Requirements for students of Politecnico di Torino a. y. 2024/25

The curricular requirements of the applicants will be verified by a specific Committee through the Apply@polito platform.

The curricular requirements for admission to this programme are a degree obtained in the following classes (or other qualification obtained abroad deemed suitable pursuant to art.6 c.2 ex DM 270/04):

or, alternatively, the competencies and knowledge you have gained during your Bachelor’s studies (in terms of credits related to specific Scientific Disciplinary Fields or to groups of Scientific Disciplinary Fields).

It is mandatory to have acquired a minimum of credits as specified in the table:

When the credits of a certain Scientific Disciplinary Field are present both for 1^st GROUP and for 2^nd GROUP, they are counted for 1^st GROUP. Residual credits are counted for 2^nd GROUP. Therefore, the credits of a course can be split in two parts and calculated separately to reach both the minimum credit threshold for 1^st GROUP and for 2^nd GROUP.

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.

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). Otherwise, it will be necessary to submit a new application for access to the following academic years. 

If you meet the curricular requirements, we will verify if your academic performance is suitable for admission in the following ways:

1. . Verification of the weighted average of all grades
2. Admission test (Interview)

1. Verification of the weighted average of all grades

The following applicants are admitted to the programme without taking any admission test (provided that they submit thier application on the Apply@polito platform):

-the duration of the training course is less than or equal to 4 years ⁽¹⁾ regardless of the average;

- the duration of the training course is greater than 4 years but less than or equal to 5 years ⁽¹⁾ and the weighted average ⁽²⁾ of the exams is greater than or equal to 24/30;

-the duration of the training course is more than 5 years and the weighted average ⁽²⁾ of the exams is greater than or equal to 25/30.

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 tota duration of the students' academic studies for the purposes of admission to the Master's degree programme for academic year 2021/2022 and following years.

The weighted average is calculated on all credits with a grade out of thirty and useful for the attainment of the first level degree with the exclusion of the worst 28 credits without any rounding.

The duration of each student's educational path is assessed on the basis of the number of academic years of enrollment starting from the first enrollment in the Italian university system: for students enrolled full-time, the duration coincides with the number of academic years of enrollment, while for part-time students, the duration is evaluated considering half a year of enrollment for each annual part-time enrollment. For students enrolled full-time, belonging to the "Dual Career" program, the duration is evaluated, as for part-time students, considering half a year of enrollment for each annual enrollment.

In case of career shortening, the calculation of the years must be increased in proportion to the number of validated credits (10-60 credits = 1 year, etc.). The worst 28 credits must be subtracted proportionally to the number of recognized credits.

⁽¹⁾ The last useful session to meet the average requirement is the December graduation session.

⁽²⁾ The weighted average is obtained from the sum (marks x credits) / sum of credits.

2.Admission test (Interview)

In the event that the adequacy of the academic performance is not met by means of the weighted average test, as described above, a follow-up interview is scheduled.

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 and pass the admission test in the following academic years.  

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).

The Committees in charge of evaluating applicants's academic performance for admission to the Master's degree programmes offered by Collegio of "Pianificazione e progettazione" are appointed with decree of the Rector. 

Applicants with disability and applicants  with specific learning disability (DSA) can request adequate support writing a ticket to the staff of the Special Needs Unit that deals with support services to students. 

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.  

If an admitted applicant does not enrol or does not advance any Master's courses in the academic year for which he/she has applied, he/she wil have to apply again and retake the admission test to be eligible in the following 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 for the Master's degree programme in Digital skills for sustainable societal transitions

The test consists of an interview that will assess the applicant's academic performance.
The topics of the interview refer to "fields" of knowledge that characterize the training considered necessary to successfully attend the master's degree programme.

The interview will focus on the following topics:

• action programs for achieving the sustainable development goals;
• strategies and initiatives for the digital transition in urban agendas;
• basic elements of information technology;
• elements of territorial information systems.

Room, date and time of the test are published in the deadlines section.

The results of the test will be announced within the deadline indicated in the deadlines section.