Points to take into account while writing your bachelor's thesis

The topics you can choose for your bachelor's thesis should be highly relevant for practice and policy and the thesis should to be empirically grounded. The bachelor's thesis can be written in German or English.

• Informal application by e-mail, stating one to three possible bachelor's thesis topics.
• Selection interview and choice of a topic as well as registration for the project seminar.
• After successful completion of the project seminar, Prof. Leišytė will write a letter to "Prüfungsverwaltung" to declare that she will be your supervisor.
• Write the thesis: in the process, make sure to send the questionnaire for surveys or interview schedules to Prof. Leišytė to get approval before you start your empirical work.
• Submit to "Prüfungsverwaltung", Dez. 4.3.

• July 15 to August 1 for the following winter semester
• February 15 to March 1 for the following summer semester

• Generally, all bachelor's theses at the Professorship are empirical (i.e. the self-organized collection and analysis of data is part of every thesis). This type of thesis has a time frame of 13 weeks (for details see the Prüfungsordnung).
• In exceptional cases, theoretical bachelor's theses are accepted. The specific topic must then be discussed and agreed on with Prof. Liudvika Leišytė. The time frame for this type of thesis is only 9 weeks.

The time frame (count of weeks) starts with the registration of your topic (a letter from Prof. Leišytė to the Prüfungsamt).

The topic you choose should relate to the main research fields of the Professorship of Higher Education.
Possible Topics:

Governance

1. Stakeholder representation and their characteristics in the boards of non-profit organizations
2. Diversity Management and gender equality in management teams
3. Factors leading to innovation success in professional organizations
4. The influence of board membership on performance of professional organizations
5. Management of organizational change in professional organizations
6. The role of chancellors in German higher education

Entrepreneurship

1. The role of student entrepreneurs in creating startups on campus
2. Characteristics of German entrepreneurs
3. Entrepreneurship and gender: differences between male and female entrepreneurs
4. Motivations of academic entrepreneurs to patent their knowledge
5. Policies of German universities to promote knowledge commercialization
6. Policies and practices of patenting in Germany

Profession, Performance, and Mobility

1. Importance of work satisfaction of professionals for performance
2. Working at home versus working in the office – implications for productivity
3. The motivations for international mobility of professionals
4. Factors leading to successful integration of foreign professional employees in Germany
5. The role of performance based funding on academic productivity
6. Changing academic profession in the managerial era: what happens to professional autonomy

Bachelor's theses at the Professorship of Higher Education are accepted according to certain preconditions and according to capacities of scientific staff:

• Successful completion of the project seminar of the Professorship of Higher Education
• Parallel to bachelor’s thesis: Participation in the Research Colloquium of the Professorship