Applicants from Politecnico di Torino

Direct admission

You are automatically admitted to a Master’s degree programme (after submitting your application for admission on the Apply@polito platform) if:

• you earned your Bachelor’s degree in 4 years or less⁽¹⁾, with a weighted average grade of all the exams ⁽²⁾  equal to or greater than 24/30;
• you earned your Bachelor’s degree in more than 4 years but less than 5 years⁽¹⁾, with a weighted average grade of all the exams ⁽²⁾  equal to or greater than 25/30.

The weighted average grade is calculated on all accrued course credits (graded on a scale of 30) counting towards the achievement of the Bachelor’s degree, after having subtracted the worst 28 credits. Please note that numbers are not rounded.

 The duration of your university path is calculated on the number of academic years you have been enrolled for:  

• 1 year for each academic year of full-time enrolment;
• 0,5 year for each academic year of part-time enrolment

In the event of credit transfer, the duration of the university path is increased proportionally to the number of recognized credits (10-60 credits = 1 year, etc.). The worst 28 credits must be subtracted proportionally to the number of recognized credits. 

⁽¹⁾ you must graduate by December in order to meet the average grade requirement.
⁽²⁾ the weighted average is calculated as follows: (grade*credits) /credits

Admission by passing the admission test (interview)

If you don't meet the admission requirements for direct admission, you need to go through a merit-based evaluation. You must pass the admission test (interview)

PLEASE NOTE: following the decisions of the Academic Senate of 30^th May 2020 and 23^rd March 2021, the academic years 2019/20 and 2020/21 will not count towards the total duration of your academic studies for the purposes of admission to the Master's degree programmes for academic year 2021/2022 and following years.

This table summarizes and provides an example for full-time students

Considering that you can submit your application for admission to a Master's degree programme after having earned 140 credits and that the average and duration requirements could change by the time you actually earn your Bachelor's degree, you have the possibility to register for the admission test for a merit-based evaluation in order to fulfill the academic performance requirements. You can do so even if you are eligible for direct admission on the date of application submission.

Politecnico gives you the opportunity to go through this merit-based evaluation so that you have an additional chance to be admitted if your average grade decreases or your time to graduation increases.

Your offer of admission is only valid for the academic year in which you submitted your application. This means that if you are admitted to the programme but you eventually do not enrol, you will have to submit your application through the Apply@polito platform again for admission in future academic years.  

Curricular requirements are verified through the Apply procedure.

Curricular requirements for admission to the Master's degree course are the possession of a degree or three-year university diploma or other qualification obtained abroad deemed suitable pursuant to Art. 6 c.2 of Italian Ministerial Decree 270/04, the skills and knowledge acquired in the Bachelor's degree programme of origin expressed in the form of credits referring to specific scientific-disciplinary sectors or groups thereof.

It is necessary to have acquired a minimum number of credits as specified in the table

The credits from the scientific-disciplinary fields in both the first group and the second group are counted in priority towards meeting the requirement for the first group. The remaining credits are counted towards meeting the requirement of the second group. The credits from one course may then be counted towards meeting the minimum number of credits from both groups.

If you lack max 10 credits to be admitted to the programme, the Academic Advisor can decide to accept you in any case; if you lack more than 10 credits, your application must be evaluated  by the Coordinator or by the Deputy Coordinator of the Collegio of the Master's degree programme.

Please check the tables below in order to know, for each Master's Degree Programme of Politecnico di Torino and each Teaching Regulation, the Bachelor's Degree Programme that meets suitable the curricular requirements (continuity Degrees).

Students or graduated ex D.M. 270/04

 Students or graduated ex D.M. 509/99

If you come from a Bachelor's degree programme of another Bachelor's class, your application will be sent to the Teaching Committee for evaluation. If you do not meet the curricular requirements for admission to this programme, the Teaching Committee will suggest the courses that you need to take in order to make up for your unfulfilled academic requirements. 

In this case, you will have to attend the courses suggested by the Teaching Committee and pass the exams before you can enrol in the Master's degree programme.

If you need to make up for 60 credits or less, you must enrol in single courses for unfulfilled academic requirements and take the exams. This type of single course enrolment is allowed exclusively for the courses assigned by the Teaching Committee.

If you pass the admission test, you can be admitted to the programme in the academic year following the one for which the admission test was taken (in any case after passing the exams - single courses - suggested to make up for your unfulfilled academic requirements).

For the purposes of obtaining an English language certificate (B2 level)*, reference is made to the table of certificate or exemptions accepted in substitution for the IELTS 5.5. published at the link: https://didattica.polito.it/cla/it/certificazioni. Reference is made to the “Tabella adottata in data 23/09/2019 - aggiornata in data 22/12/2022”

Possession of level B2 certification (IELTS 5.5) is required for admission to all Master's degree programmes.

*For the purposes of admission to the Master's degree courses, the date of obtaining the certificate is not taken into account, only the level achieved.

Cases of exemption 

• IB Diploma (International Baccalaureate https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/) only in case the entire path is taught in English, except foreign languages;
• Educational qualifications awarded by the European schools included in the Procedures for entry, residency and enrolment of international students and the respective recognition of qualifications, for higher education courses in Italy - Attachment 2^*, only if the first language (L1) is English;
• Non-Italian qualification recognized by the Italian Ministry of University and Research as equivalent to the Italian high school diploma (diploma di maturità), or university degree awarded by a school/university in which the medium of instruction is English and issued by USA, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, wherever the school/ university is located.
• Non-Italian qualification recognized by the Italian Ministry of University and Research as equivalent to the Italian high school diploma (diploma di maturità), or university degree awarded by a school/university in which the medium of instruction is English, only if based in one of the countries listed in Annex A

In order to submit your application, you must enter your English language proficiency certification details. If you do not have the certification, you can still apply, but you will need to enter the certification by the online registration deadline.

The University reserves itself the right to check a sample of at least 5% of students by requesting the presentation of the original documentation to verify the certificate authenticity with the Certifing Boards.

Those who do not meet the language requirement by the deadline for enrolment from the 1^st semester can enrol in the single courses by entering the courses of the 1^st courses of the 1^st year of the Master's degree programme for which they were rated 'failed' due to the lack of the language requirement.

By enrolling in individual courses, it will also be possible to take advantage of the IELTS sessions organised by the Teaching & Language Centre Office, for which a reduced fee will be charged.

As soon as the English language certificate has been obtained, it will be possible to enrol in the Master's degree programme by 4 March 2024 with automatic validation of the courses attended/passed. Tuition for the 1^st semester that was not included at the time of enrolment cannot be supplemented at a later date.

PLEASE NOTE: you can see your language certificates (obtained through the CLA and/or outside Politecnico) on your personal page of the Teaching Portal - Apply@polito portlet. This information is available under your personal data. Admission decisions are not based on the date of your language certificate but only on your language level.

N.B. A passing grade in the English language exam organized by the University Language Centre in academic year 2019/20 during the Covid19 emergency (registered under your personal information as LANGUAGE DECLARATION FOR COVID-19) DOES NOT qualify you for admission to a Master's degree programme.

If you are enrolled in a Bachelor's degree course at this Polytechnic, in the case of graduation after the September 2023 session (December 2023 or February 2024), it is possible to include in your annual personal study plan the courses of the 1st year of your Master's degree through the credit advancement procedure if you meet the following requirements:

• having obtained a positive assessment on the application for admission to a Master's degree course (please note that in order to submit the Apply assessment request, it is necessary to be in possession of at least 140 credits from the Bachelor's degree programme by the July session)
• have a maximum debt of 23 credits (including the English language exam and final exam) to complete the Bachelor's degree programme, by the end of the autumn exam session (September), having maintained the average prescribed for access to the Master's degree courses or having passed the merit assessment/admission test/interview.

Those who meet the requirements for admission to a Master's degree programme, but who have not yet obtained the English language certificate (see Language requirements), will be allowed to anticipate the lessons of the 1^st year semester of the Master's degree programme for which they have obtained a positive assessment.

If the English language course is passed by September, the relevant credits will not count towards the 23 cfu debt.

The placement, if included in the annual personal study plan of the academic year preceding the one for which you are applying, will not count towards the 23 cfu debt if registered by 31 December.

Those who have been included in the teaching load, but at the end of the September examination session will have a debt of more than 23 credits or will lose the average requirement, will have these courses removed from the annual personal study plan.

For admission to the new academic year, if the average requirement is not met, it will be necessary to take the admission test again.

In the calculation of the 23 credits still to be acquired, no courses relating to Workshops and Ateliers may be included. Students enrolled in the Bachelor's degree programme for the fourth or fifth time who lose the requirements for the adequacy of their personal preparation, in the event that they have not passed the admission test, will not be admitted to the Master's degree programme.

Only those subjects that begin in the 1^st semester of the first year of the Master's degree may be brought forward, and they may only be brought forward once.

Those who have entered their Master's degree programme in advance, but who have not obtained their Bachelor's degree by the February/March session, will keep the advanced courses in their annual personal study plan and will be able to take their exams in the summer and autumn sessions.

Procedure

Students who have been granted eligibility must add to the annual personal study plan of their first-level degree the courses related to the Master's degree programme, highlighted in purple in the list of courses that can be included, through the procedure for defining the PSP/APSP by the deadlines indicated in the Student Guide 2023/24 for their first-level degree course.

Once eligibility has been obtained, those who do not proceed with the advancement of their Master's degree course in the academic year for which they have applied for admission must reapply through the Apply procedure for access in subsequent academic years.

Once eligibility has been obtained, those who have advanced their courses and do not proceed with enrolment for the Master's degree programme in the academic year for which they applied must re-apply through the Apply procedure to enrol in the following academic years.