0).
Examinations can be repeated twice in accordance with Section 13 APO. Repeat examinations do not necessarily have to be taken in the semester following the examination attempt. In the last written attempt, the failure of which would result in the final failure and thus the termination of the degree programme, the grade "nicht ausreichend" may only be awarded after a supplementary oral examination
The topic of the thesis must come from the field of business information systems, computer science or economics. However, it must contain a relevant question from business information systems in the broader sense.
The processing time is:
Bachelor's thesis: 3 - 4 months (depending on the respective examination regulations)
Master's thesis: 6 months
Please note that you must be immatriculated while working on your Master's thesis!
A registration is possible:
Bachelor as soon as you have earned 120 credit points
Master as soon as you have earned 60 credit points
in the Business Information Systems degree program and these have been submitted to the Examination Office. You can find out whether you have achieved the required credit points at the Examinations Office or check for yourself at https://vorlesungen.tu-bs.de . If you submit the registration for the Master's thesis without the required preliminary work, the registration will not be recognized. Furthermore, the Bachelor's thesis CANNOT be re-registered with the same title.
First of all, you need to find a supervisor and agree on a topic for your Master's thesis. Please note: If you would like to write your Master's thesis externally, it is also necessary that you first look for a supervisor at TU Braunschweig! To register your thesis, please use the registration form, which is displayed in front of the Examinations Office and can also be found here. The filled out registration form, signed by you and the examiner, is sent by the institute to the examination office and the thesis is thus registered. The processing period begins on the date stated on the registration form:
Bachelor's thesis: 3 - 4 months (depending on the PO version) - (e.g. registration: 18.11.2022 - submission: 18.02.2023).
To do this, upload the thesis via TUConnect. The upload date is the submission date! No printed copies will be submitted to the Examination Office. However, the examiners may request printed versions of the thesis. You should clarify whether this is the case directly with the assessors. The deadline for submitting the printed version to the reviewers is five days from the upload date (Section 14 (7) sentence 4 APO).
In the event of technical problems (e.g. upload process), please contact your examination office before the submission deadline (by email).
The title of the thesis must match the registered title when the thesis is submitted:
In the event of a title change, the "Application to change the title of the thesis" must be submitted to the Examinations Office by email up to 7 days before the thesis is uploaded (including the signature of the first examiner). Please use the template sent to you.
You will receive all further information from us after registration in the document "Information sheet for submitting the thesis".
If the final thesis is your last examination and you would like to exmatriculate as soon as possible, you should always be sure that you have passed all examinations and coursework, including the final thesis. If your final thesis has not yet been finally graded, but the work has been assessed as passed in any case, the first and second examiners can issue you with a "4.0 certificate" confirming that your final thesis has been passed with at least "sufficient". We strongly advise against exmatriculation before it is certain that all examinations and coursework have been passed!
Notification of illness during the processing time of the thesis
In the event of illness during the thesis processing period, a medical certificate must be submitted. Please note that backdating the start of the medical certificate to a day before the start of treatment is only possible in exceptional cases.
The medical certificate must be submitted to the Examination Office on the third working day after the illness has been diagnosed.
The day on which the illness is diagnosed counts as the first working day. A Saturday also counts as a working day. If the third and therefore last day of the submission deadline for the medical certificate is a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, the submission deadline is extended accordingly by this day and the medical certificate may be submitted on the following working day. If two medical certificates have already been submitted during the thesis processing period, the third and each subsequent sick note must be a certificate from a specialist doctor, psychologist or psychotherapist, which must be sufficiently informative to enable the examination board to determine the cause, degree, type and, if applicable, duration of the impairment.
Medical certificate = certificate of incapacity for work or medical certificate on which the addition "Unable to take exams" must be included.
How can I submit the medical certificate on time?
As a service for students, the examination offices of the Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Faculty accept the scanned original of the medical certificate in advance by e-mail or fax (fax number 0531 391 8220) in order to meet the deadline. The original of the medical certificate must then be submitted to the examination office responsible for you within one week. If the original of the medical certificate is not submitted to the examination office within one week, the processing time for the thesis will not be extended.
In person at the examination office responsible for you, except in the case of infectious diseases.
By post (if the medical certificate is sent by post, the date of the postmark counts as proof that the deadline has been met). It is your responsibility to ensure that a postmark with the date is legible on the letter.
Important: The medical certificate must be submitted to the examination office before the official deadline.
According to § 19 (1) of the General Part of the Examination Regulations for the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes at TU Braunschweig, you are permitted to take additional examinations as long as you have not yet completed the examinations and coursework required for graduation. Students from Bachelor's degree programmes can acquire a maximum of 35 credit points from Master's degree programmes in this context.
Please note that if you wish to take additional examinations in the Master's degree program, you must apply for them at the Examination Board before registering! Certificates of achievement submitted at a later date will not be recognized as additional examinations!
In accordance with §19 (2), the result and the number of credit points achieved will be included in your certificate upon request, but will not be included in the overall result. Please do not fail to apply for this at the latest four weeks before taking the last examination required to successfully complete your degree programme!
Please note: Unfortunately, it is not possible to withdraw from additional examinations via the online system!
If you have to fulfill admission requirements, you must register for the respective examinations at the Examinations Office. The Examinations Office will inform the examiners that you will be taking part in the respective examination.
If you have fulfilled all your admission requirements and all examination results have been received by the Examinations Office, we will issue you with a certificate as proof for submission to the Matriculation Office. Please contact the Examinations Office in advance and inform us that a certificate needs to be issued. Please schedule about three working days for processing.
Would you like to have achievements that you have acquired in another degree program or degree or at another university in Germany or abroad recognized for the Business Information Systems degree program? We distinguish between 2 cases:
Change within the TU Braunschweig from a Master's degree program in business and economics to a Master's degree program in business information systems
Change from outside the TU Braunschweig to the Master in Business Information Systems
Please note that if you have taken an examination in the Master Business Information Systems, it is no longer possible to have this achievement recognized. This means that you must decide whether you want to have an achievement recognized or take the exam again. It is not possible to take the examination first and then, if you fail (or if the grade is unsatisfactory), have the examination from the previous degree program recognized afterwards.
1. Change from Master Computer Science to Master Business Information Systems
For all examinations or modules that are also available in the Master's in Business Information Systems, recognition is granted by an informal application for recognition and the corresponding list of courses to be recognized. The form "Recognition of achievements" must be used for all other achievements. Recognition is carried out by the examiners or lecturers of the courses in the Business Information Systems degree program. In addition to the submission of grade confirmations, the examiners may also require a description of the content of the course attended to be submitted.
2. Change from outside the TU to the Master Business Information Systems
To have achievements that were acquired outside the TU recognized, you must proceed as follows:
Read the guidelines for the recognition of achievements and fill out the form "Recognition of achievements" ” and submit it together with the grade confirmations and the description of the contents of the courses attended to the subject for which the achievement is to be recognized.
If the achievement has been recognized, hand in the form signed by the lecturer to the Examinations Office.
In principle, language courses can be included. If you want to bring in the first foreign language from your school days, the language course must have been taught to at least level B2. The second and third foreign languages must have been taught to at least level B1. All other foreign languages must have been taught to at least A1 level. In addition, all foreign students who wish to take "German" as a language course must have previously taken part in German lessons at a level of at least C1.
The Language Center's standard language courses are free of charge for TU Braunschweig students. Only the intensive German courses are subject to a course fee.
