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Master Thesis

Masters Programme
NGO-Management (MBA)

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Index of contents
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MASTER THESIS ........................................................................................................................ 2

1.1

ADMISSION AND APPLICATION TO THE MASTER THESIS .............................................................. 2

1.2

ACADEMIC SUPERVISOR ..................................................................................................... 2

1.3

DURATION, REJECTING THE TOPIC AND REPEATING ................................................................... 2

1.4

LAYOUT REGULATIONS AND STRUCTURE ................................................................................ 3

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1 MASTER THESIS
The Master Thesis is a written assignment on a well-defined topic. The Master Thesis is to
prove that the student is capable of working independently on a practice-oriented task from
the field of NGO Management in a given period of time. Using scientific as well as practical
methods, the student has to complete the task with all its specialised details and its interdisciplinary relations.
Students should use and transfer their learned and experienced knowledge, methods and
working techniques into responsible management behaviour, based on a real project in
NGOs, CSR etc., inclusive a critical reflection on academic and practical approaches.
The Master Thesis can also be allowed in form of group work if the individual students performance can be clearly differentiate by means of paragraphs, page references or other criteria that allow distinction.
The Master Thesis can be written in English or in any other language (belonging to the acceptance of the advisors).
1.1

Admission and Application to the Master Thesis

Students are granted admission to the Master Thesis if they have acquired at least 30 ECTS
credits through their examination performance during the first and second semester and if
they have successfully completed the module Transfer Project.
The application for admission is to be filed with the chairman of the Examination Board in
written form. The following documents are to be attached to the application, unless they
have been submitted at an earlier date:
1. A declaration on which examiners are prepared to supervise the Master Thesis
2. Details of the topic that the supervising professor intends to issue for the Master Thesis.
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Academic Supervisor

The Master Thesis has to be advised by two examiners, one of whom must have supervised
the thesis. An academic supervisor (professor, lecturer) will discuss relevant expert, methodical, interdisciplinary or social key qualifications with the student, i.e. like definition of the topic of the Master Thesis, the general structure, discussions points etc.
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Duration, Rejecting the Topic and Repeating

The editing time of the Master Thesis (i.e. the time period from the date of issue to the date
of submission of the Master Thesis) is six months irrespective of whether the Master Thesis
deals with an empirical or experimental topic. In case of an empirical or experimental topic,
previous qualifications can be acquired outside the implementation period.
Students can reject the topic of the thesis once and only within the first three weeks after
being assigned the thesis. In case of re-taking an examination, this procedure is only allowed
if the student has not exercised the option of rejecting the topic in implementing the first thesis.
In case that the students may fail the Master Thesis can only repeated once.

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1.4

Layout Regulations and Structure

The approximate value of the complexity of the Master Thesis is 80 DINA A 4 pages (without
appendix and bibliography). The Master Thesis has to be written unidirectional in typescript
12 pts. (e.g. Times New Roman, Arial, Univers etc.). The line spacing has to be 1, footnotes
and index of literature has to be single spacing.
Left margin:

4 cm

Right margin:

2 cm

Top/Bottom margin:

2 cm

The pagination begins with the front page and ends with the bibliography.
General structure of the Master Thesis:

80 pages

1. (Hard-) Cover
2. Blank page
3. Front page incl. Topic (Example below)
4. Index of contens
5. Index of figures
6. Index of tables
7. Index of abbreviation
8. Chapter and text of the transfer project
9. Appendix
10. Bibliography
11. Signed affirmation (in lieu of oath)
12. Blank page
13. (Hard-) Cover

The following structure shows an example of the content of a Master Thesis and the number
of pages to be written for each chapter.
1 Introduction
1.1 Problem statemen
1.2 Objective and purpose of the thesis
1.3 Structure
2 Theoretical foundation
2.1
2.2
2.3
3 ...
3.1
3.2

4 ...
4.1
4.2

5 Conclusion

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The Master Thesis is to be bound and submitted in triplicate to the chairman of the examination board. A digital version (i.e. on a CD-Rom) is to be attached to the three copies in a file
format that can be generally accessed (i.e. txt, doc, rtf or pdf, without access protection).

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BONN-RHEIN-SIEG
UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
Department of
Business Administration Rheinbach

Master Thesis
to obtain the degree
Master of Business Administration

Topic

of the Master Thesis

Supervising
Professor:
nd

Prof. Dr. W. Terlau

2 Examiner:

Prof. Dr. H. Meier

Submitted on:

05.02.2010

By:

Fritz Muster

Matr.-No.:

9012345

Address:

11111 Musterstadt
Musterstr. 11

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BONN-RHEIN-SIEG
UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
Department of
Business Administration Rheinbach

Master Thesis
to obtain the degree
Master of Business Adminsitration
(Group work)

Topic

of the Master Thesis

Supervising
Professor:
nd

Prof. Dr. H. Meier

2 Examiner:

Prof. Dr. W. Terlau

Submitted on:

05.02.2010

cand.:

Kathreen Musterling

Matr.-No.: 9012345

Matr. No.:

9012346

Address:

Address:

99999 Musterdorf

By cand.:

Fritz Muster
11111 Musterstadt
Musterstr. 11

and

Musterallee 99

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Affirmation
I declare in lieu of oath, that I have carried out the thesis independently, using no other resources than those documented and indicated by references. Furthermore, I have to declare
that the thesis is neither identical nor bears any similarities with a thesis carried out in a previous degree course.

Place

Date

Signature