The MA thesis is weighted as 25 credits of your MA.

Your diploma certificate can be obtained by applying for completion of your university degree (Antrag auf Studienabschluss im Master Studiengang). To do so, you must present proof of having completed all 120 approved credit points according to the examination guidelines. All course and examination points should be documented completely in your Campus Management. Processing takes ca. 4 weeks, and the documents will thereafter be sent to you via post. The application for degree completion is available online and must be submitted within 4 weeks after having handed in your final examination. If this final examination is your MA thesis, it is recommended to hand in the application for the completion of studies together with the thesis.

You cease being a student with your exmatriculation. The exmatriculation is treated separately from the application for the completion of studies. You can plan your own exmatriculation by requesting it in FU’s student self-service portal. On a quarterly basis, the examination office automatically exmatriculates students whose completion of studies has been confirmed. With your exmatriculation you lose your status as a student.

Before or while you apply for exmatriculation we strongly advise you download your Campus Management Transcript and save important emails from your FU-mail just in case. Once you are exmatriculated you will loose access to all FU systems (including libraries) and we cannot recover them for you.

Students will receive an examination certificate as well as an MA diploma certificate. Additionally, they will receive a diploma supplement, which includes a description of their studies, as well as an explanation of the academic and professional qualifications that the student has gained upon completion of their degree. Furthermore, a document with descriptions of the individual modules and their constitutive parts will be included. Please speak to the Prüfungsbüro about any inquiries regarding these documents.

For further inquiries concerning your MA thesis, please contact either the Prüfungsbüro for the Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften department, or the Global History MA program at globalhistory@fu-berlin.de.