Requirements for students of Politecnico di Torino a.y. 2025/26

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

You are automatically admitted to a Master’s degree program (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.

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 merit-based evaluation (suitable academic performance)

If you don't meet the admission requirements for direct admission, you need to go through a merit-based evaluation. You must upload a portfolio to the Apply@polito platform before submitting your application.

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

Considering that you can submit your application for admission to Master's degree programmes 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 submit your portfolio 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.

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

A curricular requirement is the possession of a Bachelor's degree in class L-17 (or class 4 ex D.M. 509/99) or a three-year Bachelor's degree or university diploma, or other suitable academic qualification obtained outside Italy, recognized suitable according to the art. 6 c. 2 of 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.

The verification of the curricular requirements can have as outcomes the admission, the non-admission  or the admission with condition subject to the obligation to fill your curricular gaps by taking some courses assigned by the Teaching Committee.

Applicants from degree classes other than L-17: if the Teaching Committee recommends you take some courses to make up for your unfulfilled academic requirements (60 credits or below), you must pass these exams before submitting your portfolio for admission to a Master’s degree program.  You need to enrol in Single courses for unfulfilled academic requirements: with this type of enrolment you can include in your Personal Study Plan only the courses assigned by the Teaching Committee.

Please check the tables below to find out, for each Master's Degree Programme of Politecnico di Torino and for each ordinamento (system), which Bachelor's degree programmes qualifies you for admission (continuing programmes).

Students or graduated ex D.M. 270/04

Students or graduated ex D.M. 509/99

You can apply for admission even if your Bachelor’s degree does not meet the above-mentioned requirements. In this case, the competent Teaching Committee will identify your unfulfilled academic requirements. You can make up for your unfulfilled academic requirements by enrolling in single courses. You will have to attend these courses and pass the exams. 

You can be admitted to the Master's degree programme only after you pass these exams and the merit-based evaluation.

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;
• overall quality;
• 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.

It is possible to write the portfolio in English or in Italian.

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

The result of the evaluation of the portfolio will be published in the section "Evaluations” of the Apply@polito portlet within the deadline specified in the deadline section.

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 Committee 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 scaling;
• 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.
• knowledge of real estate subjects’ theories and tools for Architecture and Urban planning.

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.
• knowledge of real estate subjects’ theories and tools for Architecture and urban planning.

Architecture for heritage

For the Master’s degree programme in Architecture for heritage, the Admissions Committee 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.

If you are a Bachelor’s student at Politecnico di Torino and you are going to graduate after the September 2025 graduation period (December 2025 or February 2026), 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 portfolio merit-based evaluation.

*Please note that these 23 unearned credits cannot include any courses related to Laboratories or Studios/Atelier.

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; 
• those who advance courses of the Master's degree programme in the Collegio di Architettura and are allocate according to the merit ranking to Introductory Seminars in English, will have to attend them even in the absence of English language knowledge certification;
• 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 transcript 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 wait for the portfolio evaluation.
• 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 course for the fourth or fifth time and who will lose the requirements of the suitable academic performance, in the event that they have not passed the merit evaluation of the portfolio, will not be able to enter the Master's degree programme

PROCEDURE TO ADVANCE COURSES

• 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 PSP" section of theA.A. 2025/26 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 Master's degree programme 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)

To those who have earned a Bachelor's degree other than Politecnico di Torino, is 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. Furthermore, it is necessary to pass the admission test.

The result of the admission test will be published on your personal page – “Evaluations” session - of the Apply@polito platform.

(the weighted average grade ⁽¹⁾ is calculated on all accrued course credits (graded on a scale of 30) counting towards the achievement of the Bachelor’s degree, without the 28 worst credits. Please note that numbers are not rounded. 

Coloro che hanno ottenuto l'idoneità, cui non è stata individuata la necessità di integrazioni curriculari, e non procedono con l'immatricolazione alla Laurea magistrale dovranno ricandidarsi attraverso la procedura Apply per l'accesso nel secondo periodo didattico o in anni accademici successivi e sostenere nuovamente la prova di ammissione.

Those who have been granted eligibility, whose need for curricular integration has not been identified, and who do not proceed with enrolment in the Master's degree programme in the academic year for which they have applied for admission will have to re-apply through the Apply procedure for access in the second semester or in subsequent academic years, taking the admission test again.

PLEASE NOTE: those coming from the inter-university degree course with the University of Parma in Design sostenibile per il Sistema alimentare (Administrative seat: University of Parma) must refer to the chapter “Suitable academic performance” - Requirements for students at the Politecnico di Torino.

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).

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. 

The 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. 

If you are a Bachelor’s student at Politecnico di Torino and you are going to graduate after the September 2025 graduation period (December 2025 or February 2026), it is possible to include courses in the annual personal study plan of the 1st semester of the 1st 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 31st 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. 2025/26 Student Guide.

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

Those who have obtained eligibility and do not proceed with enrolment or with the advancement of the Master's degree courses will have to re-apply through the Apply procedure for access in the second semester or subsequent academic years and, if necessary, take the admission test again.

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.

If you are a Bachelor’s student at Politecnico di Torino and you are going to graduate after the September 2025 graduation period (December 2025 or February 2026), it is possible to include courses in the annual personal study plan of the 1st semester of the 1st 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 31st 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.

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. 2025/26 Student Guide.

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 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 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.

Each student's training duration will be assessed on the basis of the number of academic years of enrolment, which is calculated by considering equal to 1 for each year of full-time enrolment and equal to 0.5 for each 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)

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.

Those who have obtained eligibility and do not proceed with enrolment or with the advancement of the Master's degree courses will have to re-apply through the Apply procedure for access in the second semester or subsequent academic years and, if necessary, take the admission test again.

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).

The commission for the evaluation of personal preparation for the admission to the master's degree program in Urban and Regional Planning is appointed by Rectoral Decree.    

Those with disabilities or specific learning disabilities (DSA) may request appropriate support by contacting via ticket the staff of the Special Needs Unit that manages student support services (https://www.polito.it/en/education/services-and-life-at-politecnico/welcome-inclusion-and-support/inclusive-teaching).

In the event that the need to fill curricular supplements is identified, for the purpose of enrollment, any eligibility acquired as a result of passing the admission test (interview) will be held until the following academic year.

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

Admission test results will be published on the Apply personal page - “ Evaluations” section.

Admission Test

The test consists of an interview aimed at evaluating the adequacy of the personal preparation of the applicant(s).

The topics of the interview refer to “fields” of knowledge that characterize the education considered necessary to successfully follow the Master's degree course:   

• fundamentals of urban and regiona planning; 
• institutional system for land governance;  ;  
• sustainable local development; 
• spatial information systems.

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

The result of the test will be announced by the deadline indicated in the deadlines section.

• If you are a Bachelor’s student at Politecnico di Torino and you are going to graduate after the September 2025graduation period (December 2025 or February 2026), it is possible to include courses in the annual personal study plan of the 1st semester of the 1st 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.
• 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 31st 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.
• 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. 2025/26 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.

*Please note that these 23 unearned credits cannot include any courses related to Laboratories or Studios/Atelier.

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:

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

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).

Possession of the curricular requirements for admission to the Course of Study is automatically verified for those who hold a Bachelor's degree or Master's degree from courses in the following degree classes:

D.M. 270/04:
L-17, Scienze dell'architettura;
L-21, Scienze della pianificazione territoriale, urbanistica, paesaggistica e ambientale;
L-23 Scienze e tecniche dell'edilizia;
L-25 Scienze e tecnologie agrarie e forestali,
LM‐4 Architettura e ingegneria edile.


 

D.M. 509/99:
Classe 4, Scienze dell'architettura e dell'ingegneria edile;
Classe 7 Urbanistica e scienze della pianificazione territoriale e ambientale;
Classe 20 Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Agroalimentari e Forestali.

Fulfilment of the curricular requirements for access to the Course of Study is also automatically verified for those who have obtained a Bachelor's degree in other degree classes in Italy or abroad provided that they have acquired at least 45 CFUs in the following scientific-disciplinary fields:

AGR/02 – Agronomia e coltivazioni erbacee
AGR/03 – Arboricoltura generale e coltivazioni arboree
AGR/04 – Orticoltura e floricoltura
AGR/05 – Assestamento forestale e selvicoltura
AGR/08 – Idraulica agraria e sistemazioni idraulico-forestali
AGR/09 – Meccanica agraria
AGR/10 – Costruzioni rurali e territorio agroforestale
AGR/11 – Entomologia generale e applicata
AGR/12 – Patologia Vegetale
AGR/13 – Chimica agraria
AGR/14 – Pedologia
BIO/03  – Botanica ambientale e applicata
BIO/07  – Ecologia
GEO/04 – Geografia fisica e geomorfologia
GEO/05 – Geologia applicata
ICAR/06 – Topografia e cartografia
ICAR/07 – Geotecnica
ICAR/12 – Tecnologia dell'architettura
ICAR/14 – Composizione architettonica e urbana
ICAR/15 – Architettura del paesaggio
ICAR/17 – Disegno e rappresentazione
ICAR/18 – Storia dell’architettura
ICAR/20 – Tecnica urbanistica
ICAR/21 – Pianificazione urbanistica
INF/01 – Informatica
ING-INF/05 – Sistemi di elaborazione delle informazioni

Within the limit of 10 cfu the Course Coordinator may deem the curricular requirement to have been met with the indication of any tied courses; if the number of missing credits is greater than 10 cfu the assessment will be subject to final approval by the Course Coordinator or Vice-Coordinator.

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, students must enrol in the in Single course enrolment for unfulfilled curricular 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.

Passing the admission test (interview) will allow, exclusively for those who have to complete the curricular integration, access also to the academic year following the one for which the admission test was taken (in any case after passing the exams relating to the curricular integration).

Once the curricular requirements have been met, the methods for verifying the adequacy of personal preparation are as follows:

Verification of weighted average marks
Admission test (interview)

1. Verification of weighted average marks

Candidates for whom the weighted average(1) of the examinations is greater than or equal to 24/30 regardless of the number of years taken to obtain the qualification are eligible, without the need to pass the admission interview, after having submitted their application via the Apply procedure.

The weighted average is calculated on all credits with a grade in thirtieths acquired and useful for obtaining the degree without any rounding.

In the case of career shortening, the calculation of years must be increased in proportion to the number of CFUs validated (10-60 CFUs =1 year, etc.).

(1) the weighted average is obtained by summing (grades x credits) / sum of credits.

2. Admission test (interview)

In the event that personal suitability is not met by means of the weighted average test, as described above, an admission interview is scheduled. 

The outcome of the admission interview will be announced on the personal page of the APPLY procedure.

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 take the interview 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 this opportunity so that you have an additional chance to be admitted if your average grade decreases or your time to graduation increases.

Those who have obtained eligibility and do not proceed with enrolment or with the advancement of the Master's degree courses will have to re-apply through the Apply procedure for access in subsequent academic years and, if necessary, take the admission test again.

The commission for the evaluation of personal preparation for the admission to the master's degree program in Urban and Regional Planning is appointed by Rectoral Decree.    

Those with disabilities or specific learning disabilities (DSA) may request appropriate support by contacting via ticket the staff of the Special Needs Unit that manages student support services. 

In the event that the need to fill curricular supplements is identified, for the purpose of enrollment, any eligibility acquired as a result of passing the admission test (interview) will be held until the following academic year.

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

Admission test results will be published on the Apply personal page - “ Evaluations” section.

In the event that the average requirement is not met, there will be an interview with a specially appointed committee that will decide on the possibility of admission. The interview will focus on the following fields of knowledge

- landscape architecture, with particular reference to the design of urban open space
- landscape history and culture;
- plant ecology.

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

The result of the test will be announced by the deadline indicated in the deadlines section.

If you are a Bachelor’s student at Politecnico di Torino and you are going to graduate after the September 2024 graduation period (December 2025 or February 2026), it is possible to include courses in the annual personal study plan of the 1st semester of the 1st 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 transcript by 31st 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.

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. 2025/26 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).