Master’s Programme in Biosciences

All registrations for assessments must be made through the WueStudy portal.

To register for your thesis, you will have to submit a separate registration form to the chairperson of the examination committee. From there, it will be forwarded to the Examination Office. As soon as we receive your registration form, we will enter the details into the WueStudy system. You will then find them in your study planner.

Please contact the Examination Office immediately if you have any problems registering for assessments.

I am about to start my 5th (or 6th or 7th) subject semester. What implications does this have?

The standard length of the Master’s programme in Biosciences is four semesters. The examination regulations provide that you are permitted to exceed this standard length by two semesters. After that, you will be deemed to have failed your first attempt to successfully complete your degree. After one additional semester, you will be required to terminate the programme with no award.

The section below tells you what the Examination Office will do at the end of the semesters in question if you have not completed your degree yet:

At the end of your 4th semester: no reaction from the Examination Office

At the end of your 5th semester: no reaction from the Examination Office

At the end of your 6th semester:
If you have submitted your Master’s thesis already: You will receive a letter from the Examination Office informing you that you have failed your first attempt to successfully complete your degree. This letter will have no effect on the ECTS credits you have already completed or are yet to complete. The purpose of the letter is to let you know that you have only one more semester to complete your degree!
If you haven’t submitted your Master’s thesis yet: You will receive a letter from the Examination Office informing you that you have failed your first attempt to successfully complete your degree. This letter will tell you that you are deemed to have failed your first attempt at your Master’s thesis (which means that you will have only one more attempt at it!!!). The letter will have no effect on any of the other ECTS credits you have already completed or are yet to complete. In addition, the letter will let you know that you have only one more semester to complete your degree!

At the end of your 7th semester: You will receive a letter from the Examination Office informing you that you will be required to terminate the programme with no award.

(Since you have until the end of each of these semesters to complete your degree, you will not receive these letters until the beginning of the subsequent semester. However, this will have no effect on your status as having failed your first attempt to successfully complete your degree or being required to terminate the programme with no award even if you have previously successfully re-enrolled to continue your studies in your 8th semester. Please read the information provided by Student Affairs about fee refunds!)

• Credit transfer request form*

• Application to change to the most recent version of the pertinent subject-specific provisions (FSB)*

• Request to be assigned a thesis topic*

• Declaration of authorship*

• Request for the extension of the submission deadline for Master’s theses*

• Thesis defence registration form*

• Request to be issued with graduation documents*

• Request to be issued with a replacement of a lost or destroyed document*(diploma, certificate, transcript of records, diploma supplement)

*You can complete this form on your computer if   you open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• Subject-specific provisions (FSB) for the Master’s programme
• ASPO (general academic and examination regulations)

• Module descriptions
• Module catalogues and SFBs (lists of modules)

• Examination committees