Applicants with a non-Italian qualification
To apply for admission to a Master’s degree programme, you must:
- hold a Bachelor's degree (level 6 EQF) or an equivalent academic qualification (see below) corresponding to the Italian qualification Laurea, awarded by an accredited foreign university and giving access to second-cycle courses (level EQF 7)
- applicants with an “equivalent academic qualification” are students enrolled in a foreign university in a 5 or 6-year degree programme - i.e. single cycle degree combining Bachelor's and Master's programme - who have not graduated yet but meet the minimum requirement of 15 years of global schooling (minimum 3 years at University level) and have earned at least 180 ECTS credits or equivalent (pre-university or preparatory years are not counted in the number of credits or years)
- meet the specific curricular requirements and have an academic performance considered suitable for admission to the Master's degree programme you wish to apply for. An Academic Committee will verify if your educational background is adequate and whether the programme is consistent with your previous university studies. Please check the A. Y. 2025/2026 SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
- meet the language requirements
Deadlines for the Admission Procedure A.Y. 2025/2026
1st Call – 1st semester
- Opening: 19/12/2024
- Closing: 30/01/2025
- Results: 31/03/2025
2nd Call – 1st semester
- Opening: 03/03/2025
- Closing: 03/04/2025, ore 14:00 (ora italiana)
- Results: 06/06/2025
3rd CALL – 2nd semester
Call reserved for EU applicants and non-EU applicants residing in Italy
- Opening: 03/11/2025
- Closing: 03/12/2025 at 14:00 Italian time
- Results: 30/01/2026
Only for all Engineering Master's degree programmes, Master's degree programme in Systemic Design, Master's degree programme in Urban and Regional Planning, Master's degree programme in Digital skills for sustainable societal transition
Please read carefully the following relevant documents:
Guidelines for enrolment to Master degree programs
ONLINE ENROLMENT PERIOD – 1st SEMESTER
Opening date: 10 July 2025 – Closing date: 2 October 2025
ONLINE ENROLMENT DEADLINE – 2nd SEMESTER
Only for EU and non-EU candidates residing in Italy
Opening date: 1 December 2025 – Closing date: 27 March 2026 please contact the Admissions and Tuition Fees Unit via the Ticketing service.
SUBMISSION OF MANDATORY DOCUMENTS FOR ENROLMENT:
The following documents must be uploaded to your personal area on the Teaching Portal > Online Student Services > Attachments by 2 October 2025. The uploaded documents will be verified by 11 November 2025.
Please note: the deadline to upload the Study visa – type D is 28 November 2025.
COMPULSORY ENROLMENT DOCUMENTS
- Passport (or I.D. for EU students)
- Residence permit for NON-EU citizens living in Italy
- Study visa – type D for NON-EU citizens not living in Italy
- Fiscal code certificate issued by Agenzia delle Entrate or by the Italian Embassies (certificate issued by Agenzia delle Entrate or by the Italian Embassies (only for citizens not living in Italy)
- Bachelor Degree (level 6 EQF) with official translation into Italian (translation is not necessary in case original certificates are in English, French, Spanish or if you hold the Diploma Supplement). If you were enrolled in a single cycle Laurea magistrale course (5 or 6 years degree program) and you have not graduated yet: Transcript of Records at least of the first 3 academic years (in case of high school diploma got after 11 years, Transcript of Records of the first 4 academic years)
- Transcript of Records with official translation into Italian (translation is not necessary in case original certificates are in English, French, Spanish)
- Declaration of Value (Dichiarazione di Valore, see paragraph below) of Bachelor Degree issued by the Italian Embassy in the country that issued your degree or Statement of Comparability issued by CIMEA centre or others ENIC-NARIC centers (this applies only in the absence of services provided by CIMEA), or Diploma Supplement. The so called “Attestato di Corrispondenza” (Certificate of Correspondence) obtained on the ARDI platform substitutes the Statement of Comparability issued by CIMEA and the Declaration of Value. In any case, please note that the correspondence assessment reported in ARDI is based on the foreign qualification as a whole and not on individual cases. For this reason, Politecnico reserves itself the right to ask the applicant additional documents for the verification of his/her non-Italian qualification (such as the CIMEA Statement of Verification). For this reason, applicants are encouraged to present the CIMEA Statement of Verification in order to speed up the evaluation process
- Italian and/or English Language certificate already uploaded during the application process (see Language Requirements section)
We remind you that Politecnico di Torino is entitled to request students to show their original documents to the office front desk at any time.
DOCUMENTS TRANSLATION AND LEGALIZATION
"Official translation" means a translation that bears the stamp and original signature of an officially recognized translator.
Translations into Italian must be:
- Certified by the Italian Embassy in the country of issue OR
- Sworn by a Court in Italy
For information on the legalization of documents, you can consult the following page: CIMEA GLOSSARY