GUIDES TO THE UNIVERSITY

Students enrolled in the programs can obtain credit recognition (grade and credit points)for exams taken as part of activities carried out abroad in the Exchange and Campus Abroad (*) Programs, which are promoted and coordinated by the Study Abroad office of the Markets and External Affairs Division, the Free-Mover Semester and Free-Mover Summer.

Specifically:

• as part of the above programs carried out abroad, students can have a maximum of 5 exams recognized for the Exchange or Free-Mover Semester programs and not more than 1 exam for the Free-Mover Summer;
• student must convert minimum 1 exam so that the Exchange Program or the Free Mover experience (Semester or Summer) can be recognized in the student’s academic career;
• the following exams, if taken abroad, cannot be recognized:
  - the banned courses: see list of compulsory courses which cannot be recognized
  - the exam of foreign language and computer skills
  - the compulsory courses specific of other Bachelor programs;
• students cannot sit for ‘in proctoring’ exams relating to courses attended abroad.

(*) Exams passed as part of the Campus Abroad program do not include the phase of Credit for exams taken in foreign universities as they are Bocconi courses. See paragraph 7.14.2

Credit recognition for exams taken as part of Exchange, Free-Mover Semester and Free-Mover Summer Programs is not usually automatic and depends on the following credit approval procedure.

After being selected (Exchange and Campus Abroad programs) or authorized by the Study Abroad office (Free Mover Semester) and before leaving students, after assessing the offer of the host university, check or request authorization in advance to have the courses they wish to sit abroad recognized in their academic career to the Bocconi professors.

The courses can be:

• With Bocconi correspondence, if the course taken abroad has a corresponding Bocconi course;
• Without Bocconi correspondence, if the course taken abroad does not have a corresponding Bocconi course.
  

The students participating in a mobility program as a Free Mover Summer student can have 1 exam recognized - with Bocconi correspondence - only.

The in-advance authorization request, together with the foreign course profile, must be sent:

- to the Course Director of the corresponding Bocconi course in case

- when the foreign course os without Bocconi correspondence, the request of authorization will be sent to the Program Director or his/her delegate.

The in-advance authorization request must be sent through the appropriate procedure available on the yoU@B Diary ‘Request of recognition of exams taken abroad’.

Two or more exams can be merged to cover a Bocconi exam upon approval of the Course Director or the Program Director. A foreign exam cannot be used to cover two or more Bocconi exams.

The request of recognition of a foreign course with a Bocconi one (with or without any Bocconi correspondence) DOES not allow any in-advance change/structure of the study plan which must be made in accordance with rules and timelines specified in Paragraph 9.3.4 'Administrative rules, procedures and deadlines'

After the period abroad, the Foreign University issues the certifications of the exams taken. On the basis of this certificationsand upon student’s request, the Study Abroad office carries out the appropriate checks to prepare the grade recording of exams taken abroad that students wish to have recognized.

For further details check the website http://www.ir.unibocconi.eu/, paragraph Academic Recognition of the relevant section.

Exams passed in other university by Bocconi students is assigned the grades of the university of origin. If the grade is expressed in other scales (letters of numbers) the grade is converted out of thirty on the basis of special tables of correspondence.

Students can also recognize additional exams (see chapter 9.4 'Administrative rules, procedures and deadlines').

NB: The program structure of the Programs taught in Italian include at least one course in English (compulsory or elective one): this limit is not applied in case the student participates in the Exchange Program or Free Mover at a University where the language requested by Università Bocconi with the purpose of the selection/acceptance is different than English.

Credit is granted for all exams taken as part of the Campus Abroad Program as they are considered as Bocconi exams.
On completion of the program, the Markets and External Affairs Division - Study Abroad sends a list of students who have passed exams along with marks to the Study Planning Office. The course is automatically registered in the student's academic career, if it conforms to the program structure regulations.