How to get started with your degree project and how to apply?

This page outlines the steps necessary to start your degree project.

Step 1: Find an interesting project

Everything starts with a good project idea, and it is the students responsibility to find a suitable project. There are different options:

• many departments and professors propose thesis topics, you can browse the department and professor web pages to find them, see department list
  
• you already have an idea of a topic of academic relevance
• you find a topic on https://kth.powerappsportals.com/sv-SE/student/ Links to an external site.

Step 2: Prepare a project proposal

Once you have found an interesting project, you need to prepare a project proposal following the EECS template. You can ask for feedback to the supervisor/examiner if you already have identified one. The project proposal will be submitted electronically as part of the application for degree project (see below).

Step 3: Find an examiner and supervisor (optional)

In general, the examiner and supervisor will be assigned by the degree project coordinator, and there is no strict need for students to reach out to prospective examiners in advance. However, students are allowed to reach out to prospective examiners, and in cases where a project requires a specific examiner or coordination with the examiner is necessary already in an early stage, this is also highly recommended.

Step 4: Application for degree project 

The application for degree project is submitted electronically. In order to prepare for the submission, please

• Complete the project proposal (step 2) and save it as a PDF file; please include your first name and family name in the file name. 
• Complete and sign the form Permission to Publishing Degree Project report Download Permission to Publishing Degree Project report
   and save it as a PDF file; please include your first name and family name in the file name. 

Both files will be uploaded as part of the application.

Last day of application For projects that are planned to start in January 2023, the application for degree project has to be completed by Dec. 15, 2022. Applications submitted after that date will be considered, however, with lower priority. Projects starting in other periods can be submitted any time.

 

Eligibility

The prerequisites for the degree project courses are defined in the course syllabus (kursplan). The office of students affairs will provide information on students' eligibility directly to the degree project coordinators by mid December.

Students who are not eligible will also be contacted by the Office of Student Affairs. If you do not receive an email from the Office of Student Affairs (please check your spam folder first), you can assume you are eligible.

If you know that an exemption will be needed, contact the master coordinator responsible for your programme before Dec. 1, 2022.

Please only submit an application if you know that you are likely to become eligible by the end of January (i.e., after results for the January exams are reported). 

 

Submission

The links to the online forms for application for degree project are found on the start page of this course room under your program. 

 

Step 5: Processing of the Application

The incoming applications will be shared with the examiners and supervisors and reviewed, and as part of the review process, an examiner may request mandatory changes of the proposal before accepting the assignment. Projects for which an examiner and supervisor is found and the student is eligible will be reported to the office of student affairs for admission. 

 

Step 6: Admission and Registration

The master coordinator will admit the student on the master’s degree project in LADOK in mid January, 2023. After the student has been admitted to the master’s degree project course, the student must register himself/herself in LADOK.