examinations

The staff at Student Services will provide you with information and advice on all questions relating to examinations. The Examination Administration of the Student Service Centre is the executive body of the Examination Board. The Examination Administration is responsible for implementing and complying with the rules of the Framework Examination Regulations and the subject-specific annexes.

If you have questions about assessment-related or administrative issues that you are unable to clarify on the website, you are welcome to contact the relevant persons in Student Services.
In order to schedule a personal appointment with one of the staff members, please register via the office hours list of your staff member in myStudy.

General Assessment Regulations and Subject-Specific Schedules can be found here.

Registration for all examinations is done online via the university information system myCampus. The examination dates are absolutely binding.

The registration period begins with the first day of the lecture period and ends 15 days after the start of the lecture period. You can withdraw from an examination via myCampus up to 3 working days before the examination date or the examination phase without giving reasons.

The only exception is the Combined Academic Paper examination type. In this case, the above-mentioned withdrawal without stating reasons is excluded. This will be announced when the teaching and examination program is made available in myStudy. After successful registration for the examination, you will receive an e-mail. If you are unable to register, please be sure to contact the responsible person in the examination administration office at the student service center within the registration period.

myCampus

When you register for assessments via myCampus, you have committed yourself to attend the assessment(s). In the case that you are unable to fulfill your obligation to take an assessment, you must inform Studierendenservice immediately.
If you have not communicated your withdrawal or failure immediately, i.e. "without undue delay", or if your reasons are not approved, the particular assessment is considered as " insufficient"!
The legal basis for these regulations is the respective General Examination Regulations.

In case of illness
If you are unable to attend an assessment or unable to comply with a deadline due to illness, you must submit the original medical certificate to the examiner or the Student Services, depending on the type of assessment, immediately after determining that you are ill. The certificate must indicate that you are unable to take the assessment. Please ask your doctor to complete the form provided (a normal "certificate of incapacity for work" is not sufficient). You can find more information in the document “Information on missing assessment dates and withdrawal from assessments” below (German language only).

• Form for certification of inability to sit assessment (medical certificate, german)
• Information on missing assessment dates and withdrawal from assessments (german)

For data protection reasons, it is not permitted to communicate grades by e-mail. From a technical perspective, e-mails can be read like postcards. Additionally, it is possible that someone could demand results under a false name. Nevertheless, if you like to receive assessment results or Transcript of Records by e-mail, please send the completed and signed form Transcript of Records by e-mail to the Student Services Info Portal.

Grade certificates by e-mail

Assessments that were performed at other universities in Germany or abroad are recognised upon fulfilment of the corresponding requirements of the General Examination Regulations.

Important: work to be recognised must not be older than 10 years old.

Recognitions from Germany:
Please submit the application for recognition (german) together with the original copy of the corresponding performance record (e.g. transcript of records) as well as the relevant information on the content of the assessment (e.g. module description) to Student Services.

- Information on Recognition (german)

- Application for Recognition

- Contact persons for questions regarding recognition

Recognitions from abroad:

During the planning and realization of a study stay or an internship abroad, you will be supported by the International Center. Before your period abroad, you conclude a Learning Agreement so that the assessments sat by you abroad are recognised for your degree at Leuphana University without any problems. After your stay abroad, you submit the Learning Agreement together with the transcript of records about the work performed at the host university to Student Services.

Grades will be transferred in the case of comparable grading systems.

For non-comparable linear grading systems, they are converted according to the modified Bavarian formula

MODIFIED BAVARIAN FORMULA (MBF)

               Nmax - Nd
x=1+3 ---------------
              Nmax - Nmin

x = required German grade

Nmax = highest grade of the foreign grading system
Nmin = lowest passing grade of the foreign grading system
Nd = grade to be transformed into the German grading system

The result is rounded to the nearest German grade, e.g.: 1.6 => 1.7 2.4 => 2.3 2.6 => 2.7.
If the result is exactly between two German grades, it is rounded to the better grade, e.g.: 2.5 => 2.3 1.15 => 1.0 3.85 => 3.7

To convert the grades of assessments with other incomparable grade systems that were acquired within student exchange or student mobility programmes by sample students of all degree programmes, please use these links grade conversion table Leuphana Masters (german) and grade conversion table teacher education (german).

In the case of other, non-comparable grading systems, the assessment to be credited will be included ungraded with the remark "passed".

Generally, the Master's thesis is written at the end of the degree programme after you have assured yourself of your interests in terms of content and methodology in the previous semesters.

All the information about the Master's thesis and how to organise your Master's thesis in five steps has been compiled for you on the website Master's thesis.

In addition, helpful courses for writing the Master's thesis are regularly offered as part of the GradSkills.

In the Master's programme Management & Entrepreneurship, students of the study programmes Management & Business Development, Management & Human Resources and Management & Marketing can change their degree from Master of Arts (M.A.) to Master of Science (M.Sc.) on request. This change has no effect on their examination regulations and the modules to be taken.

Students in the discontinuing study programme Management & Financial Institutions can also change from the Master of Arts to the Master of Science. However, this entails a change to the new examination regulations of the Management & Finance & Accounting major and thus to a new curriculum. Therefore, some modules must be made up in the further developed major. Application (german)

Please save the 
Application form (german) on your computer and fill it out on your PC. Please hand in the printed and signed application to your responsible person in the Examination Office.