Admission requirements for the Master's Degree (LM) in Economics and Data Science (EDS)

Check of curricular requirements

Check the Teaching Rules of ths Master Course (art. 2).

Students with Italian Degree

If you have an Italian degree in Economics  (L-33) or Business Science (L 18), or an equivalent Italian qualification, your curricular admission requirements are automatically recognized.

If you have any other Italian Degree, you must submit the Application for Assessment of Curricular Requirements.

Curricular Requirements are:

  • at least 40 ECTS in the SSDs: SECS-P/01 SECS-P/02, SECS-P/03, SECS-P/04, SECS-P/05, SECS-P/06, SECS-P/12; SECS-P/07, SECS-P/08, SECS-P/09, SECS-P/10, SECS-P/11, ING-IND/35; SECS-S/01, SECS-S/02, SECS-S/03, SECS- S/04, SECS-S/05, SECS-S/06, MAT/01, MAT/02,MAT/03, MAT/04, MAT/05, MAT/06, MAT/07, MAT/08, MAT/09, INF/01, ING-INF/05

It will be checked whether candidates comply with the following sub-constraints:

  • 9 ECTS in the SSDs: SECS-P/01 SECS-P/02, SECS-P/03, SECS-P/04, SECS-P/05, SECS-P/06, SECS-P/12;

  • 6 ECTS in the SSDs: SECS-P/07, SECS-P/08, SECS-P/09, SECS-P/10, SECS-P/11, ING-IND/35;

  • 9 ECTS in the SSDs: SECS-S/06, MAT/01, MAT/02, MAT/03, MAT/04, MAT/05, MAT/06, MAT/07, MAT/08, MAT/09, INF/01, ING-INF/05;

  • 6 ECTS in the SSDs: SECS-S/01, SECS-S/02, SECS-S/03, SECS- S/04, SECS-S/05.

The Selection Commettee communicates the outcome within 30 days.
If you obtain assessment, you must pre-enroll and take an oral interview.

Candidates who do not meet the above sub-constraints will have to take the admission test for the groups of subjects for which the sub-constraint is not met (even with a bachelor's degree grade above 99).

Please note: Also undergraduate students who have passed all the exams may submit the Application for Assessment of Curricular Requirements.

Students with foreign degree

If you are an Italian, European student, or a non-EU student with Italian residence you must follow the procedure here:
https://unige.it/en/usg/en/international-enrolment
and you must submit the Application for Assessment of Curricular Requirements.

Only students who got a Bachelor's degree mark at least equal or above to the 80% of the maximum possible mark  for their University will be admitted.

Check of the adequacy of personal preparation  

After pre-enrolment, all applicants have to take an interview/pass a test for

  • proofing they can communicate easily and spontaneously in a clear and detailed manner in English (exemptions)
  • demonstrating their personal preparation in economics and business science (exemptions)

The applicants must know the main subjects taught in the economics and/or business science basic courses (basic mathematics, financial mathematics, statistics, business economics, micro and macroeconomics).
Applicants  may revise these topics using their handbooks and/or their course notes and/or other suitable bibliographic references.

Applicants can find some useful bibliographic references, some information about the main topic they are required to know and some examples of the questions they might be asked by the Selection Committee at this page

Students who will have demonstrated serious deficiencies will be declared unsuitable.  The applicants declared unsuitable can freely repeat the interview until the required level is achieved.

Exemptions

You are exempt from proofing your English language competence only if you can certificate at least a B2 English level (send certeficate to valutazionedeirequisiti@economia.unige.it)

You are exempt from test if you have an Italian Degree in L-33 (Economics) or L-18 (Economics and Business Management Sciences), or in a corresponding degree class ex DM 509/99, or in the previous system, with a mark greater than or equal to 99/110.

 

 

Last update 30 July 2024