Rules for master's thesis submission

Submission within the deadline

Examinations are held continuously for master’s theses that are submitted by the deadline specified in the supervision contract (if this date falls on a weekend, the deadline will be moved to the first-coming workday after the weekend).

Delayed submission deadlines

 (a) Submission the semester after the deadline: For students who do not submit the thesis within the deadline specified in the supervision contract, it is possible to submit the following semester, from:

• 1 to 30 April (if the regular submission deadline was in November)
• 1 to 31 October (if the regular submission deadline was in May)

 (b) Submission more than one semester after the deadline: Students who are delayed by more than one semester, and thus missed the April / October deadline the previous semester, may submit the thesis in the period from:

• 1 January to 30 April (in the Spring semester)
• 15 August to 31 October (in the Autumn semester).

Postponed submission deadline

• Postponed submission deadline is granted only in exceptional cases, and requires an application with valid documentation.
• Students who have been on exchange at a university through a UiO contract, and have been delayed due to the fact that this university has a different division of the academic year than UiO, can apply for a postponement.
• Note that the postponement does not automatically give you the right of supervision after the regular submission deadline has passed, and the supervision seminar is completed.
• A short period of illness (less than 1 week) more than two months before the deadline, does not qualify to postpone the submission deadline.
• If you have chosen to write about a topic for which the Department of Political Science or the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History does not have supervision competence and it, for this reason, has taken more time than normal to find a supervisor, this delay does not qualify for a postponed submission deadline.
• Unexpected problems in relation to field work, interviews, archival studies and similar do not normally qualify for postponement.
• Honorary posts and paid employment, even if relevant to the master’s thesis topic, also does not qualify for a postponement of the submission deadline.