GUIDES TO THE UNIVERSITY

Students enrolled in the first year of a Bachelor program are admitted to the second year only if they have earned at least 24 credit points by the July 2009 exam period.
Please take note that such credit points refer only to the first year study plan.

At the end of the July exam period, credit points needed  to move on to the second year are verified.

Students who have not earned the minimum credit points required are unable to take part in the September exam period and must continue their studies by enrolling as repeating students ("ripetente") in the first year of studies.

Enrolling as ripetente gives students the right to attend the lessons but does not give them access to exams before the end of the lessons for the semester in which the course is held.

Students regularly enrolled in the academic year as regular ("in corso") or repeating ("ripetente"):

• are allocated a class group for the lessons;
• are allowed to sit partial and general exams;
• are granted access to the various services offered by the University (Library, IT rooms, etc.);
• can obtain enrolment certifications for the academic year in which they are enrolled.

There are no restrictions for enrolment after the second year of studies.

Enrolment must be carried out during the 1 August - 8 September 2008 period via Punto Blu or Virtual Punto Blu.

The enrolment procedures are as follows:

• select the "Enrolment in Academic Year"option from the main menu at any Punto Blu terminal or Virtual Punto Blu;
• enter the requested enrolment data.
  
  

After selecting "Enrolment in the academic year", the system automatically allows:

• students to enrol in the "regular" second year of studies if they have earned 24 credit points by the July exam period;
• students to enrol as first year repeating students ("ripetente") if they HAVE NOT earned 24 credit points by the July exam period. If the student has obtained the recognition of an international certification, the credit points for the second year foreign language exam will not be calculated. (see "Foreign Languages and Computer Skills"):
• students enrolled in the second year of studies, enrollment in the third year, the choice of electives (when taught in both Italian and English , specify the language chosen) and the second foreign language; in addition, students enrolled in the Bachelor of International Economics and Management (BIEM) to choose the Major.
  

Once enrolment has been completed, students can print the following from Punto Blu:

• "Enrolment" and "official academic transcript" certifications;
• personalized class timetable;
• personalized exam timetable.
  
  

Enrolment in the academic year is completed once the first instalment of the university fees and tuition has been paid and recorded in the student's academic career. If the first instalment is not paid by 15 September 2008 students will not be able to carry out any administrative or learning activities or make use of any other services.

Students who do not enrol by 8 September 2008, for whatever reason, can enrol during the 15 September - 31 December 2008(*) period , upon payment of a late-enrolment fee (for detailed information check the website at www.unibocconi.it/fees.

After 31 December 2008 enrolment is only possible as repeating students, ("fuori corso intermedio") only if the Rector approves a written request for an extension of the enrolment deadline which must be submitted, and the payment of the penalty fees due made (for detailed information please check www.unibocconi.it/fees) , to the Teaching Services and Organization Desk.

(*) Since 31 December 2008 is a holiday, the deadline is extended to the next working day (7 January 2009).

First-year students who are not English native speakers and are enrolled in class groups taught in Italian will have English assigned automatically as their first compulsory language.

First-year students who are not English native speakers and are enrolled in class groups taught in English will have English assigned automatically as their first compulsory language and they can change the language when they complete enrolment at the Admissions Office (from 15 to 26 September 2008).

First-year students who are English native speakers enrolled in class groups taught in Italian are invited to change their first language assigned after they have completed enrolment, between 15-26 September 2008 via Punto Blu or Virtual Punto Blu.

Any changes of languages can be made between 7-30 January 2009 via Punto Blu or Virtual Punto Blu.

Students must choose the second foreign language and the lesson modules they wish to attend in the I and II semester when enrolling in the 3^rd year (1 August-8 September 2008).

Students can change the 1^st and/or 2^nd language using Punto Blu or Virtual Punto Blu in the period 7-30 January 2009.

Information regarding language choice and courses on offer is available in "Foreign Languages and Computer Skills" and on the site at www.unibocconi.it/languagecentre

When students enrol in the third year of their programs via Punto Blu/Virtual Punto Blu (1 August - 8 September 2008) they must choose their elective courses for both the first and second semesters, for inclusion in their study plan. During this period students can also change the electives they chose when enrolling in the current academic year. Students who change even one elective course lose the priority position they held for their initial choice, even for elective courses which have not been changed (see "Elective Allocation").
 

Electives may be freely chosen from the courses available or from the general list or from the cluster following the instructions explained below for each Bachelor Program. 

• 5 elective courses
• Electives must be chosen according to the following criteria:
• at least 2 electives must be chosen from those taught in English, for students involved in semesters abroad, e.g. Exchange program or free mover semester in countries where sitting exams in English is not possible the requirement is 1 elective;
• a maximum of 2 of the 5 electives can be chosen from compulsory courses characteristic of other Bachelor programs;  
• a curricular internship may replace 1 elective taught in Italian.

• 5 compulsory courses chosen from Management or Economics Major;

in addition

• 4 electives;

Electives must be chosen following the criteria below:

•  they may be chosen from the remaining courses of the Major chosen;
• a maximum of 2 of the 4 electives can be chosen from  the Major not chosen or from the compulsory courses characteristic of the other Bachelor programs; 

          a curricular internship may replace 1 elective.

CLEACC

All the students must indicate as compulsory that can be chosen a workshop, selected from among the 10 exclusive CLEACC workshops. In additon:

• 2 electives

Electives must be chosen following the criteria below:

• both may be chosen from the electives list of the Bachelor Programs with a common foundation;

or:

• 1 course chosen from the electives list of the Bachelor Programs with common foundation  and 1 course from among the 10 exclusive CLEACC Workshops (1 of the 10 is already in the study plan as "compulsory course chosen by the student"); 
• at least 1 course must be chosen from among those taught in English (however, for students who spend a semester abroad, in Exchange programs or free mover semester in countries where sitting exams in English is not possible the requirement is not valid); (*) 

          a curricular internship may replace one elective taught in Italian.

(*) The student's study plan must include at least 2 courses (compulsory and/or electives) in English: one of the the two is included in the third year compulsory courses Strategia e politica aziendale [Business Strategy], the other one can be selected from the list of workshops in English included in the study plan as a compulsory course.

Before choosing elective courses students are advised to check the list of courses available, programs, lessons schedule, and the "incompatible" and "banned" courses (italian version).

For all courses it is compulsory to select an alternative course to the priority choice you have made.

The second choice is necessary in case the priority course chosen, taught with the traditional teaching method, does not reach the minimum number of students to run the course (40 per class group) or exceeds the maximum number (110 per class group).  

The educational offer provides that for some electives, also taught with the traditional method, an e-learning class be run in the same semester.   Where appropriate the student must specify the teaching method (traditional or e-learning) when choosing elective courses.

Whether an e-learning class group runs depends on:

• the traditional class (if it does not run, neither will the e-learning class group);
• the minimum number of students enrolled in the e-learning class group.

By 15 September 2008:

• Allocation in the study plan of first- and second-semester electives will take place; students will receive a personal message in their yoU@B student diaries informing them of whether or not they have been assigned the chosen electives.

Allocation of courses is based on a scale that takes into account the alternatives expressed by students and their enrolment positions when they made the choice/change.

Courses that do not attract a minimum of 40 students will not run except for third year CLEACC workshops whose the maximum limit of 35 students enrolled is exclusively set  (allocation is based on the alternatives expressed by students and their enrolment position s when they made the choice/change).

Each class group must not have more than 110 students. The following are not included in this limit:

• students participating in international programs from foreign universities;
• students who opt to change from a four-year to a three-year program, since the results of their applications will be released by 30 September 2008;
•  students who already hold a degree from Università Bocconi and are admitted to the third year.
  
  

Bocconi students participating in international programs may have exams recorded in their academic career which were taken at universities abroad that correspond to Bocconi courses that have either not reached the minimum number of students and therefore are not run or that have already reached  the maximum number of students.

During the 15-30 September 2008 period:

• Students who were not allocated either their first-choice electives or their second-choice electives and
• Students who obtained permission to change their Bachelor Programs
  

must choose from among the first- and second-semester electives that are still available, at Punto Blu or Virtual Punto Blu. In this phase, once electives have reached the maximum number of 110 students, they will no longer be available for other students to choose.

Students who enrol in the academic year after 30 September, and especially during the period from 1 October 2008 to 31 December 2008(**), can choose their first- and second-semester electives from the list of electives that are still available at the time of enrolment in the academic year.

(**) Since 31 December 2008 is a holiday, the deadline is extended to the next working day (7 January 2009).

During the 7-30 January 2009 period students can change the first- and second-semester electives included in their study plan with other second-semester electives, as long as they refer to the current academic year.

Changing electives is always subject to the limited numbers as described in "Elective courses choice rules".

Additional courses are those whose credit points provide more than the 180 credit points needed to fulfil the degree requirements. They can be chosen from among the range of elective courses and can only be included in the study plan after students have passed all the course exams of the first 3 semesters of their Bachelor program.
In order to calculate the average, only two additional exams may be considered (those for which students received the highest marks).

Students can choose additional courses from the third year of studies by picking up and handing in the completed form to the Teaching Services and Organization Desk, in the period 1 August 2008-30 January 2009.

Additional courses may be eliminated by presenting a request to the Teaching Services and Organization Desk.

It is not possible to eliminate from the study plan an activity which has been passed and registered.

For Bachelor programs which have a common foundation - CLEAM, CLES, CLEF and BIEM - students may request to be assigned to a different program as long as it belongs to the same disciplinary foundation as their original Bachelor program. They may request this change during the third semester, in the second year of studies.

In order to submit an application to review the Bachelor program choice, students must be enrolled in their original Bachelor program for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Applications will be accepted as long as the balance between entering and exiting students, added to those students who make up the class groups, is at most equal to 140 students for each class group.

If the number of applications is greater than the number of places, students will be selected according to a ranking list for each new Bachelor program based on merit, which is determined by the weighted average of exam marks and credit points received in comparison with those to be received.

The ranking list will be determined by considering first-year program requirements and exams passed by November 2008.

Students can submit an application to review the Bachelor program choice (the application form must be collected, filled out and handed in at the Teaching Services and Organization Desk) during the 1-22 December 2008 period. The same deadline applies for cancelling or modifying any applications previously submitted.

On 21 January 2009 via their  yoU@B student diary, students receive the results of the Bachelor program reviewal; admitted students receive also  the details on the class group assigned. The list of the results is also available on University bulleting boards (University building, via Sarfatti 25).

During the January- February 2009 period, students who applied to review their Bachelor program choices must sit first- and second-semester exams of the first year of studies and  first-semester exams of the second year of studies as required in the study plan, with course profiles and teachers of their original Bachelor programs.

Students cannot change their Bachelor program during the program's first year. Students may change program only upon completion of the first year of studies.

Changes of program after the first, second or third year are allowed only for Bachelor programs which have not a common foundation (that is, those programs which do not have the same first 3 semesters):

• from CLEAM, CLES, CLEF, BIEM to CLEACC and vice-versa;
• from CLEAM, CLES, CLEF, BIEM to CLMG and vice-versa;
• from CLEACC to CLMG and vice-versa.
  
  

If students request to change their program after completion of the first year of studies, they are admitted to the first year of the new program.

If students request to change their Bachelor program after their second or third year of studies, the year of admission to the new program is determined by the Program Director, who will take the student's academic curriculum into account.

To request a change of program, students must have previously enrolled in the original program for the upcoming academic year (in the first year of the program as a repeating student ("ripetente") or in years following the first).

When changing from one Bachelor program to another, the following applies:

• exams taken for courses in the original degree program that have the same title, code and credit point values as those in the new degree program are considered to be equal (same exams in common);
• exams are to be integrated if they are exams for courses belonging to the same subject group in both the original and new degree program. Courses may have significantly different course profiles which are worth the same credit point value, or the original program's courses may be worth less credit points than those of the new program. In this case the exam mark is based on a weighted average of the marks obtained in both degree programs;
• any exams included in the original degree program that are not included in the program structure of the new degree program are considered to be in excess. In this case, compulsory courses passed as part of the original degree program, not included in the study plan of the new degree program may be recognized as additional courses and also as elective courses upon approval from the Program Director of the new degree program.

In addition, students are considered to have attended the lessons for courses taken in the years before the change included in the program structure of the new degree program. Therefore  students can register for the exams for the  courses included in the program structure of the new degree program in the years before the change, starting from the first available exam session.

• Bachelor Program Change and Reviewal - Table (italian version)

In order to regulate the changes from one degree program to another, for the 2008-2009 academic year the Faculty Council has set that applications will be accepted as long as the balance between entering and exiting students, added to those students who make up the class groups, is at most equal to 140 students for each class group.

If the number of applications is greater than the number of places, students will be selected according to a ranking list for each new Bachelor program based on merit, which is determined by the weighted average of exam marks and credit points received compared with those to be received.

The ranking list will be determined by considering first-year program requirements and exams passed by July 2008.

Students can submit the application to change Bachelor program (the application form must be collected, filled out and handed in at the Teaching Services and Organization Desk) during the 1 August - 3 September 2008 period. The same deadline applies for cancelling or modifying any applications previously submitted.

In order to submit the application to change program students must be enrolled in their original Bachelor program for the 2008-2009 academic year.

On 9 September 2008 via their yoU@B student diary, students will receive the results of the application for degree program change. If admitted, students will also receive the new degree program details and the class group assigned. The list of the results is also displayed on the University bulletin boards (University building, via Sarfatti 25).

Bocconi students may transfer to another university by submitting an application to transfer form. The form is to be collected, filled out and submitted to the Teaching and Services Organization Desk. Details must include the new university they intend to transfer to, the Faculty, and the Program they wish to attend.

Students are advised to check the deadline for receiving transfer documents with the university they intend to transfer to, in order to ensure that they have enough time to complete the transfer procedure.

Students who present a transfer request during the 1 August - 30 September 2008 period do not have to enrol in the 2008-2009 academic year; students who present a transfer request after 1 October 2008 (and no later than 31 December 2008(*) must enrol for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Enrolled students who have submitted a transfer application should contact the TCA (University Fees Office) for information regarding university fees and tuition.

The transfer application form must be accompanied by:

• the unofficial academic transcript and Bocconi ID card;
• receipt for payment of fees for the issue of the transfer document;
• declaration from the Bocconi Library that the student does not have any overdue books;
• authorization from ISU Bocconi;
• authorization from the TCA (University Fees Office).

Students who transfer to another university cannot return to Università Bocconi within one year from the date of the transfer document. In such a case, students are admitted to the year of studies they have the right to, on the basis of exams passed and  registered in the academic curriculum, regardless of the year students were previously enrolled in.

Students who intend to continue their studies at the Italian Military Academy and universities abroad must hand in a special application form available from the Teaching Services and Organization Desk.

(*) Since 31 December 2008 is a holiday, the deadline is extended to the next working day (7 January 2009).

Students are suspended if they have not earned any credit points for a period of time equal to the standard program duration.
Suspension depends on the number of academic years in which the student:

• enrols without earning any credits;
• doesn't enrol.
  

The years mentioned above are calculated in determining disqualification (see "Disqualification").

Students who intend to resume their studies after being suspended must submit a written formal reinstatement request to the Teaching Services and Organization Desk. The validity of any previously earned credit points and the year of studies in which students must enrol will be evaluated. The suspension will result in students being unable to carry out any administrative or educational activities or make use of any university services. Students who resume studies must consult the TCA (University Fees Office) regarding university fees and tuition.

If after their reinstatement students do not earn any credit points for a further year of studies, they will be suspended once again for the following years until disqualification.

Students who during the academic year are carrying out military service or civil service duties, female students in the year of birth of each child and students who are forced to interrupt studies because of serious illness and certified prolonged medical conditions can apply to temporarily interrupt their studies in accordance with DPCM 09/04/2001.
Temporary interruption of studies means that students will not be able to complete any administrative operations, participate in educational activities or make use of any university services. The years for which the student did not enrol do not count towards disqualification. For each year of temporary interruption students are required to pay a fixed sum set by the TCA (University Fees Office).

See updated information - July 2009

Students are disqualified

• after a maximum number of 3 years enrolled as repeating students ("fuori corso"and/or "ripetente")
  

or

• after earning no credit points for 6 years (equal to double the program standard duration).
  
  

When calculating the maximum number of years enrolled as "fuori corso" and/or "ripetente" the period in which there was a temporary interruption of studies in accordance with DPCM 09/04/2001 (military service, civil service, year of childbirth,serious illness and certified prolonged medical conditions) is not included .

Students who have been disqualified from their Bachelor programs can obtain certifications attesting to their university career and the number of credit points earned . If students should eventually resume their studies, the credit points previously earned will be evaluated to determine if they are still valid.

Disqualification does not apply to students who have passed all exams and are only missing the final degree exam.

Updated information - July 2009

The new rule establishes that after eight academic years following the end of the standard duration of the program (three years), calculated from the first initial enrollment in the university system, the student’s academic career is subject to assessment.  If the evaluation is positive, a new deadline will be set, as a general rule equal to the standard duration of the program, by which time students must complete all educational activities.

Students who do not intend to exercise the rights they acquired by enrolling, can withdraw from their studies at any time. Their intention to withdraw must be communicated in a written, clear and concise form, and  is irrevocable.

Students who withdraw from their studies may obtain certifications attesting to their university career and credit points earned.

The withdrawal form is to be collected, filled out and submitted to the Teaching Services and Organization Desk. The application should include a declaration stating that there are no pending obligations with ISU Bocconi (Student Assistance and Financial Aid), the Bocconi Library, and other University Offices. The Bocconi ID card must be attached to the application.

Students must pay university fees and tuition up to the submission of the withdrawal form according to the payment deadlines defined by TCA (University Fess Office).

Students who submit the withdrawal form should contact the TCA (University Fees Office) regarding university fees and tuition due.