Working on Your Bachelor Thesis Project in a Business School: What to Expect?

A bachelor thesis can be the first, significantly big project of your career (and there is a good chance that it won’t be the last).

BA & IBA graduation ceremony 2019 (source)

Writing a bachelor thesis in a business school is an exciting endeavor. It signals that you’re approaching the end of a long, demanding program. It requires you to recall a lot of the concepts you studied. And it asks you to be ready to take on one last challenge before you step up your career.

What can you expect from this experience? What can you expect from your instructor? And what can you expect from yourselves?

What to Expect From the Process

1. An all-round learning experience
   As you will see in “what to expect from yourself”, writing a thesis can be more than just completing a set of assignments. You will gain valuable skills that can be applied to your future studies, jobs, and life. Time management, people management, project management, field work, analytics work, business insights: you can expect this (and more) working on your research project.
2. Ups and downs of the research process
   Contrary to other college assignments, there is no answer key to your thesis project…