Requirements for applicants from other universities a. y. 2024/25

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

Curricular requirements for access to the master's degree program are the possession of a degree obtained in the following classes (or other degree obtained abroad deemed eligible under Art. 6 c.2 ex D.M. 270/04):

or, alternatively, knowledge acquired in the previous educational path expressed in the form of free credits referring to specific scientific-disciplinary fields or groups of them.
 

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

The course 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 of a teaching course may then be counted towards meeting the minimum number of credits in both groups.

Within the limit of 10 cfu the Course Coordinator may admit the candidate; if the number of missing credits is higher than 10 cfu the evaluation will be submitted to the final approval of the Course Coordinator or Vice-Coordinator.

Applications from graduates or students coming from degree programmes of another class will be subject to evaluation. In the event that curricular requirements are not met, curricular additions will be identified.

Any curricular integrations identified by the evaluator must be filled prior to enrolment in the Master's degree programme.

In order to make up the curricular integration, in the event that it is less than or equal to 60 credits, the candidate must enrol in the single courses for unfulfilled academic requirements and subsequently attend the courses and sit the relative exams: this enrolment may only include in the annual personal study plan the courses assigned by the evaluator as an unfulfilled academic requirement.

Successful completion of the admission test will allow, exclusively for candidates who must complete the curricular integration, access also to the academic year following the one for which the admission test was taken (in any case after taking the exams relating to the curricular integration).

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

Applicants from other universities (not Università degli Studi di Torino)

You must have a weighted average grade equal to or greater than 25/30, regardless of how may years it took you to graduate. The weighted average is calculated on all credits with a grade in thirtieths acquired and useful for a first degree with the exclusion of the worst 28 credits, without any rounding.

  Applicants fromUniversità degli studi di Torino

The following applicants can be admitted to our Master's degree programmes:

- time to graduation is equal to or lower than 4 years ⁽¹⁾ regardless of the weighted average grade

- time to graduation is greater than 4 years but lower than or equal to 5 years ⁽¹⁾ with weighted average grade equal to or greater than 24/30

-time to graduation is greater than 5 years with weighted average grade⁽²⁾ equal to or greater than 25/30

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 and is calculated on all credits with a grade in thirtieths acquired and useful for a first degree with the exclusion of the worst 28 credits, without any rounding.

2. Admission test (Interview)

For all students who do not meet the required curricular requirements (verification of the weighted average grade), there is an interview to verify their personal preparation.

The outcome of the admission test will be announced on the personal page of the APPLY@polito platform.

Enrolment

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 future academic years. 

It is necessary to hold an English language certificate of B2 level, as defined by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). In order to achieve del conseguimento level B2 English language, the table of certifications substituting or exempting possession of IELTS 5.5 certification is considered.

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 course.

Cases of exemption

• IB Diploma (International Baccalaureate) 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 certificate, you can still send your application, but you will need to enter the certificate by the deadline for online registration. For further information on checking certificates, please see the dedicated section: Online application - language skills

Those who do not meet the language requirement by the deadline for enrolment from the 1st semester will be able to enrol in single courses by enrolling in the courses of the 1st semester of the 1st year of the Master's degree programme for which they have been assessed as ‘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, for which a reduced fee will be charged.

As soon as the English language certificate is obtained, it will be possible to register for the Master's degree by 24^th February 2025, with automatic validation of the courses attended/passed. Courses in the 1^st semester that were not included at the time of enrolment may not be integrated at a later date.

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.