Mannheim Master in Social Data Science

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Once you have been accepted by a partner university (in the case of free movers, the acceptance letter  will come directly from the university abroad), you should start filling out your Learning Agreement. We strongly advise you to conclude the agreement before you go abroad. That way, you are on the safe side and already know beforehand which courses will be recognized for your studies at home.

The Learning Agreement consists of two forms:

• Fill out the cover sheet once.
• Fill out one Learning Agreement form for each of the modules you intend to study abroad.

For the recognition of your courses and credits, you need to follow two steps: 

1. After it has been decided which higher education institution you will be going to, but before departing, you issue one Learning Agreement form for each module you intend to study abroad to the chair responsible in order to have the module approved. The contact persons for courses offered at the School of Humanities, the School of Social Sciences, in usiness Mathematics in Business and Economics, at the Business School, and at the Department of Economics are: 

   • all indirect Learning Agreements: Prüfungsausschuss WIM
   • School of Humanities
   • School of Social Sciences: Dr. Gledis Londo
   • Mathematics in Business and Economics:  PD Dr. Thomas Reichelt
   • Business Administration: Learning Agreements Business Administration
   • Economics: Dr. Christiane Cischinsky
   • Please note that we can only process complete applications and the processing time can take up to 4 weeks, depending on the effort involved and the current status of the applications for Learning Agreements.

2. After your return from abroad, please hand in the following four documents to the examination committee responsible for you at the School of Business Informatics and Mathematics:  

   • request form for recognition of coursework and examinations
   • Transcript of Records from the partner university: Original Transcript of Records stamped and signed by your host institution or a transcript verified by the International Office in Mannheim. For this purpose, the host university must send the document digitally to the address transcriptsmail-uni-mannheim.de. The verified transcript will then be made available digitally to the examination committee and you will be notified of this. If your host institution issues transcripts exclusively through an online portal and it is NOT possible to have your transcript sent directly to us through the portal, please inform us at transcriptsmail-uni-mannheim.de  and we will let you know how to have your transcript verified.
   • Learning Agreement(s), signed by the chairs at the University of Mannheim, as well as the cover sheet
   • confirmation by the International Office that you handed in your report

Your documents will then be checked and your grades converted. Grades obtained abroad will be recognized by the University of Mannheim on the basis of these conversion tables. After your documents have been checked, we will return the originals to you and transmit a copy to Student Services.

Please submit your application in digital form via your university email address. Therefore please send your complete documents to pruefungsausschuss.wimmail-uni-mannheim.de. To verify your transcript, please ask your host university to send your transcript directly to the University of Mannheim (transcriptsmail-uni-mannheim.de). Please note that we can only process complete applications and the processing time can take up to 4 weeks, depending on the effort involved and the current status of the applications.

The module catalog 2024/2025 (and Appendix) gives an overview of the course and contents of the program.

Please read the examination regulationsof your program carefully.

Student representative: 

You can contact the examination committee via pruefungsausschuss.wimmail-uni-mannheim.de           

Tasks of the central examination committee

We are responsible for the following topics:

• Advice on examination regulations
• Advice on module changes
• Advice in individual cases (such as extension of deadlines)
• Approval of reasons for withdrawal or delay
• Extension of examination deadlines
• Serious cases of cheating and breaches of regulations
• Determination of definitive failure with no option to re-sit
• Identification of missed deadlines
• Invalidity of examinations
• Appeal procedure
• Recognition of coursework and examinations
• Semester recognition certificates for BAföG, form 5 according to § 48 BAföG (also for LAG WPO)

Finding a supervisor and a topic for your master’s thesis requires early planning and initiative on your part. It is primarily your responsibility as a student to contact a chair that fits your study profile. This means that you need to contact several chairs or professors on your own initiative in order to find someone who will agree to supervise your master's thesis. It is the norm that students contact the chairs personally, and something we expect from students at our school. 

Who can supervise my master's thesis?

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