Degree project (independent project)

Degree projects at SLU must be handled in accordance with the same procedures and responsibilities as other higher education. Degree projects are different to other courses, however, as described here and in related documents.

Common guidelines are available in Education planning and administration handbook, section 9. Independent project (degree project).

Here are links to the template for the Independent project work plan.

There is also more information for each faculty:

• For teachers at the LTV faculty
• Degree projects at the NJ faculty
• Degree projects at the S faculty (in Swedish only)
• Degree projects at the VH faculty

Suggest a subject for degree projects

As a teacher, you can also suggest subjects for degree projects in SLU CareerGate: slukarriar@slu.se.

Writing and publishing

On the library's website there is general information and guidance for students' writing (see links below).

All independent projects will be checked for plagiarism (in Ouriginal) before being approved. The grading of the student's work should not be affected by whether it will be published or not.

According to SLU's Agreement regarding transfer of the right to publish a work, students need to approve the publishing of student projects. From 1 March 2021, the approval must be documented and archived by the department responsible for the course. The date 1 March 2021 refers to when the work is approved and completed according to Ladok.

The approval can take place in one of the following ways:

1. The student can approve or refrain from publishing by signing an appendix to the work plan for student projects.
2. The student can approve publishing when handing in the project. In the library's template for student projects, for example, it is possible to select via checkbox whether the work is to be published or not.

If the student chooses to publish the work in full text, the pdf file and metadata will be openly visible, searchable and possible to read and download.

It the student does not approve publishing, the work must still be uploaded to Epsilon for archiving purposes, but only metadata and summary will then be visible and searchable.