Graduating
Summary
Online delivery of final paper / dissertation summary must be submitted within the deadlines.
Thesis
To be admitted to the final exam, students must do the following:
- 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).
- Students must deliver a copy of their final work to their supervisor and co-supervisor. On the day of the final exam, students must deliver a copy of their final work to the Committee.
There are three graduation sessions per year, for both Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes:
- Summer session
- Autumn session
- Winter session.
In the Deadlines and calendars section you will find the dates for each session and all the steps required to take the final exam.
Students who graduate by the third session of the academic year need not pay the first instalment for the 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 10 July to 12 July 2023
- Online application for graduation: from 10 May to 08 June 2023
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 08 June 2023
- Deadline for completing exams: 20 June 2023
- Academic record must not be submitted
- End of internship (online procedure): within 16 June 2023
- Online delivery of dissertation summary: from 23 June to 27 June 2023
- Online thesis submission: within 27 June 2023
- Thesis: send a pdf version to the President of the Committee, if the session will be held with commission and candidates online; or deliver 1 signed copy of the thesis to the Committee on the day of the final exam.
- Final exams: 25-26 September 2023;
- Online application for graduation: from 17 August to 1 September 2023;
- Candidate must submit a request via InformaStudenti within 1 September 2023. At the time of submission, the candidate must have already presented the online application for graduation and applied for the PhD.
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 1 September 2023;
- End of internship (online procedure): within 4 September 2023;
- Deadline for completing exams: 4 September 2023;
- Online delivery of dissertation summary: from 4 to 15 September 2023;
- Online thesis submission: 18 September 2023.
- Thesis: send a pdf version to the President of the Committee, if the session will be held with commission and candidates online; or deliver 1 signed copy of the thesis to the supervisor and co-supervisor and a 1 copy to the Committee on the day of the final exam.
- Final exams: from 11 to 13 October 2023
- Online application for graduation: from 17 August to 11 September 2023
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 11 September 2023
- Deadline for completing exams: 20 September 2023
- Academic record must not be submitted
- End of internship (online procedure): within 11 September 2023
- Delivery of dissertation summary: from 22 to 26 September 2023
- Online thesis submission: within 26 September 2023
- On the day of the final exam, students must deliver 1 signed copy of their final work to the Committee. If the session is held remotely, send the final work in pdf format to the Chairman of the Commission.
- Final exams: from 18 to 20 December 2023
- Online application for graduation: from 18 October to 20 November 2023
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 20 November 2023
- Deadline for completing exams: 24 November 2023
- Academic record must not be submitted
- End of internship (online procedure): within 20 November 2023
- Delivery of dissertation summary: from 1 December to 5 December 2023
- Online thesis submission: within 5 December 2023
- On the day of the final exam, students must deliver 1 signed copy of their final work to the Committee. If the session is held remotely, send the final work in pdf format to the Chairman of the Commission.
- Final exams: from 20 to 22 March 2024
- Online application for graduation: from 1 February to 28 February 2024
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: 28 February 2024
- Deadline for completing exams: 28 February 2024
- Academic record must not be submitted
- End of internship (online procedure): within 28 February 2024
- Online delivery of final paper summary: from 1 to 5 March 2024
- Online thesis submission: within 5 March 2024
- Students must deliver a copy of their final work to their supervisor and co-supervisor. On the day of the final exam, students must deliver a copy of their final work to the Committee. If the session is held remotely, send the final work in pdf format to the Chairman of the Commission.
The extraordinary session is reserved for students with no more than two exams pending at the time of the graduation application.
The degree programmes will set extraordinary exam sessions in May 2023, only students who have submitted their graduation application for the extraordinary graduation session academic year 2021/2022 will be able to access.
- Final exams: 12-13 June 2023
- Online application for graduation: from 21 March to 6 April 2023
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 6 April 2023
- Deadline for completing exams: 24 May 2023
- End of internship (online procedure):within 24 May 20023
- Delivery of dissertation summary: from 19 May to 24 May 2023
- Online thesis submission: within 24 May 2023
- On the day of the final exam, students must deliver 1 signed copy of their final work to the Committee, to the supervisor and to the co-supervisor.