Requirements for students of Politecnico di Torino a.y. 2026/27

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.

Only for those who have citizenship in one of the countries listed the 2025/26 academic year is not taken into account when calculating the duration and average grade required for admission.

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 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.

An average score even slightly lower than that required for admission will not be taken into consideration for admission, as rounding is not performed.

⁽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.

The guidelines to write the portfolio are available here.

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.

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.

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.

You may submit your portfolio in Italian or English. The submission of the application is subjected to the uploading to the portfolio.

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.

Specific evaluation criteria

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

The Admissions Committee 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

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.

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. 

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.

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).

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 Admissions 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 Admissions Committee.

If you are a Bachelor’s student at Politecnico di Torino and you are going to graduate after the September 2026 graduation period (December 2026 or February 2027), 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 by the "anticipo LM" Status (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 the a.y. 2026/27 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).

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.

Only for those who have citizenship in one of the countries listed the 2025/26 academic year is not taken into account when calculating the duration and average grade required for admission.

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 must pass the admission test.

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.

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).

Admission test
Room, date and timetable of the test are published in the deadlines section.
The test will last one hour and thirty minutes and will take place in person.

Evaluation criteria
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
• 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 out the 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.  

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

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 for admission in the second semester or in subsequent academic years and, if necessary, retake the admission test.

Curricular requirements are verified through the Apply procedure.

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). You will have to re-apply through the Apply procedure for access in subsequent academic years.

If you are a Bachelor’s student at Politecnico di Torino and you are going to graduate after the September 2026 graduation period (December 2026 or February 2027), 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 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 passed the admission test 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 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 by the "anticipo LM" Status (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 the a.y. 2026/27 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).

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.

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). You will have to re-apply through the Apply procedure for access in subsequent academic years.

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

Direct admission
Direct admission is granted to those who:

- 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.

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.

Only for those who have citizenship in one of the countries listed the 2025/26 academic year is not taken into account when calculating the duration and average grade required for admission.

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⁾ 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.

If the suitable academic performance is not met by means of verification of the weighted average, as described above, an admission test is required.

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.

Evaluation methods and criteria
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 admission tests will be published on the Apply@polito personal page of each applicant in the "Evaluation" section.

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 for admission in the second semester or in subsequent academic years and, if necessary, retake the admission test.

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 you are a Bachelor’s student at Politecnico di Torino and you are going to graduate after the September 2026 graduation period (December 2026 or February 2027), 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 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 passed the admission test 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 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 by the "anticipo LM" Status (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 the a.y. 2026/27 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).

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.

Only for those who have citizenship in one of the countries listed the 2025/26 academic year is not taken into account when calculating the duration and average grade required for admission.

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 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.

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/summary 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/summary 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.

The evaluation of suitable academic performance and of the portfolio/summary is carried out by a special Commission appointed by Rector's Decree.

To this end, a portfolio/summary (maximum size 20 MB) must be attached to the Apply procedure by the application deadline, which will be evaluated by the commission.

The guidelines to write the portfolio/summary are available here.

You have to include your portfolio/summary in order to submit your application.

Evaluation criteria and modality
Your application is assessed based on two criteria (for a maximum of 100 points):

• your weighted average grades of the exams you passed at the time of application (max 40 points)
• your portfolio or summary content (max 60 points)

The Admissions Committee evaluates your portfolio or a brief summary of of previous educational program and work experiences based on the following criteria:

• consistency of your portfolio or a brief summary of previous educational program and work experiences with the content of the degree programme you are applying for (see the Specific evaluation criteria);
• novelty of content;
• overall quality;
• argument and graphic skills;
• use of specific language consistent with the degree programme you are applying for.

Specific evaluation criteria
The Admissions Committee will evaluate the following:

• knowledge of the main principles and theories of urban and regional planning;
• knowledge of the institutional and planning system;
• knowledge of the main principles and theories about sustainable local development;
• knowledge and skills using spatial information systems;
• ability to use the basic technical tools and the approaches of the planning and architectural design;
• ability to read and describe the multidimensionality of the urban phenomena;
• ability to read, describe, and analyse a case study, considering the specific spatial scale;
• basic knowledge of the theories and tools of disciplines related to urban planning (such as geography, urban sociology, history of the territory and architecture, evaluation, transport planning, etc.).

The evaluations is positive if your score is ≥ 60 points.

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, re-attach the portfolio/summary.

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

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.

The curricular requirements for admission to this Master's degree programme are a degree obtained in class L-21 (DM 270/04) or class 7 (DM 509/99).

Applicants holding a bachelor’s degree in a subject area other than those listed above must submit their portfolio/summary for assessment, regardless of their admission grade point average, and must have earned the minimum number of credits 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.

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.

Passing the portfolio/summary evaluation 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).

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 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;
• 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/summary 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/summary evaluation.
• those who lose the requirements of suitable academic performance, in the event that they have not obtained a positive evaluation of the portfolio/summary, will not be able to access the Master's degree course;
• 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/summary, 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 by the "anticipo LM" Status (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 the a.y. 2026/27 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).

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.

Fulfillment 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:

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).

Possession of the weighted average ⁽¹⁾ of the examinations is greater than or equal to 24/30 is required, regardless of the number of years taken to obtain the qualification.

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. 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.).

⁽¹⁾ the weighted average is calculated as follows: (grade*credits) /credits.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If you are a Bachelor’s student at Politecnico di Torino and you are going to graduate after the September 2026 graduation period (December 2026 or February 2027), 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.

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 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 passed the admission test 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.
• 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 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 by the "anticipo LM" Status (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 the a.y. 2026/27 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).