DIPLOMA PROCESS

The current legal act concerning the graduation process at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science is Resolution of the Faculty Council No. 216 on guidelines for the diploma process and the Rules of Study at the University of Lodz enacted by Resolution No. 449 of the Senate of the University of Lodz on 14 June 2019.

• A Diploma Thesis is the graduating Master's Thesis, Bachelor's Thesis or Engineering Thesis.
  The Bachelor's/Engineering Thesis shall be prepared by the student under the supervision of an academic teacher holding at least the doctoral degree. A student shall prepare a Master's Thesis at uniform Master's Degree programme, or second-cycle Master’s Degree programme, under the supervision of an academic teacher holding at least the academic title or degree of Doctor od Science with habilitation. The Dean may authorise, on hearing the opinion of the Faculty Council, an academic teacher of doctoral degree or an expert from outside the UL holding academic degree to supervise a Master's Degree Thesis (Rules of Study, paragraphs 52-55).
• The dissertation, which is an Engineering Thesis, should contain an independent study of a practical problem and may be a project, a comparative study or an analytical study.
•  A thesis that is an IT project should be accompanied by a detailed description that constitutes the project documentation.
• An introduction to the thesis should include a description of the student's own contribution to the results presented, as well as information on the resources used by the student to prepare the thesis.
• Excerpts from the thesis in which citations from other resources are made should be referenced with accurate bibliographic data.
• A student should also make use of scientific research papers when preparing a Master's Thesis.
• A title of the thesis shall be approved by the Faculty Diploma Committee no later than in the first month of the final semester of study.

The thesis review shall include:

• a description of the thesis content with particular emphasis on the student's own contribution to the results presented in the thesis,
• information on the compliance of the thesis with the thesis topic and with the contents and educational results corresponding to the given field of study,
• a content-related assessment of the results presented,
• information on whether and to what extent the work constitutes a new approach to the problem,
• characteristics of the selection and application of cited resources,
• evaluation of the layout of the work, structure of the division of the content, completeness of the thesis,
• evaluation of the formal aspect of the work (correctness of language, mastery of writing technique, table of contents, cross-references),
• overall evaluation of the thesis.

Thesis reviews are public and are placed in the APD system - except in the case where the reviews concern theses containing information subject to the protection of confidential information (Act 2.0 Art. 347 p.2.).

Questions for the examination shall relate to the diploma thesis and to issues related both to the specialisation studied and to general problems related to the study programme.

The diploma student's answer to each question must be assessed by the examiners. The grade for the diploma exam is the arithmetic mean of the grades for the individual questions according to the rules specified in the Rules of Study (Chapter X). The prerequisite for passing the diploma exam is a pass grade on each of the questions.

The Thesis grade is the arithmetic mean of the grades given by a reviewer and the supervisor in the reviews according to the rules specified in the Rules of Study (Chapter X).

The course leader of the degree projects (last two semesters of study) consults the thesis supervisor when passing the degree projects.

A reviewer of the diploma thesis shall be appointed, in agreement with the thesis supervisor, by the head of the unit in which the thesis is being written, where the supervisor or a reviewer shall hold an academic title a post-doctoral degree. Rules of conduct in other cases are laid down in the Rules of Study.

The student uploads the thesis into the APD (Archive of Theses) system and, once it has been finally approved by the supervisor, and next follows the applicable regulations.

Theses created in collaboration with companies must not be uploaded to the APD if they contain information subject to the protection of confidential information (Act 2.0 Art. 347 p.2.)

The supervisor is obliged to control the self-authorship of the thesis using the Uniform Anti-plagiarism System - JSA.

Other duties of the supervisor and a Reviewer are specified in the Rules of Study - Chapter IX.

Bachelor’s Exam

Master’s Exam

First-cycle graduates – licencjat/inżynier

Second-cycle graduates – magister

Bachelor's exam topics

Master's exam topics