To be admitted to the Master's Degree programme, one must hold either a Bachelor’s degree, or a three-year university diploma, or an equivalent qualification obtained abroad and recognised as valid.

Admission to the course requires adequate personal preparation and specific curricular requirements.

A solid knowledge of contemporary history, public law, political economy, political science, and sociology is also needed. The curricular requirements are deemed to be satisfied if the applicant holds a degree in one of the following fields:

L-11 (Communication Modern Languages and Cultures),

L-12 (Linguistic Mediation),

L-14 (Studies on Legal Services),

L-15 (Tourism Studies),

L-16 (Administration and Organisation Studies),

L-18 (Economics and Business Management),

L-20 (Communication Studies),

L-33 (Economics),

L-36 (Political Science and International Relations),

L-37 (Social Sciences for Cooperation, Development and Peace),

L-39 (Social Work),

L-40 (Sociology),

L-41 (Statistics),

L-42 (History),

LMG/01 (Law),

L/DS (Defence and Security Studies),

L/SC (Criminological and Security Sciences).

(or the corresponding degree classes under DM 509/99)

provided they have obtained a total of at least 40 CFU (ECTS credits) in specific academic subject fields (SSD) from the following areas:

a. IUS/01 (Private Law), IUS/02 (Comparative Private Law), IUS/03 (Agricultural Law), IUS/04 (Commercial Law), IUS/05 (Economic Law), IUS/06 (Navigation Law), IUS/07 (Labour Law), IUS/08 (Constitutional Law), IUS/09 (Public Law Institutions), IUS/10 (Administrative Law), IUS/11 (Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Law), IUS/12 (Tax Law), IUS/13 (International Law), IUS/14 (European Union Law), IUS/15 (Civil Procedure), IUS/16 (Criminal Procedure), IUS/17 (Criminal Law), IUS/18 (Roman Law and Law in the Ancient World), IUS/19 (History of Medieval and Modern Law), IUS/20 (Philosophy of Law), IUS/21 (Comparative Public Law).
 

b. SECS-P/01 (Political Economy), SECS-P/02 (Economic Policy), SECS-P/03 (Public Finance), SECS-P/04 (History of Economic Thought), SECS-P/05 (Econometrics), SECS-P/06 (Applied Economics), SECS-P/07 (Business Economics), SECS-P/08 (Business Economy and Management), SECS-P/09 (Corporate Finance), SECS-P/10 (Business Organisation), SECS-P/11 (Economics of Financial Intermediaries), SECS-P/12 (Economic History), SECS-P/13 (Commodity Sciences).

c. SECS-S/01 (Statistics), SECS-S/02 (Statistics for Experimental and Technological Research), SECS-S/03 (Economic Statistics), SECS-S/04 (Demography), SECS-S/05 (Social Statistics), SECS-S/06 (Mathematical Methods for Economics and Actuarial and Financial Sciences).

d. M-STO/01 (Medieval History), M-STO/02 (Modern History), M-STO/03 (History of Eastern Europe), M-STO/04 (Contemporary History), M-STO/05 (History of Science and Technology), M-GGR/01 (Geography), M-GGR/02 (Economic and Political Geography).

e. L-LIN/04 (French Language and Translation), L-LIN/07 (Spanish Language and Translation), L-LIN/09 (Portuguese and Brazilian Language and Translation), L-LIN/11 (Anglo-American Languages and Literature), L-LIN/12 (English Language and Translation), L-LIN/14 (German Language and Translation), L-LIN/15 (Nordic Languages and Literatures), L-LIN/21 (Slavic Studies), L-OR/12 (Arabic Language and Translation), L-OR/21 (Chinese Language and Translation), L-OR/22 (Japanese Language and Translation).

f. SPS/01 (Political Philosophy), SPS/02 (History of Political Doctrines), SPS/03 (History of Political Institutions), SPS/04 (Political Science), SPS/05 (History and Institutions of the Americas), SPS/06 (History of International Relations), SPS/07 (General Sociology), SPS/08 (Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes), SPS/09 (Sociology of Economic and Labour Processes), SPS/10 (Sociology of the Environment and Territory), SPS/11 (Sociology of Political Phenomena), SPS/12 (Legal Sociology, Sociology of Deviance and Social Change), SPS/13 (History and Institutions of Africa), SPS/14 (History and Institutions of Asia), M-FIL/01 (Theoretical Philosophy), M-FIL/02 (Logic and Philosophy of Science), M-FIL/03 (Moral Philosophy), M-FIL/05 (Philosophy and Theory of Language), M-FIL/06 (History of Philosophy), M-PSI/01 (General Psychology), M-PSI/04 (Developmental Psychology), M-PSI/05 (Social Psychology), M-PSI/06 (Work and Organisational Psychology).

Graduates from the degree classes L-16, L-36, and L-39 (or corresponding degree classes under DM 509/99) are exempt from the 40 ECTS credit requirement as they automatically meet the necessary criteria.

Students holding a University Diploma in Social Work with a curriculum meeting the following requirements are also eligible:

1. At least 8 ECTS in IUS/05 (Economic Law) and IUS/07 (Labour Law),

2. At least 8 ECTS in M-PSI/01 (General Psychology) and M-PSI/05 (Social Psychology),

3. At least 8 ECTS in M-STO/04 (Contemporary History),

4. At least 8 ECTS in SECS-P/02 (Economic Policy), SECS-P/03 (Public Finance), SECS-P/06 (Applied Economics), and SECS-P/10 (Business Organisation),

5. At least 8 ECTS in SPS/04 (Political Science),

6. At least 28 ECTS in SPS/07 (General Sociology), SPS/08 (Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes), SPS/09 (Sociology of Economic and Labour Processes).

For graduates from other degree classes, admission will be contingent upon having at least 75 ECTS credits in the specific academic subject fields (SSD) listed above.

The Academic Committee for the Master's Degree will evaluate graduate applications under the pre-DM 509/99 system.

Assessment of personal preparation is mandatory, and only students who meet the curricular requirements can undergo this process. 

Assessment methods are specified in the programme’s teaching Regulations

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