This might be a silly question but why are theses so long (200+ pages)? Someone just told me that they finished their 213 pages-long bachelor’s thesis, but I‘m confused about who the audience would be. Who would spend so much time reading a 213 thesis of a bachelor student? Do people actually read them? What is the purpose of some theses being so long. Also, on a Masters level, does the long length not make important information inaccessible, because it‘s buried deep down in those hundreds of pages?
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Either because the bachelor student, being just a bachelor student, is inexperienced in separating necessary info from unnecessary info and creating a text with a high density of information, or because the bachelor student was told to add a transcript of all code and every used graphic in the appendix, which accounted for 150 pages, and the list of sources another 10.
My prof told me if the body of my thesis was more than 40 pages he would not read it because he had better things to do. 213pgs is bonkers.
Also, to answer your second question: research performed by bachelor students is often incorporated into (aka done as part of) a larger research project led by a master student, PhD or someone else/a team within the department. Eg in my case, another student used the math I put together to build a simulation model, and both those projects went into a research paper published by a PhD student.
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