GUIDES TO THE UNIVERSITY

Credit recognition for exams taken as part of the Exchange,Themis and  Free-Mover Semester is not usually automatic and depends on the following credit approval procedure.
After having been selected (Exchange program and Themis) or authorized by the Study Abroad Office (Free Mover Semester) before departure students, after assessing the offer of the host university, check or request of authorization in advance for having the courses which will be attended abroad recognized to the Bocconi professors.

The courses can be:

• With Bocconi correspondence, if the course taken abroad has a corresponding Bocconi course;

 

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

• to the Course Director of the Bocconi corresponding course
• If the foreign course does not correspond to the Bocconi courses on offer, the authorization request is to 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 ‘International Mobility' section.

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.

For students enrolled in a major: further information is published at paragraph 6.4.1 Major Choice.

The request of conversion of a foreign course with a Bocconi course (with or without Bocconi correspondence) DOES NOT bring any request of study plan change/structure forward. Such requests must be carried out in accordance with the rules and timelines published on the Guide to the Univeristy chapter 6 Administrative procedures, regulations and deadlines. For students enrolled in a track: further information is published in the paragraph 6.4.1 "Majors".

At the end of the mobility period, Foreign University issues the certifications of the exams taken. On the basis of this certificationsand upon student’s request, the appropriate office (Study Abroad office for the Exchange Program, Free Mover Semester/Summer programs, Global Alliances for Themis) and 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 universities 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. In case two or more foreign exams cover a Bocconi exam, the final grade is given by the grade point average of the Bocconi corresponding grades obtained, by using as ponderation coefficient the foreign credit points specified on the Transcript issued by the host University.

Students can also recognize additional exams (see chapter 6.6 Additional Courses).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 Themis or Free Mover at a University where the language requested by Università Bocconi with the purpose of the selection/acceptance is different than English.