Master's thesis

The students will start their Master's thesis projects according to their own schedules all around the year. However, the strongest need for Master's thesis topics is in the beginning of the autumn and spring semesters as well as at the end of spring semester.

LUT University recommends that the student will get paid for the Master's thesis project. This can happen either by employing the student for a work relationship or giving him/her a grant for the thesis project.

You can check the salary recommendations by employee unions and grant procedures below.

• TEK salary recommendations
• Suomen Ekonomit pay recommendations
• Grant through Research Foundation

LUT Career Spark subsidy covers part of the wage costs when employer offers an international student a paid Master's thesis position with employment relationship.

The company or other organization should

• offer a topic suitable for the thesis and be willing to define the topic in more detail
• actively participate in supervising the thesis project for the whole duration of the project and
• read the final Master's thesis and give comments to it.

Naturally, the student will also need an access to all the information and material needed from the company's / organization's side to execute the thesis project.

Masters's thesis always has a designated supervisor from LUT University.

You can publish your Master's thesis positions to our students in an electric JobTeaser job portal. We will publish all Master's thesis positions suitable for our study fields regardless of the salary level.

Note that the students will select the Master's thesis position which interests them and at the time that suits their studies. Therefore, all offered Master's thesis projects will not be carried out. We recommend that you will pay attention to the attractiveness of your Master's thesis position, the flexibility of its schedule and the way you present it to the students. Unpaid Master's thesis positions will be applied quite rarely.

The final topic of the Master's thesis will always be defined in a meeting together with the company / organization, student and the supervising professor.

Master's thesis reports are public documents and they will be published at LUTPub database.

If required, an embargo can be set for the report for max. 2 years. After that the report will be published. Despite the embargo, the thesis is available on request in the LUT Academic Library.

If the student makes the Master's thesis in a work relationship, the employer and the student will sign a normal contract of employment together.

In all other cases, a separate agreement will not be signed. However, the employer may agree about the confidentiality of the information directly with the student.

The professor supervising and evaluating the Master's thesis is bound by the confidentiality obligation of the work agreement. Therefore, the teachers will not sign any separate confidentiality agreements.

If the Master's thesis is done in a work relationship, the employer is responsible for providing necessary insurances for the student.

For Master's thesis projects without a work relationship, LUT University students are covered with Worker's Compensation Insurance. Liability insurance is not provided by LUT University.

If you need some assistance in evaluating or defining your thesis idea, please contact:

• Business Administration: Hanna Salojärvi
• Chemical Engineering: Ritva Tuunila
• Computational Engineering: Lassi Roininen
• Electrical Engineering: Katja Hynynen
• Energy Technology: Päivi Sikiö
• Environmental Technology: Sanni Väisänen
• Indutrial Engineering and Management: Petra Pekkanen
• Mechanical Engineering: Harri Eskelinen
• Software Engineering: Jussi Kasurinen
• Social Sciences: Hanna-Mari Husu