Graduating
Read the Regulations carefully for information on:
- the types of theses that can be presented
- how to determine the admission score for the final exam
- assessment criteria for the final exam
To be admitted to the final exam, students must do upload a digital copy of the thesis in PDF/A format by accessing - from UNIMIA -> SIFA Online Services -> Administrative services -> graduation application -> Thesis upload.
You cannot apply for graduation without uploading the thesis within the deadline.
Create a PDF/A file of your thesis starting from a Word or LibreOffice document (follow instructions on the video tutorial).
To be awarded a bachelor's or master's degree students may sit the final exam on set dates distributed in three sessions and four rounds minimum each year:
- first session: from May to July
- second session: from September to December
- third session: from February to April
Students who graduate by the third session of academic year need not pay the first instalment for next academic year.
To graduate students must:
- Be current with tuition and fees until the last year of enrolment
- Pass all the exams required by your last approved study plan, within the deadlines
- Agree on the thesis title with your supervisor before applying for graduation
- Apply for graduation and pay the graduation fee
- Fill in the upcoming graduate survey
- Comply with programme-specific formalities and deadlines for each session
The graduation application must be submitted online by the deadline set for your session. Do not hand it in to the Student Registrar.
Payment
The payment of the € 116.00 graduation fee (including the € 16.00 stamp duty) may be made through Pago PA:
- when submitting the online application, or
- after submitting the graduation application, through the payment service
Upcoming graduate survey
Upcoming graduates are required to fill in the survey within the term set for each session.
You can access the survey only after submitting the graduation application.
Failure to fill in the survey by the deadline will result in exclusion from the graduation session.
Deadlines, procedures and graduation calendars
Deadlines, calendars and procedures are different depending on the degree programme.
Each application is valid for a single exam session.
Students who forfeit an exam must promptly notify the Registrar through the Informastudenti Service. Students must submit another application through the online procedure, indicating the newly chosen exam session.
Once paid, the graduation fee is valid for the new session also. Postponements are not allowed.
- Final exams: from 8 to 19 July 2024
- Online application for graduation: from 29 April to 24 May 2024
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 25 May 2024
- Deadline for completing exams: 21 June 2024
- Online thesis submission: within 21 June 2024
- Final exams: from 7 to 31 October 2024
- Online application for graduation: from 15 July to 6 September 2024
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 7 September 2024
- Deadline for completing exams: within 13 September 2024
- Online thesis submission: within h 23:59 of the 20 September 2024
- Final exams: from 17 to 28 February 2025
- Online application for graduation: from 18 November to 20 December 2024
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 21 December 2024
- Deadline for completing exams: 22 January 2025
- Online thesis submission: within h 23:59 of 22 January 2025
- Final exams: from 24 March to 16 April 2025
- Online application for graduation: from 7 to 31 January 2025
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 1 February 2025
- Deadline for completing exams: within 28 February 2025
- Online thesis submission: within h 23:59 of 21 February 2025