Through carrying out their Master’s project, students will considerably increase their ability to formulate, delineate and investigate a problem using scientific working methods.
The topic must be chosen so that knowledge from previous studies can be applied, broadened and deepened.
Each student chooses his/her own topic for their Master’s project in consultation with their supervisor and/or examiner.

The student then draws up a plan for the Master’s project which functions as a work plan and a timetable for completion of the project, and as an agreement between student and the division/supervisor/examiner.
This plan must be approved by the supervisor and examiner before work begins on the Master’s project.

Each student must work independently with the support of the supervisor. The course also involves reading relevant applied literature relating to the work.

Before the Master’s thesis is submitted, the supervisor must approve the work for examination. This examination involves appraisal of the submitted thesis and of the student’s presentation at the concluding seminar.

Students must report their work in a popular science written thesis, which is marked with respect to the introduction to the issue, problem formulation, method description, data handling, presentation of results, discussion, conclusions, use of the literature, use of language and amount of irrelevant text