The defense of master's and bachelor's theses will be conducted on a full-time basis. 

During the diploma examination carried out on a full-time basis, students receive 3 questions about the diploma thesis.

The diploma thesis is submitted only in electronic form in the APD system.

Order No. 69/24 of May 27, 2024, by the Rector of the University of Economics in Katowice on submitting the final dissertation and conducting the final examination, and the rules for awarding diplomas at the University of Economics in Katowice 

The clearance slip will be generated individually after completion of the semester. The student will receive an automatically generated email from the USOS system confirming that the clearance slip has been added to the USOSweb account.

Procedure for students regarding defense documentation 

Dissertation documents

Formal requirements of final dissertations

General procedure for authorship evaluation

The master graduation exam has an oral form. It includes a short 10-12 minute presentation of the master thesis, given by the student and a question and answers section.

The PowerPoint presentation prepared by the student should contain the aims, research assumptions or hypotheses, research methods applied, as well as a summary of the research results and main conclusions.

The presentation should consists of no more than 10 PowerPoint slides. Students can make use of the projector and laptop available in the graduation room.