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by a-saleh 4086 days ago
This might be technicality, but at a university I studied in Czech Republic, it was sufficient if the bachelors thesis contained no original research, and was more or less just an overview of current developments in a subfield of what you study.

I think the reasoning was, that 2 semesters that it took to write is too little time to conduct any original research, and that showcasing ability to write a comprehensive scientific text and process current scientific papers is enough to varrant a bachelors thesis.

Master thesis had to have original research.

Maybe there are more differences between Denmark and Czech higher education.

For example, do you have just a thesis defense, or do you need to pass some sort of state examination as well?

I remember, that a fried of mine was contrasting mostly four week blocks of intense study on single topic in Denmark with for Czech more standard semester with 5-10 classes, each 1-5 hours a week.