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For admission to a Master's degree programme at Politecnico di Torino you are required to:

  • have a three-year Bachelor's degree or university diploma, or other educational qualification obtained outside Italy and recognized as suitable for admission;
  • meet the curricular requirements;
  • have an academic performance considered suitable for admission;
  • have an English language certificate (B2 level or above).

The following Master’s degree programmes are exceptions to this rule. Admission to these programmes are regulated by specific Calls for applications that you can find in the News section of the website.

  • Industrial Production Engineering and Technological Innovation
  • Physics of Complex Systems (international pathway)
  • Nanotechnologies for ICTs (Micro and Nanotechnologies for Integrated Systems (MNIS) pathway)

     

If you have a Bachelor’s degree awarded by another Italian university, you must have a weighted average grade of all the exams equal to or greater than 24/30 to be admitted to a Master's degree programme at Polito (regardless of the number of years it took you to graduate), except for the Master's degree programme in Ingegneria Gestionale/Engineering and Management, which requires an average grade equal or greater than 25/30.  

Average grade required for all the programmes except for Ingegneria Gestionale/Engineering and Management≥ 24
Average grade required for Ingegneria Gestionale/Engineering and Management≥  25

Please note that Politecnico does not admit applicants whose average grades are below the required thresholds (even slightly below) as numbers will not be rounded.

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.
The weighted average is calculated as follows: ∑(grade*credits) / ∑credits

There are no admission tests for applicants who do not have the required average grade, except for the following Master's degree programmes:

  • Communications Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronic Engineering
  • ICT for Smart Societies
  • Materials Engineering
  • Nanotechnologies for ICTs
  • Civil Engineering

Below you can find a summary of the rules and admission procedures for applicants with an insufficient average grade for the above-mentioned  programmes. TABLE.

The details of the required credits/Scientific Disciplinary Fields are published in the following TABLE and in the Academic Regulations of each Master’s degree programme.

For admission to a Master's degree programme: 

  • you must have a Bachelor’s degree in a specific “degree class” (classe di laurea)

or, else, 

  • you must have earned a minimum number of credits in specific Scientific Disciplinary Fields (SSD) divided in: 
    • first group: minimum 40 credits in specific Scientific Disciplinary Fields (SSD) (45 credits for the Master’s degree programme in Mathematical Engineering)
    • second group: minimum 60 credits in specific Scientific Disciplinary Fields (SSD)


Each course can be associated to one or more Scientific Disciplinary Fields (SSD). The credits of the SSD found both in the first group and in the second group are primarily counted for the first group. The remaining ones are counted for the second group. The credits of the same subject can be counted partly to reach the minimum number of credits of the first group and partly to reach the minimum number of credits of the second group.

If you lack less than 10 credits the supervisor in charge of the evaluation will consider if there are similarities among the Scientific Disciplinary Fields and provide guidance. If you lack more than 10 credits, the evaluation of the similarities will be subject to the final approval of the Coordinator or the Vice coordinator of the degree programme.

The time required for the evaluation of your application depends on the supervisor who conducts the evaluation. If you have chosen a Master's degree programme that is different from your Bachelor's degree programme, the result of the evaluation will be available in about 10-20 days.

If you do not meet the curricular requirements, you will have to make up for your unfulfilled curricular requirements (missing credits) before you enrol in the Master’s degree programme you have chosen. You can choose between:  

  • enrolment in single courses to make up for your unfulfilled curricular requirements (check the specific section)
  • credit transfer at Bachelor’s level if your unfulfilled curricular requirements are worth more than 60 credits. 
PLEASE NOTE: in compliance with the Regulations of the degree programmes of Politecnico, the evaluation of the curricular requirements for admission to a Master's degree programme is based exclusively on the Bachelor’s degree submitted by the applicant during the application process. The Scientific Disciplinary Fields associated with the credits earned by an applicant during additional learning paths (e.g. a second Bachelor’s degree, single courses, etc.) do not count towards the credit threshold for first group or second group subjects. Single courses taken at Politecnico di Torino to make up for unfulfilled curricular requirements are an exception: the Scientific Disciplinary Fields of single courses taken at PoliTo will be automatically counted towards the attainment of the minimum number of credits required in the two groups.

If an applicant does not meet the academic requirements, it is up to the supervisor to evaluate the credits earned during other learning paths.

Please note that a professional degree (LP-01, LP-02, LP-03) does not qualify you for direct admission to a Master's degree programme.

English requirement

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

Politecnico di Torino accepts the certificates listed in the following table of certificates (accepted in substitution for IELTS 5.5) in order to assess your knowledge of English (B2 level): "Table dated 23/09/2019  and updated on 22/12/2022".

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

Cases of exemption:
  • IB Diploma (International Baccalaureate https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/) only if the entire path is taught in English, except foreign languages;
  • Educational qualifications awarded by the European schools included in the Procedures for entry, residency and enrolment of international students and the respective recognition of qualifications, for higher education courses in Italy - Attachment 2*, only if the first language (L1) is English;
  • Non-Italian qualification recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education and Merit and by the Italian Ministry of University and Research as equivalent to the Italian high school diploma (diploma di maturità), or university degree awarded by a school/university in which the medium of instruction is English and issued by USA, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, wherever the school/ university is located.
  • Non-Italian qualification recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education and Merit and by the Italian Ministry of University and Research  as equivalent to the Italian high school diploma (diploma di maturità), or higher university degree awarded by a school/university in which the medium of instruction is English, only if based in one of the countries listed below:
  • AFRICA: Botswana, Cameroon, Gambia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia.
  • ASIA: Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka.
  • CARIBBEAN AND AMERICAS: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States.
  • EUROPE: Cyprus, Malta, United Kingdom, Ireland.
  • PACIFIC: Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.
What to do if you do not have an English language certificate
  • You can try to get the English language certificate by the deadline for enrolment in the first semester, 12/11/2026 (recommended option): 
    If you think that you will be able to get your certificate before the deadline, you can start attending classes while waiting to enrol in the programme. In this case, you do not need to enrol in single courses.
  • If you cannot get the English language certificate by the deadline for enrolment in the first semester, 12/11/2026: 
    If you think that you will not be able to get your certificate before the deadline, but you meet the other admission requirements, you should enrol in single courses (check the specific section) by 12/11/2026.

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