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Precision Consulting provides thesis help to students seeking a myriad of degrees (usually at the master’s level), including MA, MS, MSN, and MBA degrees. We specialize in customizing our assistance for our clients to help them receive approval quickly and efficiently. Our clients come to us from around the world for our expertise and attention to detail, as we regularly work with both master’s students and doctoral candidates in both the US and abroad, so we have a clear understanding of the specific challenges posed by the thesis writing process.

Whether you’re finalizing your topic and research design, or need extra support completing your qualitative or statistical analysis, we can absolutely assist you at every stage of your thesis to ensure you have a compelling study that’s ready for approval and publication.

There are 3 ways to initiate contact with us:

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Please be prepared to discuss the specifics of your project, your timeline for assistance, and any other relevant information regarding your proposed consultation. We respect the confidentiality of your project and will, at your request, supply you with a Non-Disclosure Agreement before discussing specifics.

Thesis Introduction Writing:

Here is where we will assist you as you outline your full study, providing some context for the issue and describing the problem you’ve identified, the specific purpose of your study, the research questions you propose to answer through your data collection, and the overall study design.

We can ensure that your introduction includes citations of both recent and seminal studies in your discipline that justify your specific approach in your research.

Literature Review:

Often the most time-consuming element of thesis writing is developing a thorough literature review –and if your university requires a 2-3 chapter literature review including 100-200 sources (as is often the case for our thesis writing clients in the UK and other Commonwealth countries), this is especially the case! That being said, the literature review is critical to the success of your thesis, as this section will reinforce the existence of a current gap in research that your study will address. This section will also outline the theoretical or conceptual framework for your approach, and if you are a novice researchers, we can absolutely draw on our expertise across a wide range of disciplines to help you identify the best theory or theories to guide your inquiry.

Methodology: Research, Structure, and Detailed Explanation of Methods

We can help you provide a detailed explanation of your research design, including why the selection of a your specific quantitative or qualitative research approach is best to investigate your particular research questions and hypotheses (if appropriate). As with the previous sections, this chapter will incorporate references to established researchers and research methods to prove the credibility of your specific methodology. We’ll be sure that this work includes any and all relevant information regarding your data collection instruments and explain and justify your sampling strategy for your participants, your proposed data collection methods, and your specific testing plan and/or qualitative analysis protocol.

In finalizing your methodology, we’ll be sure you address all ethical considerations and potential limitations (such as your assumptions as a researcher, and the validity and reliability of your data) in full.

Thesis Data Analysis and Results:

Since many thesis projects include primary and/or secondary data analysis, we’ve become familiar with a wide variety of government databases, school-based data, standardized test data, medical data, financial reports, in addition to virtually every type of qualitative data such as interviews, focus groups, primary historical documents, and speeches, among many others. Regardless of your specific dataset or data collection instrument, we can import and clean (if necessary) your data, prior to completing whatever qualitative or statistical analysis you might require. We’re experts in quite sophisticated statistical analysis (including path analysis and SEM), as well as in-depth qualitative analysis protocols often required for exploratory or larger-scale research projects, so we’re well-equipped to assist with virtually any data analysis and results discussion. As part of our comprehensive assistance to draft your results, we can incorporate tables and figures, as appropriate, to provide clear visual illustrations of each of your key findings. At the end of this process, we would be able to provide you with all the files generated by the coding, as SPSS, NVivo, and/or pdf files, as appropriate.

Discussion and Conclusion:

Based on the findings outlined in the results section, we can help you draft a full discussion and conclusions section , providing critical analysis of your findings to highlight their significance for implementation and future research on your topic, both for the population and/or region represented by your dataset or participants, and with discussion of how the findings intersect with more general research in the field. Essentially, your results will guide the organization of this section’s discussion of the broader landscape of your research. By incorporating significant discussion of current scholarship in the field, this section will, in the process, confirm the importance of your results. Finally, this section would describe any limitations that emerged from your research and make recommendations for continued research, before summarizing the thesis in full.

Final Thesis Editing (MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, and more):

Once your thesis is completed, we can help conduct a thorough edit of the work following any major editing standard including APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and Turabian. We would ensure that your document is ready to submit based on a comprehensive review for grammar, sentence structure, overall formatting (both for your selected editing standard and your university’s requirements ), references, citations, preliminaries, and appendices.

Defense Preparation and Coaching:

We see ourselves as teachers and would love to assist you so that you’re ready to present your work confidently to your review board. For a better idea of how we approach this assistance, please visit our dissertation defense page .

For all of our thesis writing clients, we offer free initial personal consultations to gain an in-depth understanding of your university’s requirements and your personal goals for your thesis. This level of personal attention ensures that you receive approval as efficiently as possible. This is part of our overall approach to provide you with customized assistance based on your needs. Many of our clients who come to us for thesis help have a completed thesis and need help revising the work based on specifically requested revisions. In these cases, we carefully review the changes being requested, discuss them with you, and develop a plan to optimally and completely address each and every change your advisor may have requested. We also cover any additional revisions in our thesis help so that you can be sure that your work will be 100% approved.

Let’s keep it a secret…

In this first video, we’ll talk about a key characteristic of all well-designed research, which is alignment. [does some funny little voice while enunciating the individual syllables of “a-lign-ment” while gesturing in a left-to-right line to set the stage for the visual presentation of alignment that is to come] Whether you are a beginning researcher, conducting your earliest research projects for your master’s or doctoral degrees, or a seasoned researcher conducting studies for publication, achieving alignment in your study is super important. It’s an area that we find our clients need lots of help with when doing their dissertations. So, I’ll be talking with you today about alignment to provide you with a clear and more concrete understanding of what alignment means, as well as with an understanding of how to achieve alignment in your study and why this is so important.

Creating alignment is a key part of developing your topic, and if you’re still looking to more fully develop your own topic, we can provide help with your dissertation focus and other elements for you. Check out our video on topic development for more!

Alignment is an essential characteristic of a well-designed study, and yet it can be quite difficult to achieve for novice researchers. In fact, we often provide dissertation help to clients who are struggling to align their studies. And, we commonly find that alignment issues are truly the root problem that reviewers often mislabel as editing issues at the dissertation prospectus, concept paper, or proposal stage.

So before you focus your efforts on APA editing needlessly, let’s talk first about how to achieve alignment in your study, starting with what alignment means. When your study is appropriately aligned, this means that all of the core pieces of your research plan follow logically from the problem that you have constructed from your review of the research literature. Following your problem statement, you must craft the subsequent pieces of your research plan so that they all match one another in terms of the language that you use to discuss variables or phenomena of interest, and the plans you construct for collecting and analyzing your data. As I mentioned previously, we often find that master’s and doctoral candidates, as novice researchers, need some dissertation help when different pieces of their studies don’t quite fit together as well as they should. When we provide this form of dissertation consulting, here are the areas that we ensure are aligned:

The key features of the study that must be aligned are the problem statement, the purpose statement, the research questions, the theoretical framework, the method and design, the data collection and analysis procedures, and the significance of the study.

You might visualize these different key pieces of your study as boxcars on a train that must all be linked together for your study to function successfully as a process for gaining new insights or understanding of your topic.

If any of these cars are not linked to the car preceding it, then clearly your study will be a nonfunctional collection of segments that don’t work well with one another. In other words, the train falls apart and never gets to its destination! We don’t want that, do we? To clarify how these different segments of your study fit together, let’s move on to discuss each of these in more detail.

The problem statement is essentially the centerpiece of your study, or the engine that drives the train forward. Although this statement is usually fairly brief, at about 350 words or so, the information contained within the statement defines the direction the entire study will follow.

Your problem statement must define the exact nature of the problem as derived through a thorough review of all current research in the peer-reviewed literature related to your topic. The problem statement must also describe the research gap, which refers to a specific topic that has not been studied sufficiently and requires further examination through research.

As an example, your problem statement might revolve around high school students who engage in aggressive behaviors at school in spite of the presence of a schoolwide positive behavior support program. Maybe there have been several quantitative studies that document the overall positive effects of this type of schoolwide program on student challenging behavior, but the researchers who conducted these studies found that in spite of widespread improvements in behavior in response to such programs, many students continue to exhibit aggressive behavior, leaving us to ask: Why is this? Why is it that certain kids keep fighting and yelling at school, even under a behavior support program that has been so helpful to so many other students?

The lack of understanding of continued aggressive behavior by some students within schools that use schoolwide positive behavior supports would be the gap that these researchers argue must be better understood if we are to effectively address aggressive behavior across all students.

Now, following from this problem and research gap is the purpose of the study, or the purpose statement. The purpose is a very concise statement that basically says, “This is what I’m trying to do here in this study, and here’s how I’m going to do it.” In order to achieve alignment, the purpose must match what has been stated in the problem statement, which is accomplished through use of the same language to describe your variables or phenomena of interest. The purpose statement must also specify the method and design and must use language that “fits” this approach.

Using the example of the problem and research gap from above, an appropriate purpose statement might be: “The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore middle school teachers’ perspectives on underlying causes of continued aggressive behavior in students within schools that use schoolwide positive behavior supports.”

Let’s have a look at the key pieces of this purpose statement.

So, we have a qualitative case study, the word “explore,” middle school teachers’ perspectives, continued aggressive behavior in students, and schools that use schoolwide positive behavior supports. So, those are all the key pieces of the purpose statement.

What you’ll notice here is that this purpose statement specifies an intent to examine the very same problem that is described in the problem statement. This is essential for achieving alignment.

Also, the qualitative method is aligned with the problem because we are seeking to understand a phenomenon that is somewhat rare, and that might require perspectives of those who have witnessed this problem first-hand to understand fully. Note also the use of the word “explore” in the purpose statement. This is a deliberate choice of words as qualitative studies are largely exploratory, and aimed at using such exploration to better understand complex processes.

The link from the problem to the purpose is essential to establishing an aligned study. We often find that doctoral candidates need some assistance with their dissertations here as the phrasing used in the purpose statement must be extremely concise and yet precisely aligned with each key concept, variable, or phenomenon as presented in the problem statement.

This is something that many of our clients struggle with, and if you are also finding yourself struggling to align your problem and purpose, give us a call or send an email to see how we can help you out with this major step in crafting your dissertation. No matter where you attend, we can definitely help you out with alignment.

But, we have particularly extensive experience with all of the major online universities, and are very familiar with their formats, review processes, and the types of alignment problems that often arise for individuals at these universities. And, if we help you with establishing alignment in your dissertation, we’ll provide unlimited revisions to our work with no extra charge as needed to obtain approval of your work.

Next in the alignment chain are the research questions, which must align with your purpose in terms of the variables or phenomena of interest that you plan to study. You must also use phrasing in these questions that is consistent with the method and design for your study. In the working example I have been using, an appropriate research question might be, “How do middle school teachers working in schools that implement schoolwide positive behavior supports perceive the causes for continued aggression in students in their schools?” Note that this question maintains consistent focus on the perceptions of middle school teachers, that the question specifies that schoolwide positive behavior supports are in place, and continues with the focus on causes for continued aggression in some students.

Next is the theoretical framework, which must be appropriate for guiding inquiry and developing research questions that suitably address your problem. It must also fit your study in terms of its applicability for interpreting or explaining the ultimate findings or results of the analysis. In the current example, it would be important to pick a theory that is relevant to student behavior and the causes for different types of behavior. So, picking a theory like Observational Learning Theory or Ecological Systems Theory would work, as these are theories that explain human behavior in terms of different types of social and environmental influences.

Aligning the theoretical framework to the purpose statement and RQs can also be a bit tricky for new researchers. Choosing a useful TF requires seeing how the different variables or phenomena of interest in your study might interact with regard to your specific RQs or outcomes of interest; this can sometimes require piecing together existing knowledge on your topic and making a reasonable guess as to the theory or combination of theories that might ultimately be helpful in explaining your findings. Sometimes this process can be quite confusing, especially when you are examining RQs that are unique or groundbreaking. In this case, you might find that you need help reworking this part of your dissertation to identify the most fitting theory or combination of theories to frame your study and interpret its findings.

Moving forward, the method and design must be appropriate for examining the specific problem articulated, and for generating knowledge that will truly shed light on the problem as described. As I mentioned previously, the qualitative method would be appropriately aligned to this study because of your aim of exploring a poorly understood phenomenon, which is the continued aggression in certain students in spite of schoolwide positive behavior supports.

The case study design is also aligned with this focus, because this design is great for building understanding of complex processes as they naturally occur in specific groups or settings. You can see how exploring teachers’ perceptions of the causes of aggression within certain schools would turn out to be a very complex study, which would be concerned with how the complexities of student behavior unfold on a daily basis within schools that use positive behavior supports. For these reasons, the qualitative case study design is nicely aligned with the overall study.

Also, keep in mind that we are unique among data analytics companies in that we also specialize in qualitative research and analysis, so if you are planning a qualitative study and are having problems with alignment, I am 100% sure that we can help you to resolve these problems.

To maintain alignment, your data collection procedures must be developed to obtain data of a type that is appropriate given the method and design. Similarly, the data analysis plan must be appropriate given the nature of the data, variables, research design.

For a qualitative case study design, you would want to use data collection approaches like interviews, observations, and review of relevant documents. You would want to draw up an analysis plan that identified common themes and facilitated triangulation across your different data sources. If you put together a data collection plan that used quantitative measures, this would result in misalignment, as the data you collected would be numerical rather than text-based.

Aligning your methods to your problem, purpose, and research questions is essential for ensuring that the results or findings you ultimately obtain truly address the problem that you have identified. Creating an aligned method requires not just attention to consistent phrasing related to your variables or phenomena of interest, but also a thorough understanding of statistical analysis or qualitative analysis. We often provide dissertation help to clients to develop thorough methods sections that are perfectly aligned with the overall aims of their studies.

We have extensive experience with all of the major online universities, and are very familiar with their formats, review processes, and the types of alignment problems that often arise for individuals at these universities. Also, we are the only academic consulting firm that specializes in qualitative research. If you are planning a qualitative study and are having problems with aligning the various components of your qualitative methodology, we can definitely help you out. Also, we provide unlimited revisions to our work with no extra charge as needed to obtain approval of your work.

Finally, the significance refers to the potentially positive outcomes of your study, if all goes well. To maintain alignment, your significance of the study section must logically flow from the problem, and cannot overreach the bounds of what is possible to accomplish given the potential findings of the study.

Given our running example, an aligned significance section would point out that gaining understanding of teachers’ perceptions of the causes for continued aggression in students within a schoolwide positive behavior support program might be helpful in effectively addressing challenging behavior in students whose behavior is resistant to change.

Ensuring that your proposed study is perfectly aligned is important for obtaining approval of your study. But, the reasons for seeking out dissertation help around alignment issues in your proposed study are really much more important than this. If you move forward with collecting your data in a proposed study that is not well aligned, you can run into some serious problems down the road.

To help explain the vital importance of alignment in your study, it will be helpful to ask: Why is it a problem if elements of my study are not aligned?

If your study is out of alignment, this means that one or more of these key pieces aren’t linked with the pieces around them.

There are some pretty serious consequences of moving forward with an improperly aligned study. For one, it could result in collecting data that do not address your problem, or that cannot actually answer your research questions. Also, this could result in conducting data analysis that results in unreliable, invalid, or untrustworthy findings. Lastly, a misaligned study could result in findings that cannot be soundly interpreted within the explanatory theoretical framework for the study.

These are clearly problems that no researcher wants to deal with, especially when you are just getting started. This is definitely where a dissertation consultant can come in handy, and if you would like some help with your dissertation proposal or prospectus to resolve alignment problems, give us a call or send an email — we’d love to help you out!

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We are highly committed to helping graduate students finish their dissertations or master’s theses and making graduate school as positive a learning experience as possible. We promise to focus on your individual needs and provide honest, straightforward, confidential, and high quality services that will help you successfully earn your degree. Each professional who works at The Dissertation Coach is an expert dissertation and thesis coach, consultant, statistician and/or editor carefully selected to work on our team. No matter how long it has been since you started graduate school, how much you have struggled, or how pessimistic you are about making it to the finish line, we are committed to helping you.

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Dissertation consulting is a service we designed to offer technical assistance to graduate students as they carry out their thesis or doctoral research. We can help you develop a sound study, support you to competently execute the study, and successfully complete and defend the final product. Our dissertation consultants are experts in developing a dissertation or thesis topic, developing literature reviews, research design, methodology, developmental editing, statistical analysis, qualitative analysis and writing up research findings. As consultants we provide clear, direct guidance and mentoring that will help you succeed while you remain the author of your own work. Read more about dissertation consulting on our Consulting and Statistics pages.

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Over the course of two decades, Dissertation Genius has assisted hundreds of students from a wide variety of majors with their Masters’ degree thesis, including MBA, MS, MA, and MSN degrees.

For over twenty years, we have helped masters and doctoral candidates all over the globe get their studies approved and even published in the leading academic journals of the day. We are able to do this because we are vastly experienced, professional, and attentive to every detail, which is why so many clients come to us for help .

Moreover, our approach is fully-customized around your specific needs thus getting your thesis approved quickly and efficiently.

Please feel free to visit our Dissertation & Thesis Help page to get a more comprehensive look at what exactly we can do for you.

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Fully-Personalized Consulting

When you come to us, we find out exactly what your specific goals are as well as the requirements of your university. Based on this information, we work with you to develop a comprehensive plan to help achieve exactly what you require.

Specialized Expert Consultants

From the beginning, you are assigned an experienced PhD consultant who specializes in your specific area of study.

Among the areas our staff specializes in are:

• Anthropology
• Business and Technology
• Criminal Justice
• Educational Leadership and Management
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• Health Sciences
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• Public Health

Fully-Customized Approach

Regardless of your specific situation, we can help you no matter what phase of your project you are in and no matter what your requirements are.

Methodology Assistance

We offer expert coaching and consultation with your research methodology. This includes coaching you through outlining your sample & size, determining the appropriate research design and data collection strategy, and ensuring proper alignment of the methodology with the rest of your work.

Literature Review

We can coach you through your writing of your literature review. This includes guidance and support as you identify all relevant works and providing suggestions to help you balance your literature review with numerous perspectives . For more details about literature review help, please visit our Literature Review Page .

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With numerous statistics PhDs on our staff, we provide in-depth assistance with your study’s analysis. We also have a vast amount of expertise with statistical analysis software. Please visit our Data Analysis page  for more details.

Comprehensive Discussion Section Help

We provide focused coaching as you develop the discussion of your results and advice around how to show that your findings filled the research gap it initially aimed to address. We also advise you on potential areas of future research and discuss the implications of your results with you.

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Our highly experienced consultants have helped hundreds of students successfully defend their thesis. For more detailed information, please visit our page on how we help you Prepare for the Defense .

Final Edits and Presentation Prep

We ensure your study fulfills the required editing standard (i.e. MLA, APA, etc.) and eliminate grammar & structure errors to make sure the entire study fulfills university requirements. Your references, citations, and appendices will also be perfectly optimized to prepare your manuscript for final submission. We do not write or add any content or narrative as part of the editing service.

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We know how vital confidentiality is to you and that is why we provide you with a non-disclosure agreement from our first meeting. This way, you can make sure your intellectual property will never be shared with any outside party and that all consultation between you and our staff is fully and completely confidential.

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How to Write a Master's Thesis Proposal

How to write a master’s thesis proposal is one of the most-asked questions by graduate students. A master's thesis proposal involves a copious amount of data collection, particular presentation ethics, and most importantly, it will become the roadmap to your full thesis. Remember, you must convince your committee that your idea is strong and unique, and that you have done enough legwork to begin with the first few drafts of your final thesis. Your proposal should serve as a foundational blueprint on which you will later build your entire project. To have the perfect thesis proposal, you need to have original ideas, solid information, and proper presentation. While it is a good idea to take assistance from thesis writing services , you still need to personally understand the elements that contribute to a master’s thesis proposal worthy of approval. In this blog, we will discuss the process of writing your master’s thesis proposal and give you tips for making your proposal strong. Stay tuned!

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How to decide the goals for your master's thesis.

If you are pursuing a master’s or a PhD , you will be undertaking a major research paper or a thesis. Thus, writing a thesis proposal becomes inevitable. Your major objective for pursuing a master’s degree is to improve your knowledge in your field of study. When you start your degree, you delve deeper into different concepts in your discipline and try to search for answers to all kinds of questions. If you come across a question that no one can answer, you can select that question as your research thesis topic.

A master's thesis proposal will have multiple sections depending on your decided layout. These sections will continuously support your argument and try to convince the reader of your core argument. The structure will also help you arrange the various parts of the paper to have a greater impact on the readers. A paper should always begin with you giving a brief summary of the topic and how you have come across it. The introduction is particularly important because it will give the readers a brief idea about the topic of discussion and win their interest in the matter.

After the summary has been given, slowly you need to progress into the body of the thesis proposal which would explain your argument, research methodology, literary texts that have a relation to the topic, and the conclusion of your study. It would be similar to an essay or a literary review consisting of 3 or 4 parts. The bibliography will be placed at the end of the paper so that people can cross-check your sources.

Let's take a look at the sections most master's thesis proposals should cover. Please note that each university has its own guidelines for how to structure and what to include in a master’s thesis proposal. The outline we provide below is general, so please make sure to follow the exact guidelines provided by your school:

Restate your primary argument and give us a glimpse of what you will include in the main master\u2019s thesis. Leave the reader wanting more. Your research proposal should talk about what research chapters you are trying to undertake in your final thesis. You can also mention the proposed time in which you will complete these chapters.  ","label":"Conclusion and proposed chapters","title":"Conclusion and proposed chapters"}]" code="tab1" template="BlogArticle">

A thesis proposal needs to be convincing enough to get approval. If the information is not enough to satisfy the evaluation committee, it would require revision. Hence, you need to select and follow the right methodology to make your argument convincing. When a research proposal is presented, the reader will determine the validity of your argument by judging the strength of your evidence and conclusions. Therefore, even writige:ng a proposal will require extensive research on your part. You should start writing your thesis proposal by working through the following steps.

Interested in a summary of the points covered below? Check out this infographic:

Exploring your topic in detail

You need to delve deeper into your chosen topic to see if your idea is original. In the process of this exploration, you will find tons of materials that will be supportive of your argument. When choosing your research topic and the problem you want to explore, you should always consider your primary research interest (yes, the one which you had mentioned in your research interest statement during grad school applications) for a better master’s thesis. You have a high probability of performing better in an area that you have always liked as compared to any other research area or topic.

Reviewing the literature

You have to include all the sources from where you have formed your argument and mention them in the thesis proposal. If you neglect to mention important source texts, the reader may consider it to be plagiarism. Furthermore, you want to keep track of all your research because it will be easier to provide references if you know the exact source of each piece of information.

Finding opposing arguments for your study

You should also mention any texts that would counter your argument and try to disprove their claims in the thesis. Make sure to use evidence if you try to disprove the counterarguments you face.

Emphasizing the importance of your research

At the end of the thesis proposal, you need to convince the reader why your proposal is important to your chosen field of study, which would ultimately help you in getting your topic approved. Thus, it is essential to outline the importance of your research thoroughly.

Drafting your proposal

After doing proper research, you should go ahead and draft your proposal. Remember you will not get it right in just one draft, it will take at least 50 attempts to come up with a satisfactory proposal. You should proofread your draft several times and even have a fellow student review it for you before sending it further to your research supervisor.

Getting your proposal evaluated by your supervisor

After you have written sufficient drafts, you need to get your proposal evaluated by your research supervisor. This is necessary to meet the graduate research requirements. It will ensure the clarity and correctness of your proposal. For your supervisor to evaluate your proposal, you should complete the research methodology part along with sufficient proposed work.

Since your supervisor will play a crucial role in your master's research thesis, you must choose a supervisor who can be your ultimate guide in writing your master's thesis. They will be your partner and support system during your study and will help you in eliminating obstacles to achieving your goal.

Choosing the ideal supervisor is a pretty daunting task. Here’s how you can go about the process:

You should approach your professor with an open mind and discuss the potential goals of your research. You should hear what they think and then if you both mutually agree, you can choose them as your supervisor for your master\u2019s thesis. "}]">

Length of a Master’s Thesis Proposal

The length of a master’s thesis proposal differs from university to university and depends on the discipline of research as well. Usually, you have to include all the above-mentioned sections, and the length is around 8 pages and can go up to 12-15 pages for subjects such as the liberal arts. Universities might also define the number of words in the guidelines for your master’s thesis proposal and you have to adhere to that word limit.

Are you debating between pursuing a Masters or a PhD? This video has details that can help you decide which is best for you:

How to Format a Research Thesis Proposal Correctly?

Now that you know how to write a thesis proposal, you must make it presentable. Although your school might give your specific instructions, you can keep in mind some of the general advice:

• You can use some basic font like Times New Roman and keep the font size to 10 or 12 points.
• The left margin should be 1.5 inches and all other margins should be 1 inch each.
• You should follow double-spacing for your content.
• The first line of paragraphs should be indented 0.5 inches and the paragraphs should be left or center aligned.

Tips to Write a Strong Master's Thesis Proposal

When you are writing your master’s thesis proposal, you should keep these tips in mind to write an excellent master’s thesis proposal with all the correct elements to get approval from the evaluating committee:

Select your research objectives wisely

You should be clear on what you wish to learn from your research. Your learning objectives should stem from your research interests. If you are unsure, refer to your grad school career goals statement to review what you wanted out of grad school in the first place. Then, choose your objectives around it.

Write a clear title

The title of your research proposal should be concise and written in a language that can be understood easily by others. The title should be able to give the reader an idea of your intended research and should be interesting.

Jot down your thoughts, arguments, and evidence

You should always start with a rough outline of your arguments because you will not miss any point in this way. Brainstorm what you want to include in the proposal and then expand those points to complete your proposal. You can decide the major headings with the help of the guidelines provided to you.

Focus on the feasibility and importance

You should consider whether your research is feasible with the available resources. Additionally, your proposal should clearly convey the significance of your research in your field.

Use simple language

Since the evaluation committee can have researchers from different subject areas, it is best to write your proposal in a simple language that is understandable by all.

Stick to the guidelines

Your university will be providing the guidelines for writing your research proposal. You should adhere to those guidelines strictly since your proposal will be primarily evaluated on the basis of those.

Have an impactful opening section

It is a no-brainer that the opening statement of your proposal should be powerful enough to grasp the attention of the readers and get them interested in your research topic. You should be able to convey your interest and enthusiasm in the introductory section.

Peer review prior to submission

Apart from working with your research supervisor, it is essential that you ask some classmates and friends to review your proposal. The comments and suggestions that they give will be valuable in helping you to make the language of your proposal clearer.

You have worked hard to get into grad school and even harder on searching your research topic. Thus, you must be careful while building your thesis proposal so that you have maximum chances of acceptance.

If you're curious how your graduate school education will differ from your undergraduate education, take a look at this video so you know what to expect:

Writing the perfect research proposal might be challenging, but keeping to the basics might make your task easier. In a nutshell, you need to be thorough in your study question. You should conduct sufficient research to gather all relevant materials required to support your argument. After collecting all data, make sure to present it systematically to give a clearer understanding and convince the evaluators to approve your proposal. Lastly, remember to submit your proposal well within the deadline set by your university. Your performance at grad school is essential, especially if you need a graduate degree to gain admission to med school and your thesis contributes to that performance. Thus, start with a suitable research problem, draft a strong proposal, and then begin with your thesis after your proposal is approved.

In your master’s thesis proposal, you should include your research topic and the problem statement being addressed in your research, along with a proposed solution. The proposal should explain the importance and limitations of your research.

The length of a master’s thesis proposal is outlined by the university in the instructions for preparing your master’s thesis proposal.

The time taken to write a master’s thesis proposal depends upon the study which you are undertaking and your discipline of research. It will take a minimum time of three months. The ideal time can be around six months. 

You should begin your master’s thesis proposal by writing an introduction to your research topic. You should state your topic clearly and provide some background. Keep notes and rough drafts of your proposal so you can always refer to them when you write the first real draft.

The basic sections that your master’s thesis proposal should cover are the problem statement, research methodology, proposed activities, importance, and the limitations of your research.

A master’s thesis proposal which clearly defines the problem in a straightforward and explains the research methodology in simple words is considered a good thesis proposal.

You can use any classic font for your master’s thesis proposal such as Times New Roman. If you are recommended a specific font in the proposal guidelines by your institution, it would be advisable to stick to that.

The ideal font size for your master’s thesis proposal will be 10 or 12 points.

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EY’s Master Thesis Mentoring Program spans from the beginning of your thesis process to the ending of your thesis defense. We pair you with an experienced consultant who has industry knowledge and expertise within your chosen research field.

You decide if you want to write your master thesis in collaboration with a case company or keep it purely theoretical. However, if you wish to collaborate with a case company, we expect you to establish contacts in the company yourself.

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• Access to relevant insights, methodologies, and a large network of experts within your research field.
• Appointment of an associated mentor that will challenge your thought process and provide insights to your problems and solutions.
• Courses in advancing your skills and techniques — from planning your thesis to presenting your findings concisely.

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The weakest link How to convert employees from security threats to security champions?

Cyber and digital transformation Cybersecurity as prerequisite for a thriving business

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People analytics

• How can Machine Learning predict employee burnout using data?
• What metrics can predict team performance?
• In what ways can employee communication optimization be personalized using data driven approaches.
• Exploring the opportunity to analyze organizational networks with psychometric network analysis to maximize interpret ability, action ability and impact.
• How can data-driven approaches be utilized to estimate attrition rates in companies/engagements?

Data and Sustainability – (potential topics)

• How do industries compare in terms of scope 3 emissions? An analysis of carbon footprint benchmarking.
• How does ESG data integration improve scope 3 emissions management?
• What strategies ensure robust ESG data quality throughout the value chain?
• Forecasting oil prices in European energy markets using state-of-the-art machine learning.
• Predict catastrophic events such as wild firesand severe flooding using geospatial data.
• Benchmarking machine learning methods for predictive maintenance of wind turbines.

Data strategy – (potential topics)

• What are the implementation strategies and benefits of leveraging Generative AI in organizations?
• How can a company assess the cost/benefit of developing and deploying a machine learning model.
• What methods can effectively extract metadata from Contracts? What potential outcome can AI managed contract repositories result in.
• Cost/Benefit of hyper parameter tuning of deep neural networks and traditional Machine Learning methods.

Deep learning and Generative AI

• How do LLM models and their political association pair with Danish political parties.
• What is the difference of computational efficiency between variational autoencoders vs. general adversarial networks on computer vision and text generation tasks.
• State-of-the art reinforcement learning in smart grids and quantified benefits to reducing carbon footprint.
• Can convolutional neural networks automate the classification of professional portraits?

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Technology as the driver for transformation in the financial sector

• How does technology interplay with other forces as a driver for transformation in the financial sector, i.e., regulatory change, political agenda, or global events (COVID or similar)

Correlation between technological maturity, market share and profitability

• Market maturity of UK vs. Nordics
• Digital banking shift: larger incumbents are closing branches, while smaller incumbents still have focus on physical banking"

Technology as the driver for revolution in the payments industry

• Technology driving a revolution in the payments industry – Denmark vs. other geographies (Maturity case-study)"

How does the incumbents deal with the challenges posed by adopting new technology?

• How does incumbents deal with the challenges posed by adopting new technology; Organizational reluctance to accept change, human resilience, driving implementations that makes SMEs obsolete"

What role does regulation play in technological transformation of the financial sector?

• Customer protection
• Transaction monitoring/transparency
• Payments/VAT-anti-fraud/transparency
• What are the driving considerations behind the acceleration from the EU

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• Investigate how effective collaboration between a consulting firm and an organization impacts project success.
• Analyze the challenges and benefits of cross-functional collaboration in project management.
• Explore strategies for fostering collaboration among diverse teams in consulting projects.

Change Management and Implementation

• Analyze the role of consulting firms in driving organizational change through project implementation.
• Explore change management methodologies and their application in consulting projects.
• Investigate how consulting firms facilitate the adoption of new processes, systems, or strategies within client organizations.

Technology and Digital Transformation

• Analyze how consulting firms drive digital transformation initiatives in collaboration with client organizations.
• Investigate the role of emerging technologies (e.g., AI, blockchain) in enhancing collaborative project and program management.
• Explore the challenges and opportunities associated with integrating technology into consulting projects.

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You are eligible to participate in EY’s Master Thesis Mentoring Program if you are enrolled in a master program and plan to write your master within the listed topics in Spring 2024.

At EY, we acknowledge that a diverse team’s performance accelerates when various competencies are combined. The same goes for educational backgrounds. Therefore, we welcome students from all Danish universities — irrespective of whether you have a background in technology, cybersecurity, economics, engineering, communication, data analytics or something completely different.

The application deadline is 29 October 2023.

The program will officially start at the beginning of 2024. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we are continuously working with candidate selection. You can choose one topic or a combination of topics from the list in the drop-down menu. When applying, please send your CV and application (maximum one page) answering the following three questions:

Question 1 : Which topic /or combination of topics have you chosen and why have you chosen this topic field. Tell us more about how you intend to examine the topic field.

Question 2 : What are your career aspirations once you finalize your master’s degree? Why is consultancy and EY interesting to you?

Question 3 : Tell us why we should choose you/your group for the thesis program.

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If you have any questions or need more information, please do not hesitate to contact [email protected] or [email protected].

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50+ Management Research Topic Ideas To Fast-Track Your Project

Finding and choosing a strong research topic is the critical first step when it comes to crafting a high-quality dissertation, thesis or research project. If you’ve landed on this post, chances are you’re looking for a business/management-related research topic , but aren’t sure where to start. Here, we’ll explore a variety of  research ideas and topic thought-starters for management-related research degrees (MBAs/DBAs, etc.). These research topics span management strategy, HR, finance, operations, international business and leadership.

NB – This is just the start…

The topic ideation and evaluation process has multiple steps . In this post, we’ll kickstart the process by sharing some research topic ideas within the management domain. This is the starting point, but to develop a well-defined research topic, you’ll need to identify a clear and convincing research gap , along with a well-justified plan of action to fill that gap.

If you’re new to the oftentimes perplexing world of research, or if this is your first time undertaking a formal academic research project, be sure to check out our free dissertation mini-course. In it, we cover the process of writing a dissertation or thesis from start to end. Be sure to also sign up for our free webinar that explores how to find a high-quality research topic. 

Overview: Business Research Topics

• Business /management strategy
• Human resources (HR) and industrial psychology
• Finance and accounting
• Operations management
• International business
• Actual business dissertations & theses

Strategy-Related Research Topics

• An analysis of the impact of digital transformation on business strategy in consulting firms
• The role of innovation in transportation practices for creating a competitive advantage within the agricultural sector
• Exploring the effect of globalisation on strategic decision-making practices for multinational Fashion brands.
• An evaluation of corporate social responsibility in shaping business strategy, a case study of power utilities in Nigeria
• Analysing the relationship between corporate culture and business strategy in the new digital era, exploring the role of remote working.
• Assessing the impact of sustainability practices on business strategy and performance in the motor vehicle manufacturing industry
• An analysis of the effect of social media on strategic partnerships and alliances development in the insurance industry
• Exploring the role of data-driven decision-making in business strategy developments following supply-chain disruptions in the agricultural sector
• Developing a conceptual framework for assessing the influence of market orientation on business strategy and performance in the video game publishing industry
• A review of strategic cost management best practices in the healthcare sector of Indonesia
• Identification of key strategic considerations required for the effective implementation of Industry 4.0 to develop a circular economy
• Reviewing how Globalisation has affected business model innovation strategies in the education sector
• A comparison of merger and acquisition strategies’ effects on novel product development in the Pharmaceutical industry
• An analysis of market strategy performance during recessions, a retrospective review of the luxury goods market in the US
• Comparing the performance of digital stakeholder engagement strategies and their contribution towards meeting SDGs in the mining sector

Topics & Ideas: Human Resources (HR)

• Exploring the impact of digital employee engagement practices on organizational performance in SMEs
• The role of diversity and inclusion in the workplace
• An evaluation of remote employee training and development programs efficacy in the e-commerce sector
• Comparing the effect of flexible work arrangements on employee satisfaction and productivity across generational divides
• Assessing the relationship between gender-focused employee empowerment programs and job satisfaction in the UAE
• A review of the impact of technology and digitisation on human resource management practices in the construction industry
• An analysis of the role of human resource management in talent acquisition and retention in response to globalisation and crisis, a case study of the South African power utility
• The influence of leadership style on remote working employee motivation and performance in the education sector.
• A comparison of performance appraisal systems for managing employee performance in the luxury retail fashion industry
• An examination of the relationship between work-life balance and job satisfaction in blue-collar workplaces, A systematic review
• Exploring HR personnel’s experiences managing digital workplace bullying in multinational corporations
• Assessing the success of HR team integration following merger and acquisition on employee engagement and performance
• Exploring HR green practices and their effects on retention of millennial talent in the fintech industry
• Assessing the impact of human resources analytics in successfully navigating digital transformation within the healthcare sector
• Exploring the role of HR staff in the development and maintenance of ethical business practices in fintech SMEs
• An analysis of employee perceptions of current HRM practices in a fully remote IT workspace

Topics & Ideas: Finance & Accounting

• An analysis of the effect of employee financial literacy on decision-making in manufacturing start-ups in Ghana
• Assessing the impact of corporate green innovation on financial performance in listed companies in Estonia
• Assessing the effect of corporate governance on financial performance in the mining industry in Papua New Guinea
• An evaluation of financial risk management practices in the construction industry of Saudi Arabia
• Exploring the role of leadership financial literacy in the transition from start-up to scale-up in the retail e-commerce industry.
• A review of influential macroeconomic factors on the adoption of cryptocurrencies as legal tender
• An examination of the use of financial derivatives in risk management
• Exploring the impact of the cryptocurrency disruption on stock trading practices in the EU
• An analysis of the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance in academic publishing houses
• A comparison of financial ratios performance in evaluating E-commerce startups in South Korea.
• An evaluation of the role of government policies in facilitating manufacturing companies’ successful transitioning from start-up to scale-ups in Denmark
• Assessing the financial value associated with industry 4.0 transitions in the Indian pharmaceutical industry
• Exploring the role of effective e-leadership on financial performance in the Nigerian fintech industry
• A review of digital disruptions in CRM practices and their associated financial impact on listed companies during the Covid-19 pandemic
• Exploring the importance of Sharia-based business practices on SME financial performance in multicultural countries

Ideas: Operations Management

• An assessment of the impact of blockchain technology on operations management practices in the transport industry of Estonia
• An evaluation of supply chain disruption management strategies and their impact on business performance in Lithuania
• Exploring the role of lean manufacturing in the automotive industry of Malaysia and its effects on improving operational efficiency
• A critical review of optimal operations management strategies in luxury goods manufacturing for ensuring supply chain resilience
• Exploring the role of globalization on Supply chain diversification, a pre/post analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic
• An analysis of the relationship between quality management and customer satisfaction in subscription-based business models
• Assessing the cost of sustainable sourcing practices on operations management and supply chain resilience in the Cocao industry.
• An examination of the adoption of behavioural predictive analytics in operations management practices, a case study of the
• Italian automotive industry
• Exploring the effect of operational complexity on business performance following digital transformation
• An evaluation of barriers to the implementation of agile methods in project management within governmental institutions
• Assessing how the relationship between operational processes and business strategy change as companies transition from start-ups to scale-ups
• Exploring the relationship between operational management and innovative business models, lessons from the fintech industry
• A review of best practices for operations management facilitating the transition towards a circular economy in the fast food industry
• Exploring the viability of lean manufacturing practices in Vietnam’s plastics industry
• Assessing engagement in cybersecurity considerations associated with operations management practices in industry 4.0 manufacturing

Topics & Ideas: International Business

• The impact of cultural differences in communication on international business relationships
• An evaluation of the role of government import and export policies in shaping international business practices
• The effect of global shipping conditions on international business strategies
• An analysis of the challenges of managing multinational corporations: branch management
• The influence of social media marketing on international business operations
• The role of international trade agreements on business activities in developing countries
• An examination of the impact of currency fluctuations on international business and cost competitiveness
• The relationship between international business and sustainable development: perspectives and benefits
• An evaluation of the challenges and opportunities of doing business in emerging markets such as the renewable energy industry
• An analysis of the role of internationalisation via strategic alliances in international business
• The impact of cross-cultural management on international business performance
• The effect of political instability on international business operations: A case study of Russia
• An analysis of the role of intellectual property rights in an international technology company’s business strategies
• The relationship between corporate social responsibility and international business strategy: a comparative study of different industries
• The impact of technology on international business in the fashion industry

Topics & Ideas: Leadership

• A comparative study of the impact of different leadership styles on organizational performance
• An evaluation of transformational leadership in today’s non-profit organizations
• The role of emotional intelligence in effective leadership and productivity
• An analysis of the relationship between leadership style and employee motivation
• The influence of diversity and inclusion on leadership practices in South Africa
• The impact of Artificial Intelligence technology on leadership in the digital age
• An examination of the challenges of leadership in a rapidly changing business environment: examples from the finance industry
• The relationship between leadership and corporate culture and job satisfaction
• An evaluation of the role of transformational leadership in strategic decision-making
• The use of leadership development programs in enhancing leadership effectiveness in multinational organisations
• The impact of ethical leadership on organizational trust and reputation: an empirical study
• An analysis of the relationship between various leadership styles and employee well-being in healthcare organizations
• The role of leadership in promoting good work-life balance and job satisfaction in the age of remote work
• The influence of leadership on knowledge sharing and innovation in the technology industry
• An investigation of the impact of cultural intelligence on cross-cultural leadership effectiveness in global organizations

Business/Management Dissertation & Theses

While the ideas we’ve presented above are a decent starting point for finding a business-related research topic, they are fairly generic and non-specific. So, it helps to look at actual dissertations and theses to see how this all comes together.

Below, we’ve included a selection of research projects from various management-related degree programs (e.g., MBAs, DBAs, etc.) to help refine your thinking. These are actual dissertations and theses, written as part of Master’s and PhD-level programs, so they can provide some useful insight as to what a research topic looks like in practice.

• Sustaining Microbreweries Beyond 5 Years (Yanez, 2022)
• Perceived Stakeholder and Stockholder Views: A Comparison Among Accounting Students, Non-Accounting Business Students And Non-Business Students (Shajan, 2020)
• Attitudes Toward Corporate Social Responsibility and the New Ecological Paradigm among Business Students in Southern California (Barullas, 2020)
• Entrepreneurial opportunity alertness in small business: a narrative research study exploring established small business founders’ experience with opportunity alertness in an evolving economic landscape in the Southeastern United States (Hughes, 2019)
• Work-Integrated Learning in Closing Skills Gap in Public Procurement: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study (Culver, 2021)
• Analyzing the Drivers and Barriers to Green Business Practices for Small and Medium Enterprises in Ohio (Purwandani, 2020)
• The Role of Executive Business Travel in a Virtual World (Gale, 2022)
• Outsourcing Security and International Corporate Responsibility: A Critical Analysis of Private Military Companies (PMCs) and Human Rights Violations (Hawkins, 2022)
• Lean-excellence business management for small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in Kurdistan region of Iraq (Mohammad, 2021)
• Science Data Sharing: Applying a Disruptive Technology Platform Business Model (Edwards, 2022)
• Impact of Hurricanes on Small Construction Business and Their Recovery (Sahu, 2022)

Looking at these titles, you can probably pick up that the research topics here are quite specific and narrowly-focused , compared to the generic ones presented earlier. This is an important thing to keep in mind as you develop your own research topic. That is to say, to create a top-notch research topic, you must be precise and target a specific context with specific variables of interest . In other words, you need to identify a clear, well-justified research gap.

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The end of your studies and the beginning of your zeb career.  Do you want your thesis to create real added value or to collect dust on your bookshelf? Then write your Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis with us. Gain deep insights into real-life situations and benefit from our expertise. You can also lay the foundation for your career at zeb. You will get to know the company, start networking with your future colleagues and find out whether we make a good match.

What we offer

At the beginning it is all about finding the topic for your Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis. You can make your own suggestions or choose a zeb topic. We advise you and find solutions for your work so that it meets the academic standards and at the same time has practical relevance. You can write your thesis in German or English.   A zeb expert will support you as a coach with expertise in your topic, providing feedback to help you achieve your full potential. You will meet at the beginning of your project and talk about all relevant aspects of the cooperation. Your supervisor will accompany you for the entire duration of writing your thesis. You can agree individually on how often you will meet in person or speak over the phone.   We will also provide you with the best possible support and the necessary data or technology. In our offices you will always find a workstation where you can work in peace, in case you start to develop cabin fever at home.  Would you like to start your career in consulting at zeb after successfully completing your thesis? No problem—let’s talk about it.

If you complete your thesis with a grade of 2.4 or better, we will pay you a bonus as a thank you: EUR 500 for Bachelor’s theses, EUR 1,000 for Master’s theses. You are not entitled to paid leave during the program.

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We currently offer the thesis program in Germany and Austria. 

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We are looking for people with very good results in their studies, who are excellent team players with an analytical mind, and who inspire others through their actions. If, like us, you are enthusiastic about the financial services industry, we should get to know each other.  

• You are studying for a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree and have very good grades. 
• First practical experience through internships or vocational training in consulting, in the financial sector or with a tech company. 
• You are curious, reliable and team-oriented. 
• You enjoy questioning the status quo as a team. 
• You speak German and English fluently. 
• You must be enrolled.
• We currently offer our thesis program in Germany and Austria. 
• The beginning and end of the program can be arranged individually. 
• You can write from any location.

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Agile Banking: How Can Agility Improve the Status Quo of Regional Banks?

Analysis of Business Models of Banks, Fintechs and Bigtechs in credit lending - opportunities for cooperation

Medium-term capital planning, risk-bearing capacity, risk and performance measurement

Success factors of product-related cooperations between fintechs and banks

AI as a cure-all: potential benefits for financial services providers based on selected technologies

Development of a procedure for using robotic process automation to digitalize the lending process of German banks

Opportunities and risks of the distributed ledger technology with a focus on the role of the financial sector intermediary 

Suitability of cloud solutions in financial services companies in consideration of data protection and compliance

The digital bank or insurance company: assessing the maturity level and main development directions

Use of external data sources to build a 360-degree customer view in the corporate customer segment

Accounting of crypto-assets

Corporate Venturing Activities as a Source of External Knowledge: Analysis of Start-Up/Corporate Relationship and Knowledge Transfern Mechanisms

ESG disclosure in credit institutions

Outsourcing of regulatory tasks

Systemic risks in the financial sector: a comparison between the banking and insurance sectors

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PA Master thesis mentoring programme

Are you writing your master thesis this spring? Would you like competent feedback and mentoring from a team of skilled management consultants?

PA Consulting Group offers a mentoring programme for bright students who would like guidance from a team of consultants that have one or more professional capabilities and/or deep industry knowledge. You can apply as an individual or as a group. The only thing needed is to have an exciting idea for your master thesis and a wish for being challenged to create the best result.

The programme runs throughout the Spring semester with a couple of events to support your thesis process besides the meetings with your mentors. We will aim to provide a mentor team consisting of a junior and a senior consultant. This ensures the best split between deep knowledge/capabilities and relatively recent experience with writing a master thesis project.

The mentors’ role will not substitute your formal supervisor, instead they will provide you with insights from ‘real life’, guide you in managing your project process and help you apply theoretical frameworks in a pragmatic manner. In addition to mentoring, you will also be introduced to some of PA’s professional training materials and methodologies that can help improve your structure and presentation skills.

The number and frequency of meetings between mentors and mentees are decided individually to ensure the best fit with each thesis process.

Qualifications

What pa consulting offers to you.

• Access to leading experts with deep industry insights and a large network of specialised consultants.
• Mentoring and guidance in your specific topic as well as guidance in presentation techniques and project management.
• An insight into how consultants work and how to apply tools and methods to real life cases.

What we expect from you

• You are enrolled in a master’s programme and plan to write your thesis regarding a topic that addresses one or several of PA’s capabilities or the industries where we operate.
• You are interested in a career as a consultant.
• You meet agreed deadlines and have a proactive spirit.
• You already have ideas for your thesis project to discuss with a mentor.
• You want to participate in the planned activities (2-3 events) in relation to the programme.

Do not wait, apply now (CV, application, and certificates). Application deadline is 1 February 2023 .

Additional information

We are reviewing applications on an ongoing basis, so don’t wait for the deadline – apply for the programme already today.

If you have any questions, please contact our talent attraction team on e-mail [email protected] .

We have a broad set of mentors that will be matched with you based on your application. Below you can find the capabilities and industries that we are able to mentor you in.

Capabilities in Denmark

• Growth strategy
• Operating model
• Architecture
• Delivery & Change
• Operations & Improvement
• IT Strategy, Sourcing & Corporate services
• Digital Trust & Cyber Security

Industries in Denmark

• Financial Services
• Public Services
• Life Sciences
• Consumer and Manufacturing

We’re an innovation and transformation consultancy that believes in the power of ingenuity to build a positive-human future in a technology-driven world. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking with breakthrough-technologies to progress further, faster.

With a global network of FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 clients, we’ll offer you unrivalled opportunities for growth and the freedom to excel. Combining strategies, technologies and innovation, we turn complexity to opportunity and deliver enduring results, enabling you to build a lasting career.

Inclusion and diversity

We believe that diversity makes us a stronger firm and look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skillsets. This diversity stimulates a rich, creative environment – one in which our people develop, and our clients enjoy enduring results.

We’re committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA’s goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.

Feedback from participants in the Master Thesis Mentoring Programme

It was an excellent way into PA Consulting to join their Master Thesis Programme. It was a good opportunity to get to know several PA consultants and it gave unique insights into the type of projects they help clients with. The programme provides a valuable partner for discussion with excellent input to the thesis seen from practitioners points of view. Highly recommendable.”

The mentoring programme allowed us to get input from industry experts within our research area, and provided a special environment for knowledge sharing with other master thesis students.”

Any questions?

Please contact [email protected] .

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15 months (Full time)

Entry Level:

Bachelor degree (minimum of 180 ECTS credits)

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Master of Science (MSc) Digital Project Management & Consulting Specialisation Lead strategic initiatives in a global and digital environment.

The specialisation in digital project management & consulting is part of the master degree (deamie)*.

In the era of hybrid working and virtual teams, companies around the world are on the lookout for talented graduates, often trained as consulting strategists or global project managers, to lead strategic initiatives in a challenging, constantly changing and unusuallycompetitive global working environment. The MSc in Digital Project Management & Consulting equips students with the required tools for a successful career in a competitive, global and largely reconfigured workplace in which digital technologies play a central role.

Our teaching philosophy, “learning-by-doing”, combines a management curriculum and an international seminar with real business cases, live case studies and the Digital Consulting Project (DCP). This combination enhances students’ development experience through a hands-on approach with our partner companies. This international specialisation comprises three terms of intensive courses at the Madrid and Berlin campuses and one term of professional experience to complete the master thesis and a company internship. The MSc is designed to be the first step toward a successful and international professional management career. 

Key aspects of the MSc

• A university-level specialisation leading to an official Master degree in France, Diplôme d’Etudes Avancé en Management International des Entreprises (DEAMIE), and an ESCP diploma, the MSc in Digital Project Management & Consulting
• A multicampus programme that brings together leading professional perspectives and intercultural experiences
• An International Seminar
• A “learning by doing” approach focused on your professional skills, network and international career development 
• A personalised experience involving research-oriented faculty, practitioner–academics, and cross-disciplinary professionals

Class Profile 2023

• Business & Administration: 63%
• Finance & Economy: 16%
• Science Engineering: 13%
• Humanity & Arts: 8%

nationalities

25 years old

average age

Learning by doing

Our teaching principle combines a management curriculum and a International Seminar with real business cases, live case studies and the Digital International Consulting Project (DCP). This combination enhances students’ development experience through a hands-on approach with our partner companies.

Scientific Director

Petros CHAMAKIOTIS

Associate Professor in Department of Management

PhD in Management (Information Systems) from the University of Bath Research areas:  Connectivity, digital health, digital platforms, hybrid working, online collaboration, online communities, virtual teams

Executive Director

Javier BARBERO

Adjunct Professor

MSc in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) Research areas:  Data Science, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Dron Operations and Proptech

About the Master Degree (DEAMIE)*

« Diplôme d'Études Avancées en Management International des Entreprises » (DEAMIE) Joining this full-time Master of Science corresponds to the determination to pursue a defined professional project and gives young graduates and young executives a combination of high value skills sought by recruiters. This programme provides academic expertise and presentation of the best professional practices. Our goal is to train experts who will be rapidly able to progress in a globalised world. Students will obtain 1 degree: the French Master degree (DEAMIE) and 1 diploma: MSc in Digital Project Management & Consulting. 

* This is a university level specialisation leading to an official degree in France.

Online MSc Admissions Insight: Alumni, Student and Admission Team Panel

Monday, 11 december 4 pm - 5 pm (cet).

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2023 Class profile

38 participants 18 nationalities

71% female 29% male Average age: 25

43.5% Council 13% IT & Digital 4,3% Hospitality

4,3% E-commerce 34,8 Others

Within the specialisation, you can enroll for a training course and exam to obtain either Project Manager Professional certification (PMP ® ) or the Certificate Associate in Project Management (CAPM ® ) awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Master of Science (MSc) Digital Project Management & Consulting Specialisation Curriculum

Our programme targets your expertise.

The specialisation makes significant use of inductive teaching methods and interactive activities (project simulations, case studies, business plan development, etc.). This guarantees the skills acquisition needed to work in multidisciplinary, international and multicultural teams. The MSc offers you the option to acquire a specialisation in Project Management or in Business Consulting .

This full-time program takes place over 9 months (15 months including internship and thesis) and is divided into four terms. You have to be proficient in English to follow these courses .

NOTE: ESCP is committed to delivering the curriculum as is, unless external circumstances (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) are in the way, in which case(s) we will develop alternatives to deliver the programmes’s learning objectives.  

A full-time programme.

The programme begins in October and is organised as follow:

Core Courses - Term 1 Jul-Sep: Candidates with < 240 ECTS previous degree (or equivalent)

These six modules are compulsory only for candidates with less than 240ects (or equivalent).

They run in an online format between July and September prior to the campus terms. Candidates may be exempted from attending these modules based on their previous working experience (3 years required). See Admission Tab for more information.

Core Management

• Economics                                                        
• Accounting & Finance
• Statistics for Management

Course Modules - Terms 2 & 3 Oct-Dec: Madrid campus| Jan- June : Madrid & Berlin campus

The courses address both theory and real-life applications with a practical approach to project management. They are taught from October to June by ESCP Faculty and successful professionals.

Students will also take a compulsory seminar on Ethics, Enviromental, Social & Corporate Governance.

Term 2 Oct-Dec – Madrid

Core courses.

• Project Management in Practice
• Leading Virtual Projects
• Consulting Methods
• Digital Business Transformation

Management & Functional Areas

• Financial Statement Analysis
• Organisational Design

Case Studies & Workshops

• Live Case Study: Telecom Company

Skills Development

• Data Analytics
• Consulting: The Skills You Need to Get Hired

Project Management Track

• Human Resource Management
• Project Management Tools

Consulting Track

• Negotiation
• Quantitative and Analytical Methods

Term 3 Jan-June – Madrid, Online & Berlin

• Sustainability Management
• Research Methodology Seminar
• Digital Portfolio Management
• Agile Project Management
• Case Studies in International Management
• Competing in the Era of Digital Platforms

Management and Functional Areas

• Robots and AI in Business
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Master Thesis Lab

Case Studies and Workshops

• Digital Consulting Project
• Digital Talks
• Project Management Business Game
• Applied AI Workshop
• Live Case Study: Blockchain
• International Study Seminar
• Live Case Study: Project Management
• Live Case Study: Consulting Firm
• Advanced Finance for Project Management
• CAPM or PMP Certification by PMI
• Machine Learning
• Creativity & Design Thinking

Berlin (June)

• Supply Chain Management & Industry 4.0
• Digital Entrepreneurship & Business Planning
• introduction to Data Science

Term 4 Jul-Dec - All over the World professionalisation

• Professional Experience
• Master Thesis

International Seminar: Term 3 Mar-Apr: Meet and network with professionals in the field

The aim of the international seminar is to enable you to immerse yourself in a new economic, to study in our academic partner institutions, to strengthen your capacity to adapt to different contexts, to attend lectures and visit companies. The international seminar is a great opportunity for you to get in contact with top notch-companies in the area like:

• Google (and Youtube)
• Electronic Arts
• The Great Place to Work
• DDM Advertising Agency
• Gyro Communication Agency
• Organge FAB

"Even though the International Seminar usually takes place in Silicon Valley , ESCP reserves the right to change the destination due to force majeure reasons  or for an improvement in the academic results ensuring standards in quality and attractiveness as well”.

The possible obtaining of the necessary permits to obtain the corresponding visa for the country of destination of the International Seminar will be the sole responsibility of the student, and a negative result will not give rise to any claim against ESCP. Obtaining and/or arranging for such permits shall be at the student's own risk.

Profesionnal Mission - Term 4 Jul-Dec: A professional experience of 4 months minimum anywhere in the world

From mid-April to end December, you must complete an in-company internship of at least 4 months (though often lasting for 7-8 months). ESCP assists you in locating internship opportunities and networking with companies. The internship is an opportunity for practical application of the theoretical concepts learned from courses, with an eye to establishing a career. In many cases, corporate employers consider the internship as a trial period for a permanent position.  

The Corporate Relations Department

The Company Relations Department is dedicated to gather placement offers from many companies. The department also organises a series of fairs involving firms, giving you many opportunities to make contact.

• Know more about the Company Relations Department

Master Thesis - Term 4 Jul-Dec: Writing and defending a Master Thesis

The thesis is an applied research project in consultation with an academic advisor based on a professionally-oriented topic. It is a chance for you to synthesise learned material through analysis of a particular corporate issue by using clear, detailed argumentation. The thesis marks the culmination of the degree and is orally presented to a committee at the end of the programme. It represents 17 of the total of 120 ECTS credits earned over the year.

During this time, students will also participate in a mandatory Research Seminar held by an ESCP professor. This seminar represents 3 ECTS credits of the total 120 earned over this academic year. 

Here are a few examples of thesis topics:

• “Mergers & acquisitions in B2B: Key success factors in the integration phase”
• “Fair trade: a French-US comparison of sustainable growth of two large organisations: Artisans du Monde and Ten Thousand Villagers”

Learn The Spanish Language Spanish immersion course

As an international business school, ESCP Madrid campus welcomes students from all over the world and invites them to get familiarized with our Spanish culture by learning Spanish before starting the MSc programme.

We believe that the more Spanish the students speak, the easier they will find it to integrate into Spanish society and the more they will get out of their stay in Madrid. So, unless the students are a native or advanced Spanish speaker, we strongly recommend that they take this opportunity to work on their Spanish before they start the Master programme.

Students do not need to speak Spanish to enrol in the MSc programme as all courses are offered in English.However, some knowledge of Spanish can be useful to enjoy the full ESCP learning experience, become professionally bicultural and optimize networking with Spanish and Latin America students and alumni. This is why ESCP Madrid campus offers a Spanish Immersion course which is included in the tuition fee .

Testimonial

Marta JUNCO Auchan Retail España Class of 2016

“ I studied the MSc in Digital Project Management & Consulting, and, even though I chose to go on with the Project Management track, the whole master taught me how to think in a broader way, tackling every part of any issue and being able to give better solutions to any problem, making the difference. ”

Note: The information contained herein is subject to change.

Master of Science (MSc) Digital Project Management & Consulting Specialisation Careers

Placement report.

100%   are employed

were employed before graduation

were employed 3 to 6 months after graduation

have a job with an international dimension

€41,861  average starting annual salary

€6,392.86  average annual bonus

Real Estate

Information Technology (Excluding service providers)

Automobile/Rail/Main Transport/Aeronautics

Career opportunities

• Business Analyst
• Project Manager
• Supply Chain Executive
• Business Consultant
• Strategy Consultant
• Business Development
• Digital Project Manager

Companies Hiring

Spectrum – Everis – Wavestone – Siemens Healthineers – PwC – NESTLE – Steiner SA....

Mélanie ROUDAUT Junior Consultant in Project Management at MI-GSO (Renault)

“ ESCP gave me the opportunity to learn how to work within multicultural teams and to deal with business cases I had no previous knowledge about. It enabled me to enhance my adaptability and open-mindedness which is essential in a fast moving and international business world. It also enabled me to know the company I am currently working for through a case study. ”

Master of Science (MSc) Digital Project Management & Consulting Specialisation Admissions

Admission requirements.

• A Bachelor or Master degree in any discipline; Minimum 240ECTS previously acquired at Higher Education Institutions; or Minimum 180 ECTS for some candidates who add value to the group. We will only consider under this derogation students from prestigious institutions and/or excellent academic performance and/or first professional experience.
• TOEFL IBT: 95
• TOEFL written: 600
• TOEFL computer based: 250
• Cambridge: C1 level
• 12 months of professional experience is recommended

Note: Due to accreditation regulations, students starting with less than 240 ECTS need to obtain an additional 30 ECTS at ESCP Business School. The school will offer additional course options for those students. The corresponding fee for these ECTS is 3,200€

*If your bachelor’s degree was taught entirely in English, you do not need to take an English exam, but send a certificate from your university stating that your bachelor’s was taught entirely in English.

Applications are examined in the order of their arrival; they must be submitted as early as possible. We have rolling admissions and limited seats available in each programme. After the application package has been reviewed by the Admission Committee, the candidate will be notified whether he/she will be invited for the final interview.

Step 1: Application form

Applications are made online . Please ensure that you take plenty of time with this form and answer all the questions therein as fully and thoughtfully as possible.

The main elements of the application include:

• A copy of a Bachelor or Master diploma OR certificate of enrollment for current Bachelor studies. (English or Spanish)
• A copy of your grade transcripts covering all years of university study or the years done so far. (English or Spanish)
• Copy of passport
• An updated CV in English
• Motivational letter in English
• Two recommendation letters (English or Spanish). At least one must come from a professional background.
• Official English certificate (if applicable). Exemptions may be granted if you have studied fully in English for three or more years. If your studies were not in an English-speaking country, please apply with a medium of instruction confirmation letter from your university to be considered for exemption.
• If you do not have an official English certificate obtained within the last 2 years, you will be invited to take the ESCP English Proficiency Test , which is completely online.

Remember that you need to submit all the required documents , including English test results, before the application deadline, so if you need to take the ESCP English test , make sure you send your application well before the application deadline to have enough time to complete it.

Please ensure that all required supporting documents are scanned and uploaded during the online application process.

Please note: for full details of the application requirements, please see the online application. An application fee of €130 is required to cover the processing of the application.

Step 2: Personal Interview & Exam

Students holding an official English score (taken within the last two years) are waived to take the ESCP English Proficiency test and must submit a copy of the result of these tests in their application file.

Candidates whose written application is accepted will be invited for an individual interview, which plays an essential role in assessing the abilities and motivation for joining the program. Interviews take place from November to September each year.

Step 3: Confirmation

Admission decisions are sent out by email and post within two weeks of the Admissions interview.  From the moment of the notification, students have a maximum of 10 days to pay the registration fees and thus, confirm their place.

Admission Calendar

We have admission sessions every month as is indicated below * :

(*) only available for candidates with at least 4 years of previous studies or more (minimum 240 ECTS or equivalent). Due to the time required to obtain the Student visa, these admission sessions are only available for European students or those who have a European passport.

Master of Science (MSc) Digital Project Management & Consulting Specialisation Fees & Financial

• Application fee: €130
• Tuition fee: €23,500*
• Term 1 (for candidates with less than 240 ECTS credits): €3,200

* Service fee & travel and accommodation costs of the international seminar are included (mandatory seminar). Other travel and accommodation expenses are not included.

Scholarships

Escp has been committed to recognizing and enabling the most talented international students to pursue their studies and invest in their future career..

The MSc programmes offer  30 partial scholarships of €3,000 over the tuition fees based on financial needs and academic merits .

In order to apply for a scholarship, you must be admitted and enrolled in the program first and you can’t apply for more than one partial scholarship.

The scholarship of €3,000 is compatible with the early bird scholarship, if applicable, and will be deducted from your tuition fees.

Eligibility : Scholarships are open to all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality or background who have been admitted and enrolled to one of our MSc programmes and are able to demonstrate academic merits and/or financial needs.

Process : The candidates who have been admitted and enrolled to one of our MSc programmes and are interested in a partial scholarship must complete a scholarship form (that will be sent by the Student Service Department when the process is open) and send the following documents *:

• A personal statement outlining in detail why they should be awarded our scholarship. The scholarship request can be in any format (video, essay, art, etc.), but it clearly needs to outline your academic achievements and/or current financial situation.
• Last three payslips. If you are currently unemployed or you are not the person financing the program, you will need to send the last three payslips of the person who will be financing the program.
• Annual income tax return from the past two years from the person financing the program.
• Updated CV.
• Official university transcripts.
• Any other official documents certifying your academic excellence or other merits.

* All documents must be sent in English or Spanish . If the original is not in any of these two languages, you must send a sworn translation.

Deadline: Results from this scholarship will be announced in the middle of June by email from the Student Service Department, and the deadline to apply is on 2 June 2024 .

Loans & Bursaries

A programme such as the MSc in Digital Business Project Management & Consulting is perhaps the most significant investment that you will make in your professional life and your future. Below are some options to help fund your time at ESCP.

Offers two loan options for ESCP students

Option 1: Master and Courses Loan

• Loan holder: student or parent
• Maximum amount: up to €75,000
• Interest rate: Euribor + 4%
• Repayment period: up to 8 years
• Fixed Opening Commission: 1,50%

Option 2: Master Blue Loan

• Maximum amount: up to €50,000
• Interest rate: First 6 months (Euribor + 0%), rest period (Euribor + 6%)
• Repayment period: up to 10 years
• Total lack of capital and interests: up to 24 months

More information

Banco Sabadell

Highlights of the ESCP´s agreement with Banco Sabadell offers two ways of financing our degrees:

• Tuition loan.  Interest-free, short-term loan of up to €18,000, to be repaid in 12 months
• Loan . Long-term loan  to be repaid in a maximum of 10 years following the loan applications.

Bank Sabadell reserves the right to refuse the loan if, at the time of submission of the loan application, any circumstances pertaining the person(s) applying for the loan come to light that could alter the decision regarding whether to grant the loan.

FUNED Financing 

Provide complementary financial aid and scholarships for Mexican students who wish to pursue their master ́s degree abroad in top ranked universities.  Students obtain: FUNED Financing + ESCP Scholarship . 

This Scholarship-Loan Program, reserved to talented Colombian students, finances the costs of graduate studies around the world up to a maximum of US$25,000 per year and for a maximum two year stay abroad. Students obtain: Colfuturo Scholarship-financing  + ESCP Scholarship . 

ICETEX 

ICETEX promotes the educational and cultural development of Colombia, particularly through educational credits up to US$25,000.  Students obtain: ICETEX Financing + ESCP Scholarship . 

Scholarships and loans for Panamanian students who wish to pursue their master ́s degree abroad in top ranked universities.  Students obtain: IFARHU + ESCP Scholarship . 

Fundación Carolina

Postgraduate scholarships aimed at training in Spain national graduates of a Latin American country, member of the Ibero-American Community of Nations, or of Portugal, with academic or professional capacity supported by an outstanding curriculum.

Any decisions regarding the loan itself are made by the banks in question and ESCP does not have any say over or responsibility for their final decision.  Conditions and requirements set by each bank and/or institution; students are responsible to go over this directly with them. ESCP does not guarantee that the loans will be granted.

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Celonis Student Thesis and Research (STaR) Program

We highly welcome bachelor or master students, or doctoral candidates interested in writing their thesis, project study, developer study or research seminar papers on process mining and related aspects. It is our mission to empower the next generation of process miners, and this means that we aim to support you and your research as well as we can.

We believe that process mining can make an impact anywhere in the world, and in almost any discipline. Therefore, we explicitly encourage students of all nationalities and backgrounds to join our Celonis STaR Program!

Join the Celonis STaR Program

Sign up for the Celonis STaR Program by completing the sign-up form below and receive all the information you may need to successfully write your thesis, project or developer study or research seminar papers:

Directions on how to get your hands on the academic version of the Celonis Software for free

Training and material on how to use, modify, work and upload data within our Celonis Software in the Celonis Academy

Access to our vibrant community of process mining enthusiasts on our Celopeers Forum

Help from our Academic Research & Innovation Coordinator

 Moreover, if you need additional resources from our side, such as access to further experts, interviews, or if you are interested in starting a project with another academic partner or one of our customers, we could help you. In this case, we need a One-Page pitch from you, explaining what you need from our side, the scientific excellence of the topic, and its relevance for Celonis (and/or other involved stakeholders). You will receive a template for this pitch after signing up for Celonis STaR Program. The pitches are evaluated internally at least twice a month, and you will hear from us shortly. 

Sign up here for the Celonis STaR Program!

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Frequently Asked Questions

Are there any limitations as to which countries students can come from or which universities they are working with.

We especially encourage students from outside of Europe to take part in the Celonis STaR Program. All our materials are available in English.

However, Celonis is legally unable to transact (directly or indirectly) with the following countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. In addition, Celonis does not do business in Russia. If the institution you are studying/working at or with is located in/belongs to one of these countries, then you will need to wait until the situation changes to apply for Celonis STaR Program.

Can I schedule a personal meeting with the Research & Innovation Coordinator?

Due to capacity reasons, we do not schedule calls with students. For every question you have regarding your project with Celonis, please first read the FAQs and the information and instructions we have given you in our welcome package (you get this after signing up for our STaR program).

If you have questions that are not answered by the FAQs, please check our Celonis Community (you will get the information how to engage here in your welcome letter after signing up)

If you have still not received the information you are looking for, you can write an email to [email protected] and state as a Subject “STaR Program + (topic of your question)”.

• Please tell us specifically what your question is and where you need support. Our team will then get back to you. Because we get many requests, following up on your request can take up some days.

Can you help me find an academic supervisor?

If you already know your topic but do not have an academic supervisor yet, we can check within our network whether we know a suitable researcher who can support you. We cannot promise you that we will find somebody, but in most cases this is feasible. It depends on your university whether external supervisors are accepted.

Please note that all communication and the checking of all regulations is in your responsibility. We can only support in making the first introduction.

Do I need to sign any documents to work with you on my project? What about Data Declarations and Non-Disclosure?

If you need to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) depends on your topic. If you only use our standard material and don’t need anything further you don’t need to sign any documents.

If you need access to internal information at Celonis and your thesis contains confidential information (technical data, customer data), you have to sign a Non-Disclosure-Agreement (NDA).

If your project will contain this internal information, your academic supervisor will have to sign an NDA as well, and the project must not be published.

Please also check the Thesis Guidelines in your Welcome Letter for specific information on Non-Disclosure Agreements and Data Security.

How can Celonis support my project?

Celonis can provide researchers and thesis students free access to the academic version of our software and help you analyze your own data. We can provide our expertise and help you get started by giving you access to our digital training platform. We will also connect you with fellow students and researchers through the Celonis community platform. This support is entirely provided online by signing up to our thesis program.

Please do not contact us directly, but first follow the steps of this program. In some cases, we can also provide further support such as contact to experts or interviews. In these cases, we perform a pre-selection of relevant topics through a pitch, for which you can access a template after registration.

How do I find a suitable topic?

You as a student are responsible for finding a topic you want to research on. As a company we have no resources to guide you in finding a research topic. Please frame your topic in agreement with your academic supervisor. If you are writing your thesis with a company, please also make sure that the research topic is in line with your company supervisor.

How closely are you working with external students on their projects?

External students (those not working at Celonis) need to be mainly supervised by their academic and/or company supervisors. We do not have the capacity to support every project extensively.

I am a working student at a company and I would like to use the Celonis Academic Intelligent Business Cloud for my project, which is at the same time a commercial project at the company I work for. Is this possible?

Yes, but only if you use the academic version of our software just for the scope of the project, and only you personally have access to the Celonis account. Any primarily commercial use of our academic version is prohibited, as stated in the terms of use.

Is it also possible to write a doctoral/PhD thesis with support by Celonis?

Yes! If you want to write your PhD Thesis using Celonis materials, please sign up for our STaR programme. You may book an appointment with our Research & Innovation Coordinator, who will be able to discuss the scope of our involvement. However, we do not give out any PhD scholarships or working positions only with the purpose of writing a PhD thesis.

Is there a possibility to work with Celonis as a working student while I write my thesis?

At the moment, we do not offer working student positions only for the purpose of writing a thesis. However, you can check our career page for open internship or working student positions and then contact us to find out if a combination with your thesis topic is possible.

What does the Celonis STaR Program cover and what not?

What we provide after you have signed up for our Thesis Program:

• We provide students and researchers (after signing up for our STaR program) with free access to our Celonis Software the Execution Management System (EMS).
• We provide free access to our Online Academy and train you to become a process mining expert.
• Within our StaR program package you also get access to some literature and our Celosphere Conference contents.
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Master's theses at FEV Consulting have very strong practical applications and can be based on current issues from our customer projects. Typically, you will have the opportunity to be part of a project team for a longer period of time and to write your master's thesis on a project-related topic. We also offer master theses on new topics and approaches. If you already have your own topic in mind - let's discuss!

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How I Got the Job: Consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton

Carrie Collins, MPP Class of 2024, shares how she leveraged the resources available to her at Harris to secure her job as Associate Management Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton before graduation. 

I've always been interested in public sector consulting, so it was frustrating when I wasn't able to attend a Consulting Day event hosted through the Career Development Office (CDO) . I reached out to Ethan Rucker , the Associate Director of CDO, and asked if I could get him my resume and cover letter to share with Booz Allen Hamilton, which I knew would be at the fair. Ethan said, “While I can't promise they'll review it, you can send it to me.”  

So I reached out to Kamillia Forbes , former president of Harris Student Government , who works at Booz Allen. I said, “Kam, I'm applying to this job, and you already have it. What do I need to know to really make myself stand out?” So she and I had a quick call while I was working on the cover letter for Ethan. 

I eventually was given a screening call, where the Booz Allen representative instructed me to apply for a general management senior consultant position. On the night of my dog's birthday party, Booz Allen said that they wanted to interview me.

To prepare for the interview, I really did my homework. Kam connected me to Dave Sulek, Senior Vice President at Booz Allen, and we spoke about what Booz Allen is, what they do, why he pushed for more MPP hires, and what he thinks it's done for Booz Allen. During our conversation, something he said really struck me: “Booz Allen isn't really a consulting firm—we are a technology firm that does consulting. And that doesn't always appeal to people who are coming from public policy.” But for me, it was a watershed moment. 

Government historically moves a little slower than other sectors, so technology as a solution had never really seemed viable to me. But, if governments worked with third party consulting firms, it could work. 

I can use technology solutions to make the government better. It was a big light bulb moment.

The process with Booz Allen unfolded fairly quickly: I had behavioral interviews that were followed a couple days later with an email about security clearance, and the next day I got an email that they wanted to have a call to discuss my full-time offer. We went through the salary negotiation process, and I will be starting in August as a General Management Consultant at the Associate Level—the highest level they've ever hired out of Harris. I'm most excited, however, because I was able to get my offer signed even before finals during my fall quarter, which was huge.

At Booz Allen, I will also be on the Civilian Services team, so my whole job is how to use technology to create better delivery of government services for civilians. My soon-to-be colleagues are using generative AI, machine learning, and data science to optimize the use of resources to make sure we are giving as much as possible where there is the greatest need.

Subsequently, I spoke to Harris alums who work at Booz Allen and asked: "What kind of moments could I draw on to keep me pushing forward through mission-driven projects?" And every single person said that not only were they wildly fulfilled by their job, but they also saw immediate results from many of the projects—and got to know the people those projects benefited. Knowing that so many people who had come from the same program as I did felt like they were working towards tangible goals was a huge relief. It was a no-brainer to accept my job at Booz Allen.

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Supreme Court Puppet Master’s Consulting Firm Clients Exposed in Leak

The consulting firm led by Leonard Leo , the architect of the Supreme Court ’s conservative supermajority, has worked for billionaire Charles Koch’s political advocacy network and a dark-money group that is currently arguing a Supreme Court case designed to preempt a wealth tax, according to documents obtained by Rolling Stone . The firm even worked to promote a book by Donald Trump cronies Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie.

Leo has played a central role in shifting the high court and its decisions far to the right. As former President Donald Trump’s judicial adviser, Leo helped select three of the Supreme Court’s six conservative justices. He also leads a dark-money network that boosted their confirmations and helps determine what cases the justices hear and shape their rulings.

Leo co-chairs the Federalist Society, the conservative lawyers network. He is also the chairman of CRC. Like many consulting firms, CRC does not publicly disclose its clients. However, several of the firm’s clients were named in resumes that applicants submitted to an online jobs bank hosted by the Conservative Partnership Institute, which accidentally left the files exposed online .

One CRC employee’s 2024 resume says his clients include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a dark-money group arguing a case before the Supreme Court this term that is designed to slam the door shut on a federal wealth tax. Experts say the case could upend the nation’s tax code. 

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According to the CRC employee’s 2024 resume, Leo’s firm has also worked for the Koch network’s political advocacy arm, Americans for Prosperity. AFP’s super PAC spent more than $40 million supporting former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s failed Republican primary campaign against Trump this election cycle. AFP’s charitable arm has supported a case at the Supreme Court this term pushing justices to block the government from influencing content moderation by social media platforms.

The CRC employee’s resume also notes the firm has worked with Lewandowski, the former Trump campaign manager. The employee writes that he “helped generate extensive, positive news coverage” for Trump: America First , a book that Lewandowski co-wrote with Bossie.

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Senate Democrats subpoenaed Leo after he refused to detail the gifts and payments he has directed to Supreme Court justices and their spouses. The District of Columbia’s attorney general is also reportedly investigating whether Leo has misused nonprofit laws for personal enrichment.

Documents show CRC has worked with major corporate clients as well as ideologically conservative startups.  

In 2020, E&E News named one of the firm’s corporate clients: Chevron. The outlet reported that CRC had sought to get journalists to write about how green groups had wrongfully “claimed solidarity” with black protesters while “backing radical policies like the Green New Deal which would bring harm to minority communities. The message’s tagline suggested it was sent by Chevron.

The CRC employee’s 2020 resume file lists another corporate client: pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. Like its competitors, the drugmaker has faced scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers for jacking up the price of insulin products that diabetics need to live. While Lilly announced a price cut last year, The Los Angeles Times noted that the new price was “still higher by two-thirds than it should be,” and the company could actually end up collecting higher profits.

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Gianni Infantino hits back at criticism of FIFA over ‘overloaded’ football calendar

FIFA and the top domestic leagues are on a collision course after the global governing body’s president Gianni Infantino hit back at claims that FIFA is to blame for saturating the calendar with new events.

At a European Leagues meeting in London last month, Premier League boss Richard Masters rebuked FIFA for not consulting national leagues before expanding the annual, seven-team Club World Cup to a 32-team competition that will be played every four years, with the first edition scheduled to run from June 15 to July 13 in the United States next summer.

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Masters said the football calendar had reached a “tipping point” in terms of fixture congestion, with players telling their clubs they felt “overloaded”.

A week after those comments, the World Leagues Association (WLA), which Masters chairs, teamed up with players’ union FIFPro to demand FIFA moves the Club World Cup two weeks forward , reopens talks on player-release windows for international matches and scraps the old Club World Cup, which has been rebranded the Intercontinental Cup and will still be played every year.

Those demands came in an angry email to Infantino and FIFA’s general secretary Mattias Grafstrom which prompted an equally spiky response from Grafstrom a week later.

The email from the players and leagues accused FIFA of making unilateral decisions on the calendar that “benefit its own competitions and commercial interests” to the detriment of national competitions.

In his riposte, Grafstrom strongly rejected the claim that FIFA had failed to consult the relevant parties but invited FIFPro and WLA for talks on the calendar this summer.

That invitation, however, is unlikely to be enough to stop the players’ union and leagues from taking legal action — possibly in multiple national courts — against FIFA in the coming months. In fact, that looks almost certain after Infantino’s outburst.

Speaking at the 74th FIFA Congress in Bangkok on Friday, Infantino told delegates he wanted to respond to “critics” who have accused FIFA of “organising too many games”.

Having pointed out that most of the new events FIFA has created are in the women’s game, the Swiss-Italian said that even the after the new Club World Cup starts, FIFA will still only organise “around one percent of the games played by the top teams”.

FIFA said it is a similar story in terms of men’s international football, with FIFA responsible for less than two per cent of fixtures played by national sides, with the vast majority staged by the game’s six confederations.

“But with these one to two per cent of matches, FIFA finances football all over the world,” said Infantino. “Our revenues aren’t just going to a few rich clubs but they go all over the world. No other organisation does that.

“So, I hope these figures show that we should stop this futile debate that’s really pointless.”

If Infantino really thinks this intervention will end the debate, he is likely to be disappointed, as the WLA, which represents 44 top leagues, including the Bundesliga , LaLiga and Serie A , is in no mood to back down on what it views as an existential threat to domestic football leagues.

It believes that the top players are going to be forced to take mini-breaks during never-ending seasons, in order to avoid injury and maintain their form. This, the leagues say, will inevitably damage the product they sell to broadcasters, match-going fans and sponsors.

For the leagues, the timing of the inaugural 32-team Club World Cup is the straw that broke the camel’s back, as it means participating players will not be able to get the four-week, off-season break that medical experts and players’ unions want before they are expected back in for pre-season training.

The solution, they believe, is obvious: move the new tournament forward so it finishes by the end of June. FIFA, however, has not wanted to give up the international window that sits at the start of June, which many nations use to schedule friendlies.

FIFPro, which is upset with FIFA for not agreeing to mandatory rest periods, and the WLA believe the recent European Court of Justice ruling on how FIFA and UEFA responded to the European Super League in 2021 has made it clear that governing bodies cannot just impose their will on others without taking steps to make sure their decisions are fair, transparent and proportionate.

The WLA, in fact, has considered taking legal action against FIFA as a unified body but some of its members, including Mexico ’s Liga MX, America’s MLS and the Saudi Pro League, voted against the idea. The majority of its members do want to take action, though, so a more individual approach is expected.

FIFA, on the other hand, will point out that the game benefits financially from having a coordinated calendar and the money it raises from its tournaments are ploughed back into development programmes around the globe.

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