1. The Study Program includes a set of common core courses compulsory for all postgraduate students and two subsets of specialised compulsory and optional courses corresponding to two (2) specializations: A) “Macropalaeontology” and B) “Micropalaeontology-Biostratigraphy”.
2. The total number of European Credit Transfer Credits (ECTS) for the award of the Master Degree is 90 ECTS and the courses start in the winter semester.
3. The maximum number of postgraduate students per lecturer is three (3)
4. Online teaching may not exceed 30% of the teaching hours per course.
5. Courses can be either on a weekly basis, with each course lasting at least 10 weeks, or on an aggregate basis (en block). In either case, the number of teaching/laboratory hours may not be less than four times the number of credit hours of the course.
6. Courses are in Greek but with the possibility of conducting part or all of the courses or the entire program of each direction in English.
7. To obtain the MSc degree, students are required to attend a two-semester course schedule (30ECTS per semester) and to complete a Postgraduate Diploma Thesis in the third semester. The examination in the individual courses is carried out by means of written or oral examinations, the preparation of assignments or a combination of the above.
8. Course grades are submitted to the Secretariat within 20 days of the end of the examination period.
9. In order to obtain the right to start the master thesis (MT), the student is required to have accumulated at least 70% of the total ECTS of the two semesters.
10. The dissertation may be written in Greek or in English with an extended abstract in an alternative language to that of the dissertation.
11. The assignment, preparation and approval of the Master Thesis are defined in accordance with the Internal Regulations of the program.
- The subject of the MT must be of a research nature and the results must be presented in the form of a dissertation thesis. It is not possible to change the topic of the MT, except by decision of the Study Program Commission (SPC) and after a reasoned recommendation of the supervisor.
- The MT shall be delivered to the Examining Committee at least one month before its oral examination, unless otherwise decided by the SPC on a case-by-case basis.
- In order to have the MT approved, the student must present orally the thesis in public and in the presence of the examining committee, which is responsible for organizing the public presentation. The presentations of the MT may take place in any of the collaborating academic units or by online means.
- After the presentation of the MT, the examining committee examines the candidate and decides on the acceptance or rejection, giving, at the same time, the relevant descriptive and numerical score on a scale of 1-10. The results of the ms and oral examination and the final grade are submitted by the committee in a form of report to the Secretariat.
- The Director of the program maintains, in collaboration with the Secretariat, a special list of master thesis topics which necessarily includes the name of the candidate, the supervisor(s), the members of the three-member examination committee, the date of assignment of the topic and the date of the end of the procedure either by acceptance or rejection.
- -The master thesis, if approved, must be posted on the website of AUTh Library.
- The time for the preparation of the Master’s Thesis cannot exceed two academic semesters from the date of its assignment. If this time is exceeded, the postgraduate student can be removed from the program., after recommendation by the Director, and decision by the SPC.