Deadlines and Dates

Examination dates Summer Semester 2024

Please notice that you have to register for all courses (lectures, seminars, colloquia etc.) via ZEuS.

Important: Registration for a course does not replace a registration for the exam! You will not be automatically registered for exams.

Winter semester 2023/2024:

1. Lectures / Colloquia: 2 October 2023 to 15 January 2024
2. Proseminars / Blockseminars (without kick-off session in the Shopping Week):
   2 October 2023 to 16 October 2023
3. all other seminars (= courses of the Shopping Week): 2 October 2023 (10am) to 27 October 2023 (5pm)

Summer Semester 2024:

1. Lectures / Colloquia: 18 March 2024 to 15 June 2024
2. Proseminars / Blockseminars (without kick-off session in the Shopping Week): 18 March 2024 to 31 March 2024
3. all other seminars (= courses of the Shopping Week): 08 April 2023 (9 am)  to 12 April 2024 (5 pm)

Please note: a course can only be recognized if examinations, assignments or seminars have been registered for before the deadline!

Summer Semester 2024

Registration deadlines for examinations, assignments, seminars (including block seminars and introductory seminars (Proseminare)) and colloquiums

• 1 May to 15 June 2024

Registration deadlines for retry examinations (2. appointment)

• 9 to 13 September 2024

Winter Semester 2024/2025

Registration deadlines for examinations, assignments, seminars (including block seminars and introductory seminars (Proseminare)) and colloquiums

• 1 December 2024 to 15 January 2025

Registration deadlines for retry examinations (2. appointment)

• 3 to 7 March 2025

Summer Semester 2024

• 1 April to 25 April 2024 (Working time until ca. early / mid July)
• 1 June to 27 June 2024 (Working time until ca. end August / early September)

Please note: if the thesis is submitted from 1 October onwards, graduation will be recorded in the Winter Semester.

Please notice the information regarding the registration and writing of the bachelor thesis. 

Winter Semester 2024/25

• 25 November to 17 December 2024 (Working time until ca. mid March 2025)

Please note: if the thesis is submitted from 1 April onwards, graduation will be recorded in the Summer Semester.

Please notice the information regarding the registration and writing of the bachelor thesis. 

Hand in your filled out and signed form corresponding your study regulation (Prüfungsordnung) for the registration of the bachelor thesis as well as the attachment to the application at the Examination Secretariat in D349.

Please note:

• The bachelor thesis and the bachelor colloquium are examinations - you have to register for it via ZEuS just like for all other examinations.
• We recommend that you take a look at the booking / module assignment of your examination achievements in ZEuS and compare the correct booking with your examination regulations. If you have registered an examination in the wrong module, you can make an early effort to have it reassigned. (Grade of the exam is already booked in ZEuS → Application to the Bachelor Examination Committee; login on university website required. Grade of the exam is not yet booked in ZEuS → email the Examination Office).
• The time of submission of your documents within the registration period does not influence the submission date of your bachelor thesis. Only after the end of the registration period the examination board will meet and the common submission date for all registered bachelor theses will then be calculated.

Summer Semester 2024

• 22 April to 21 May 2024 (Working time until ca. early / mid October 2024)

Please note: if the thesis is submitted from 1 October onwards, graduation will be recorded in the Winter Semester.

Please notice the information regarding the registration and writing of the master thesis.

Winter Semester 2024/25

• 21 October to 18 November 2024 (Working time until ca. mid March 2025)

Please note: if the thesis is submitted from 1 April onwards, graduation will be recorded in the Summer Semester.

Please notice the information regarding the registration and writing of the master thesis.

Summer Semester 2024

• to 15 March 2024 (Working time until ca. mid / late August 2024)

Please notice the information regarding the registration and writing of the master thesis.

Winter Semester 2024/25

• 10 July to 20 September 2024 (Working time until ca. mid / late February 2025)

Please notice the information regarding the registration and writing of the master thesis

Registration deadlines for theses in Bachelor- as well as Master of Education in Political Science are available on the website of the Central Examination Office.

Für den Lehramtsstudiengang Politik/Wirtschaft gilt die Anmeldefrist für den Antrag auf Zuweisung von Prüfern im Staatsexamen (bitte beachten Sie auch die Fristen des Landeslehrerprüfungsamtes)

• bis zum 31. März eines Jahres für den Prüfungstermin im Herbst (Klausur im August/September, mündliche Prüfung im Oktober/November)
• bis zum 30. September eines Jahres für den Prüfungstermin im Frühjahr (Klausur Februar/März, mündliche Prüfung April/Mai)

Winter Semester

• Seminar papers in Bachelor programs: 31 March
• Seminar papers in Master programs: 15 April

Summer Semester

• Seminar papers in Bachelor programs: 15 September
• Seminar papers in Master programs: 15 September

Deadlines at the Department of Politics and Public Administration are regulated in the following study regulations: 

Studien- und Prüfungsordnung für den Bachelor-Studiengang Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft

Studien- und Prüfungsordnung für den Master-Studiengang Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft

If you take the courses at other departments, you are required to follow their own program-specific deadlines.

Students from other departments visiting the seminars at the Department of Politics and Public Administration are required to follow the above mentioned deadlines.