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

If your Bachelor’s degree was awarded by a university other than Politecnico di Torino, you are required to have a weighted average grade of all the exams⁽¹⁾ equal to or greater than 24/30, regardless of how long it took you to earn your Bachelor’s degree.

You must include a portfolio in your application and you must upload it to the Apply@polito platform. The Admissions Committee will evaluate your portfolio.

The result of this evaluation will be published on your personal page of the Apply@polito platform.

⁽¹⁾ 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 curricular requirements for admission are:

• Bachelor’s degree of class L-17 (or class 4 ex D.M. 509/99), or
• three-year Bachelor's degree or university diploma, or
• other suitable academic qualification obtained outside Italy and considered suitable for admission within the meaning of art. 6 c.2 ex D.M. 270/04

Another mandatory curricular requirement is that you must have completed the compulsory courses and activities listed in the table of class L-17 of the Bachelor’s degree programmes in Architecture.

Please note: enrollment will be allowed to those who have obtained eligibility and who be awarded the Bachelor's degree by 30 September 2024.

Politecnico will assess if you meet the curricular requirements for admission through the Apply@polito portal.

Applicants coming from classes different from L-17, in the event that the integration is less than or equal to 60 ECTS, will have to fulfill curricular integrations before the submission of the portfolio to a merit-based evaluation,  enrolling to Single courses for unfulfilled academic requirements. This enroment may only include in the personal study plan lessons assigned by the Evaluator as unfulfilled academic requirements.

You are required to have an English language certificate (B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment - CEFR).

Politecnico di Torino accepts the certificates listed in the following table of certificates (accepted in substitution for IELTS 5.5) in order to assess your knowledge of English (B2 level):  https://didattica.polito.it/cla/it/certificazioni. The reference table is the “Table dated 23/09/2019 - and updated 22/12/2022”

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

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 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.

Evaluation of personal academic performance

Politecnico di Torino sets up an Admissions Committee appointed by Rector 's decree in charge of assessing if applicants’ academic performance is suitable for admission to the Master’s degree programmes offered by the Collegio di Architettura.  

The Committee verifies if applicants meet the specific admission requirements (weighted average grade and portfolio) and have the skills and inclination for the learning objectives of the Master’s degree programme they are applying for.

For this reason, within the deadline of submission of the application, you must include a portfolio (max. 20 MB) in your application and you must upload it to the Apply@polito platform.

The submission of the application is subjected to the uploading to the portfolio.

The result of this evaluation (positive or negative) is published on your personal page of the Apply@polito platform.

Evaluation criteria

Your application is assessed based on two criteria (for a maximum of 60 points):

• your weighted average grades of the exams you passed at the time of application (max 20 points)
• your portfolio content (max 40 points) – see attached instructions

The Admissions Committee evaluates your portfolio based on the following criteria:

• consistency of your portfolio with the content of the degree programme you are applying for (see evaluation specific criteria);
• novelty of content;
• argument and graphic skills;
• use of specific language consistent with the degree programme you are applying for.

The guidelines to write the portfolio (compulsory for all applicants coming from other Universities and for applicants of Politecnico di Torino who do not meet the requirements for the direct enrolment) are available here. 

The evaluations is positive if your score is ≥ 36 points..

The result of the evaluation of the portfolio will be published by  3 ^rdSeptember 2024 in the section "Evaluations” of the Apply@polito portlet.

If you are admitted to the programme (positive evaluation) and you meet the other admission requirements, you must enrol before the deadline.

Specific evaluation criteria

Architecture construction city

Regarding the Master’s Degree Program in Architecture construction city, the Admissions Commmittee will evaluate the following aspects:

• ability to control the fundamental elements of the distributive organization, of the structural and technological conception of an architectonical project;
• ability to use the basic technical means and the ways of representation of the architectural design;
• control of the basic means needed to read the morphological and technical aspects of architectural works in their different scalings;
• mastery of the specific languages of the architectonical project and the historical-critical sciences related to Architecture;
• knowledge of the principles of Technical Physic;
• prior knowledge of the principles of Urban planning;
• ability to read and describe the multidimensionality of the urban phenomena related to an architectonical project.

It is also possible to write the portfolio in English.

Architecture for heritage

For the Master’s degree programme in Architecture for heritage, the Admissions Commmittee will evaluate the following aspects:

• ability to design in architectural and urban scaling related to a configured context;
• basic skills in heritage preservation;
• appropriate knowledge of History of Architecture;
• knowledge of the tools and forms of representation of architecture;
• knowledge of Architecture’s core technologies;
• knowledge of the principles of Technical Physic;
• knowledge of real estate subjects theories and tools for Architecture and Urban planning.

It is also possible to write the portfolio in English.

Architecture for sustainability

For the Master’s degree programme in Architecture for sustainability, the Admissions Commmittee will evaluate the following aspects:

• ability to critically interpret an architectural and urban project;
• ability to describe the phenomena related to architectural planning;
• grasp of specific language of architecture;
• skills in graphic representation;
• prior knowledge of architecture’s breakthrough technologies;
• knowledge of the principles of Technical Physic;
• prior knowledge of the principles of sustainability used in architecture.

It is also possible to write the portfolio in English.