• completion of 150 ECTS from semesters 1-5 and
• your internship papers are approved by the BIB Administration Office and the internship is finished (85 working days) before you write the thesis 

You can also apply if you still need to acquire up to six ECTS (semesters 1-3 must be complete). These must be completed during the 7th semester. Admission forms will be sent to you via email to your HTW Berlin email address on one of the two official admission days.

Please fill out the thesis application form [PDF]  and submit it to the BIB Administration Office  by the deadline specified on the page (end of teaching period)! Please send the application form to: Fachbereich3@htw-berlin.de, subject line: BIB thesis application.

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You choose the topic and the supervisor yourself. Only professors at HTW Berlin can serve as first supervisors. The thesis should address a business-related topic and investigate it both theoretically and empirically. Second supervisors can either be a professor or an associate lecturer from HTW Berlin.

You have eight weeks in which to write the thesis. 

Submission to the BIB Administration

Thesis Submission Details:

• Please submit ONLY ONE PDF file containing all components (cover sheet, affidavit, etc.). The affidavit has to be signed manually
• The thesis may only be submitted once (final version) and not in multiple versions.Please refrain from sending paper copies or CDs.
• Send your thesis only to the e-mail address of your department:  fachbereich3@htw-berlin.de ,Subject Line: BIB Thesis Submission

You must submit all documents to the faculty administration by the published and communicated date.

Should you unexpectedly encounter problems with your thesis topic, you may change the topic once within the first four weeks of the writing period. To do so, you have to fill out the Request for Change of the Thesis Topic [PDF]. Minor changes in the topic (wording) have to be agreed upon by the first supervisor and an email confirmation of the change from the 1st supervisor has to be submitted to the BIB Administration Office.

An extension of the deadline is only possible in exceptional cases (significant events that were not predictable and that were not under the candidate’s control before the thesis writing period started). Candidates must apply for the extension at least 4 weeks prior to the deadline using the application form [PDF] and submit it to the programme coordinator, Nicole Biehl.

Sickness during the writing period has to be communicated to the Administration immediately. A sick note/certificate of illness must be handed in within 3 days from the day of sickness to the BIB course administration office. A maximum of 7 calendar days is granted once. If the sick note exceeds 7 calendar days, an official certificate from a public health office must be provided.

The oral examination is the last examination in your studies. Before you can defend your thesis, all your grades have to be recorded in LSF and your examination file must be ready. Please check the Study Regulations for further information.