Requirements for students of Politecnico di Torino

The average admission requirement depends on the duration of the course of study, i.e. on the number of academic years of enrolment since first enrolment in the Italian university system*: 

For those enrolled full-time, the duration coincides with the academic years of enrolment.
For those enrolled part-time, the duration is calculated considering half a year of enrolment for each part-time year.

*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. 

Direct admission without taking the admission test

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 27/30;
• 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 28/30.

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 

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.

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 of a certain Scientific Disciplinary Field present both for the first and for the second group are counted for the first group.

Residual credits are counted for the second group.

The credits from one course can then be taken into account to satisfy 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

* Inter-university degree course with the University of Parma (Administrative seat: University of Parma)

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).

English language knowledge certification

Applicants must have an English language certificate (B2 level), as defined by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

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.

*Admission decisions are not based on the date of your language certificate but only on your language level.

Possession of level B2 certification (IELTS 5.5) is a requirement for admission to the Master's degree programme.

• 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 the application, you need to enter your English language knowledge certification information. If you do not have the certification, the application can still be submitted; you will need to enter the certification by the online registration deadline.

Those who are not in possession of the language requirement by the deadline for enrolment from the 1^st semester can register for single courses by entering courses from the 1^st semester of the 1^st year of the Master's degree programme for which they have been rated “rejected” due to lack of the language requirement.

By enrolling in single courses, it will also be possible to take advantage of the IELTS sessions organized by the “Teaching & Language Center” Office, which involve payment of a reduced amount compared to that provided by other external bodies.

As soon as the English language knowledge certification is obtained, it will be possible to enrol for the Master's Degree programme by Feb. 24, 2025 with the ex officio validation of the courses attended/passed. Courses in the 1^st semester that were not included at the time of enrollment cannot be supplemented later.

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. 

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.

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.

If you are a Bachelor’s student at Politecnico di Torino and you are going to graduate after the September 2024 graduation period (December 2024 or February 2025), it is possible to include courses in the annual personal study plan of the 1^st semester of the 1^st year of the Master's degree programme through the credit advancement procedure if the following requirements are met:

• entry requirements for the chosen Master's degree programme (curricular requirements, suitability of personal preparation);
• at the end of the autumn examination session (September), you only have a maximum of 23 credits still unearned* (including the English language exam and the Final essay) before achieving your Bachelor’s degree, and you have maintained the average grade required for admission, or, you passed the merit evaluation/admission test/interview..

If you do not yet have the language certification, you can still submit your career evaluation request and request advances even if the warning “Language requirements not met” appears.

Please note:

• it is possible to advance courses only once during the Bachelor's degree programme. Once advanced, the Master's degree courses will remain in the APSP until the Bachelor's degree is awarded, but it will not be possible to add new courses to be advanced; 
• advanced courses (attended but not passed and/or passed and registered) will be reversed to the career of the chosen Master's degree programme;
• you can only advance first-semester courses belonging to the first year of a Master’s degree programme;
• if you pass the English language exam by September, the English exam credits will not count among the 23 unearned credits;
• any internship, if it was included in the Annual Personal Study Plan of the academic year preceding the one for which you are applying, will not fall among the 23 unearned credits, provided that the internship is registered in your trasncript by 31^st December.
• If you included some Master’s courses in your APSP but at end of the September examination session you still have more than 23 unearned credits these courses will be deleted from your APSP. You need to apply again for admission in the next academic year and wait for a new evaluation of the Admissions Committee.
• to those who will have placed advances in the APSP, but will lose the average requirement, in the event that they have not received a positive portfolio evaluation these courses will be removed from the APSP. For access to the new academic year, it will be necessary to reapply through the Apply procedure and pass the admission test.
• those who will lose the suitable academic performance, in case they have failed the admission test, will not be able to enter the Master's degree programme;
• If you advanced some of your Master’s courses but you do not earn your Bachelor’s degree by the end of the February graduation period, you will be able to take these exams in the Summer and Fall examination sessions.

Those who are enrolled in the Bachelor's degree programme for the fourth or fifth time and who will lose the suitable academic performance, if they have not passed the admission test, will not be able to enter the Master's degree programme.

Procedure

• Send the application for admission to the Master's degree via the Apply@polito platform by the deadline;
• Wait for the positive evaluation for admission to the selected Master's degree programme;
• log into the personal study plan/annual personal study plan portlet on the personal page: the Master's degree courses to be advanced will appear in the list of exams that can be included in the annual personal study plan, marked in violet (in the personal study plan the courses will not be present) and must be included in the annual personal study plan by the deadline.

For information regarding the creation of the personal study plan/annual personal study plan, please refer to the "Create your APSP" section of the A.A. 2024/25 Student Guide.

Once a positive assessment has been obtained, those who do not proceed with the advancement of the Master's degree courses in the academic year for which they have applied for admission must re-apply through the Apply@polito platform for admission in subsequent academic years.

Those who have advanced courses and do not proceed with enrolment to the Master's degree programme in the academic year for which they applied will have to re-apply through the Apply procedure to enrol in subsequent academic years.

PLEASE NOTE: having anticipated the Master's degree courses does NOT mean that you will automatically be enrolled in the course once you have obtained your first-level degree: enrolment must be completed from the Apply@polito platform's EVALUATIONS section by respecting the deadlines (see deadlines section).

For the purposes of admission to the Master's Degree Course in Systemic Design, a Commission for the evaluation of personal preparation is set up and appointed by decree of the Rector.

Applicants with specific learning disability can request adequate support writing a ticket to the staff of the Special Needs Unit that deals with support services to students (Disabilità e DSA | Presentazione) 

If the Evaluation Committee finds that an applicant has to make up for some unfilled academic requirements and he/she passes the admission test, the test result will be valid  until the following academic year.  

All those who have obtained eligibility, whose need for curricular integration has not been identified, and who do not proceed with enrolment or with the advancement of the Master's degree courses in the academic year for which they have applied, will have to re-apply through the Apply procedure and take the admission test again for access in subsequent academic years.

The results of the admission tests will be published on the Apply@polito personal page of each applicant in the "Evaluation" session.

Admission test to the Master's degree programme in Systemic Design

The evaluation of the suitable academic performance considers the result of the written test, the score attributed to the curriculum and the portfolio and the score attributed to possible other skills

The maximum score is 100/100 divided as follows:

• Written test (maximum score: 50/100)
  The written test, which is structured with closed-ended questions, is designed to test the candidate's ability to critically examine the work carried out in an academic, business or professional context and his or her preparation and aptitude in the following subject areas:
  • Representation/design
  • Methodology of Design studio and  environmental sustainability 
  • Theory and History of Design
  • Digital culture
  • Technologies of Production and Materials

The test will last one hour and thirty minutes and will take place in person.

All applicants who must take the admission test will receive an email with attached documents containing alla the operational details (necessary IT equipment, platform to be used and other useful information).

• Curriculum and portfolio (maximum score: 40/100)
  to be uploaded, in pdf format, while filling out the application form.
  The curriculum and portfolio seek to verify the coherence, the detailed study and the kind of planning activities developed both in the educational/academic and in the private/professional field.
   
• Other skills (maximum score: 10/100)
  to be uploaded, in pdf format, while filling outthe application form.
  The Evaluation Committee will also consider other qualifications possibly presented (participation to exhibitions, stages, publications etc) in order to verify the eligibility and completeness of the competence in the field concerning the subjects about the design project. 

he minimum score to pass the test is 60/100.  

Room, date and timetable of the test are published in the deadlines section.
The result of the test will be published  within the date specified in the deadlines section.