In order to graduate from your Master's Programme you must have positively completed all the courses according to your curriculum ("Studienplan") as well as the positively graded Master's thesis and defense.

BOKU-Home students

Master's thesis

You have to register your Master's thesis as soon as soon as the task and the supervisors have been fixed and you start working on it.

It is mandatory to have a supervisor from BOKU and a co-supervisor from another IMaHS partner university.

More information on Master's theses at BOKU

ICP

Complete your Individual Course Plan (ICP) one semester before your planned graduation and submit it to the administrative coordinator at BOKU-International Relations (Contact) together with the Transcript of Records from your host university. Once it is approved (with all signatures), you have to submit both documents to Study services () for the mandatory offical pre-check.

Defense

The Master's thesis defense at BOKU is a presentation and defense of your Master's thesis. You have to organise a date for the defense with two university teachers (professors /"habilitated") - one of them being your BOKU thesis supervisor. The chair for the defense will be appointed by the Study services and has to be a member of a different department than the thesis supervisor. Students have the possibility to suggest a chair.

The co-supervisor from the host university can take part in the defense via video-conference or can be physically present.

The defense registration together with all necessary documents has to be submitted to BOKU Study Services at least three weeks in advance. The three-week period begins from the date of the application, providing all necessary documents are available and all legal requirements are met.

 

Please also see details on Graduation from international Master's degree programmes

BOKU-Host students (double degree)

After graduating at your home university, you can receive your BOKU graduation documents if all requirements for the double degree have been met.

Please submit the following documents to the administrative coordinator at BOKU-IR (who will forward them to the Study services) no later than 1 year after your defense:

  • Form “Request for issuing of graduation documents for Master's degree”
  • Admission certificate (BOKU)
  • Fully signed Individual Course Plan (ICP)
  • Graduation documents (master certificate) of your home university (important: date of the defense/final exam). If the final title of your thesis or the name of your main thesis supervisor are not mentioned in the graduation documents of the host university, please submit an additional document issued by the host university stating them (e.g. the thesis contract).
  • Transcript of Records from your Home University (with signature and stamp, including all exam dates + master's thesis)
  • Assessment of the thesis by co-supervisor (BOKU) (= either BOKU thesis assessment form OR official letter, signed and stamped, including a short statement about the thesis and a grade, issued BEFORE the date of the defense)
  • Confirmation of approval from university library: send an e-mail to ub.support(at)boku.ac.at
  • If applicable: Transcript of Records from all other attended universities during your master programme (not BOKU)
  • UHStat2 questionnaire (Info-Guide UStat - Info-Guide Substitute Code) 

The documents have to be submitted as originals or certified copies. You can send the scans to the administrative coordinator at BOKU-IR by e-mail.

Please also make sure to submit the permalink of your thesis from the host university's library to your co-supervisor at BOKU or - if you do not have a permalink - a hard copy of your thesis to the BOKU library. Only then, your co-supervisor at BOKU can enter the co-supervision in BOKU's research database (FIS) to have his thesis co-supervision acknowledged.