The bachelor project demonstrates your ability to competently identify, formulate, analyse, and address an academic issue within a defined subject area that reflects the core focus of your degree programme.
The project work itself consists of literature search and reading, possibly experiments, and processing of results. In short, you get the opportunity to explore what it means to conduct research. You can achieve significant progress with a project of this scope, as it deals with a defined topic.
The bachelor project covers 10 to 20 ECTS credits – the exact scope is outlined in your course of study.
As a rule, you will complete the bachelor project during the 6th semester of the bachelor programme
You must have passed at least 120 ECTS credits of your bachelor’s programme before starting your bachelor project. No dispensation can be granted from this requirement. However, it is acceptable to have passed fewer than 120 ECTS credits at the time when you register for the bachelor project in the SDU Student Self-Service,
Registration for the bachelor project takes place together with other course registrations via the SDU Student Self-Service.
The registration period is 20-30 November for projects undertaken in the spring semester, and 20-30 May for projects undertaken in the autumn semester.
If you are working on your bachelor project in collaboration with other students, each of you must register for the project via the SDU Student Self-Service.
It is important to find a project supervisor well in advance before starting your bachelor project. As a rule, all associate and full professors at your department can serve as main supervisors.
The supervisor is the person assigned to you during the project, who assists and advises you along the way. You can expect a minimum of 15 hours of supervision in connection with your bachelor project.
Supervision may include reviewing specific sections, introducing experiments, or similar activities. However, the supervisor is not expected to proofread the entire report before the final submission. It is the main supervisor’s responsibility to ensure that the bachelor project is scoped so that it can be completed within the set timeframe.
The project can be carried out with an external partner, such as a company outside the university. However, the main supervisor must be an internal supervisor, meaning a supervisor employed at your department.
You have the opportunity to complete your bachelor project in collaboration with a company or organisation, typically based on a practical problem. Collaborating on a bachelor project with a company/organisation strengthens your network in the job market and can serve as a stepping stone to your first job.
If you complete your bachelor project in collaboration with a company/organisation, you will typically have an external co-supervisor at the respective location. However, you must also be affiliated with an internal main supervisor at SDU.
An agreement must be made specifying the division of responsibilities between the external co-supervisor in the company and the internal main supervisor at SDU. The external co-supervisor in the company and your internal main supervisor at SDU often have two different goals for your bachelor project. The external co-supervisor will typically be most interested in your practical conclusions, while the internal main supervisor must ensure that your project complies with applicable guidelines and academic standards.
Non-disclosure agreements
If the company wishes to subject your supervisor at SDU to a confidentiality obligation, a non-disclosure agreement must be drawn up between you, the company, and the university. SDU RIO has prepared a template for this, which we recommend you use.
In all cases, any non-dicslosure agreement must be approved by Legal Services at SDU RIO before the head of your department can sign the agreement on behalf of the university.
As soon as possible after registration – and no later than one week after the start of the semester – you must submit a digital project contract along with an accompanying problem statement, which you and your project supervisor will prepare together.
If you are working on your bachelor project in collaboration with other students, you only need to submit one joint project contract with the names of all group members.
Once the project contract is approved, or if any issues arise during the process, you will be notified via your SDU student email.
Please note that it is not possible to submit the project contract after the deadline.
Reports must be written in either Danish or English.
A classic scientific report typically includes the following elements. In connection with communication projects and theoretical bachelor projects, it may be relevant to deviate from the classic report structure.
In any case, you will agree on the precise structure with your main supervisor, who must review your proposal for the structure of the report before you begin writing iy.
The highlighted elements are included when calculating the scope of the report.
- Cover page
- Optional preface
- Table of contents
- Glossary of abbreviations used
- Abstract/summary
- Hypothesis/project aim
- Introduction
- Methods and materials
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Perspective
- References
- Bibliography
- Appendices
Raw data and other information that are not essential to the report can be placed in appendices. The appendices do not count towards the page count of the report, and it is important that the report can be read and understood without having read the appendices.
If the results are of a quality where publication of data is considered, the project report can be written as a draft article in English. However, the supervisor must not be more involved in the writing process than in regular bachelor projects. Therefore, the supervisor’s detailed review of the draft article must wait until after the report has been submitted. This type of bachelor project will also include an additional theoretical sub-report, which accounts for technical details not included in the draft article.
The report must be submitted electronically in the system Digital Exam.
The report must be submitted as a single PDF document. Any appendices must be submitted as one or more separate documents. By default, all appendices are compiled into a single PDF document. If you have specific appendices that cannot be submitted in PDF format (for example, program code, films, and similar), these appendices can be uploaded as separate appendix files. You must name your bachelor report as "Bachelorrapport" followed by your name. Any appendices should be named with unique identifiers.
Once you have submitted the report, you will receive an electronic receipt in your SDU student email. It is important that you save the receipt, as it serves as your documentation that you have submitted the report on time.
You can find the submission deadline for the report in the course description for your bachelor project. If you do not submit the report on time, it will count as a used exam attempt, and you will need to register for the re-examination yourself.
If you write your bachelor project alone, the project will be assessed based on the report itself.
If you write your bachelor project in collaboration with other students, the report will be part of the assessment during a subsequent individual oral exam.
Regardless of whether you complete the bachelor project alone or as a group project, the project is assessed according to the 7-point grading scale with an external examiner.
The assessment deadline for bachelor projects is four weeks. This means that the grade for your bachelor project must be published no later than four weeks after the submission deadline.
You can apply for a dispensation to change the title of your project if, during the course of your work, you discover that your project is taking a different direction than initially anticipated.
You can apply for dispensation to postpone the submission deadline if you can document that you are unable to submit the report on time due to extraordinary circumstances.
Note that postponing the submission deadline must first be approved by your project supervisor, then by the teaching committee, and finally by the head of studies. Therefore, it is important that you contact your project supervisor before submitting an application to postpone the submission deadline.
Whether you are applying for a dispensation to change the title or to postpone the submission deadline, you must submit your application no later than four weeks before the submission deadline. If you do not meet this deadline, your application will not be processed.
The bachelor project can be prepared by up to four students together.
The report must clearly state who is responsible for which parts.
Only one member of the group needs to submit the report and any appendices on behalf of the group. Once the report is submitted, all group members will receive a receipt for submission via email. It is important to save the receipt, as it serves as your documentation that the report was submitted on time.
The report will be included in the assessment during a subsequent individual oral exam.