Registering your Thesis using the Digital School Services

You are about to start a Bachelor's thesis, a Master's thesis or a research phase (consisting of preparatory modules and a Master's thesis)? Here you can find the steps to register such a research project.

To register your thesis, you need first to find a supervisor from the list of potential supervisors for your study program and then agree on a topic with them. Further information on this can be found on the pages of the respective degree program.

Registration of your thesis is only possible, if the theses of your study program are managed through this system and you are actively enrolled in the program. Currently, the study programs whose theses are managed via the Digital School Services are:

2. Choose a Supervisor

The supervisor must be a university lecturer included in the list of potential supervisors by the Examinations Board of your study program.

3. Enter a Topic

There are basically two options for selecting the topic after clicking on “Working title”:

• if you have agreed with the supervisor to work on one of the topics listed on the offering page, please select the respective topic,
• in other cases, please select “Own working title” and enter the working title agreed with the supervisor in German and/or English.

In any case, this is only a working title, which may change before the thesis is submitted. You need to agree the final title with your supervisor and enter it correctly before submitting your thesis. 

The “Working group” is automatically set as that of the selected supervisor.

4. Start of the Thesis/Research Phase

Enter the starting date of your thesis or research phase, which is then used to calculate the last possible submission date. The start of a thesis without preparatory modules cannot be in the past. The start of a research phase with preparatory modules before the actual thesis can be backdated moderately, as long as the official start of the thesis is still clearly in the future.

5. Language

At this stage, you do not have to specify the language in which the thesis will be written. This is only a planning stage and, like the thesis title, can be adjusted until submission.

If you wish to use the confirmation of registration of the Bachelor's thesis as a preliminary language certificate when applying for one of our Master's degree programs, you can waive your right to submit the thesis in a different language by selecting “Pre-define language”.

6. Submit your Registration Form

After clicking on “Register” the registration is created in the system. You need to confirm the registration data and program-specific declarations (especially the confirmation of rules on Good Scientific Practice). After that the supervisor needs to sign the registration which can be done completely digital. For this the supervisor can within one week sign the provided document directly at the TUM Trustcenter, or initialize the signature process using the thesis portal in the Digital School Services.

Only after the supervisor signed the registration digitally using the TUM Trustcenter, or the manually signed paper version is submitted to the student office, you will receive a confirmation of your registration.