This year, the first students will be writing a project instead of a bachelor’s thesis. What exactly does that involve?

The bachelor’s project is a concise academic report that outlines the solution to a specific problem closely related to the student’s field of study. It serves as the basis for defending the work before the state final examination committee. The completed project should clearly and comprehensibly present the results achieved and demonstrate that the authors fully understand both the problem they addressed and the approach they chose to solve it.

A strong focus on practice rather than theory

The bachelor’s project should focus primarily on practical, real-world issues. In economics and management-oriented programs, this might include topics such as business management, managerial and marketing processes, or financial relationships within and outside an organization. In IT-focused programs, the emphasis is typically on the design and implementation of technological systems or their components.

Students won’t be able to avoid doing a literature review. They will need to find relevant academic sources on their own, cite them properly, and verify whether the topic has already been explored. Only then can they turn this research into a meaningful and coherent summary.

This is, in fact, our response to the rise of artificial intelligence: without a genuine understanding of the problem, the underlying theory, and the broader context, students simply won’t manage. It’s not enough to just “generate something” or put together a questionnaire.

Scope and Structure of the Project

The recommended length of the bachelor’s project is 7–10 pages, depending on the topic and the chosen approach. The total length should not exceed 15 pages when using the prescribed template. The title page, table of contents, list of references, and appendices are not included in this limit. There is no restriction on the number or length of appendices.

Logical Structure

Economics and Management Projects

For data-driven projects, the best approach is to proceed step by step, from the research question to the conclusions:

• Define your research question and clearly state what you aim to find out.
• Identify the data you will need.
• Describe how the data will be collected and analyzed, explaining both how it was obtained and the methods you will use to ensure the results are interpretable.

IT Projects

For projects focused on designing a technological system, the central focus is the specific problem that the system is intended to solve:

• Define the system requirements and specify what the final solution is expected to accomplish.
• Justify your choice of technologies and methods.
• Describe the system architecture, showing how it operates and how the individual components are connected.
• Evaluate its functionality and conclude with a practical assessment of what the system delivers in real-world use.

Working with Results and Recommendations

The purpose of the project is not merely to repeat the numbers from tables, charts, or models. What matters is explaining their significance and placing them in a broader context.

From the very beginning, the reader should understand:

• what the project addresses,
• why the topic is important,
• and how the author arrived at the results.

Recommendations must be supported by data and logically follow from it. For each recommendation, its benefit should be clearly explained. If you don’t know why the proposed solution is better than the alternatives, it is not a valid recommendation.

We wish all students the best of luck as they defend their bachelor’s projects this year.

We wish everyone great success and believe that this new format will help advance our faculty toward becoming a modern and prestigious university. At the Faculty of Business and Economics at Mendel University.