Guides to the university

Students who decide to attend the last year of studies at Bocconi University must renew enrollment in the 2024-2025 academic year from 29 July to 26 August 2024:

• from the first day of open enrollment, it is necessary to select through the yoU@B Diary > left side menu Renew Academic Year Enrollment 2024-2025; 
• starting from 1 August, it is necessary to access through the yoU@B Diary to Punto Blu > Administrative Area and select the "Academic Year Enrollment" function. 

The enrollment procedures are as follows:

• select the "Enrollment in Academic Year" option;
• enter the enrollment data requested.

Enrollment in the academic year via the appropriate procedure is completed once the first installment of the tuition and fees has been paid and recorded in the student's academic career. If the first installment is not paid students will not be able to carry out any administrative or learning activities or make use of any other services.
Students who do not enroll by 26 August 2024, for whatever reason, can enroll during the 27 August - 31 December 2024 (*) period, upon payment of a late-enrollment fee (for detailed information check the website at www.unibocconi.eu/fees.

(*) Since 31 December 2024 is a holiday, the deadline is extended to the next working day (3 January 2025).

Students can change the second language using Punto Blu, which can be accessed through the yoU@B student Diary, in the Administrative Area (Language choice/change) in the period 29 July - 13 September 2024 and between 08-21 January 2025.

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

From 15 January to 14 February 2025 students enrolled in the third year of the WBB must choose, by filling out the appropriate form, the University where they intend to attend the fourth year from among:

• Bocconi University (Milan);
   
• University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business (Los Angeles);
   
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong).

Upon enrollment in the fourth year of studies (29 July - 26 August 2024), from the left-hand menu of the yoU@B Student Diary Renewing Enrollment in the 2024-2025 Academic Year, students must choose one of the proposed tracks:
 

• Strategy and Entrepreneurship
• Technology and Operations Management
• Marketing
• Accounting and Finance
• Public Management and Policy
• Economics

or the free-track (choice from among all elective courses on offer).

Students must choose the elective courses of the first and second semester in the relating lists (the lists of courses included in the tracks is specified in the chapter Program Structure).

Before choosing the elective courses, students are advised to view the list of the courses available, the course profiles, class timetables and the incompatible table.

From 08 to 21 January 2025 via yoU@B > Punto Blu students can change elective courses of the first and second semester included in the study plan with other courses included in the chosen track, as long as they are taught in the second semester of the current academic year.

Additional courses are those whose credit points provide more than the 180 credit points needed to fulfil the Italian degree requirements. WBB students who choose to spend the fourth year of studies at Bocconi University can include a maximum of three additional activities in their study plan, provided that they have passed all course exams of the first two and a half years (only academic activities having an equivalent in the Bocconi study plan will be taken into account).
Additional activities can be selected from among languages and elective courses; students can also have one internship as an additional activity.

To calculate the grade point average, only two additional exams may be considered (those for which students received the highest marks; if grades achieved are the same, the courses with the highest number of credit points are considered).

Students can choose additional courses by filling in the form available in yoU@B diary Additional courses request during the period from: 

• 29 July - 26 August 2024 for first-semester courses;
• 8 - 21 January 2025 for second-semester courses

Please note that:

• Allocation of additional courses depends on places available. In addition:
• If available, additional are included in the study plan only upon making the allocation or change of the curricular elective courses: after 26 August 2024 for the first semester courses (but before the start of lessons i.e. 5 September 2024) and after 21 January 2025 for the second semester courses (but before the start of lessons i.e. 3 February 2025).

Additional courses may be removed by sending a request via B in Touch. It is not possible to remove an activity from the study plan which has been passed and recorded.

During the academic year, students who 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 Italian 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 enroll do not count towards disqualification. For each year of temporary interruption students are required to pay a fixed sum set by the Fees Founding and Housing Office.

Students are encouraged to graduate within the official duration of the program.

The student status expires in case students do not renew enrollment for eight consecutive academic years, or in case they renew enrollment but do not pass exams/other assessments.

Any periods of “temporary interruption” of studies in accordance with Italian D.P.C.M. (Ministerial Decree) of 09/04/2001 (military service, civil service, year of birth of each child and duly certified serious and prolonged illness) are not taken into account in the calculation of the eight years.

Students whose student status has expired may obtain certificates related to the academic career pursued and credits previously acquired and may re-enroll. In that case:

• If the program is no longer offered, they may complete their studies upon transfer to an offered program.
• If the study plan has undergone major changes, an ad hoc study plan with the list of activities to be completed will be arranged, consistent with the study plan in effect at the time studies are resumed.
• Regarding exams/other assessments passed before the expiry of student status, recognition is subject to verification of non-obsolescence. The assessment of non-obsolescence is carried out by the Program Director (by delegation of the Study Program Committee) with the support of the administrative office in charge.

Students who do not want their student status to expire must submit a specific application through B in Touch > Administrative Procedures in order for their academic career to be evaluated for non-obsolescence by the Program Director.

Students can withdraw from their studies at any time, ending their academic career at this University. Their intention to withdraw must be communicated in a written, clear and concise form.
The withdrawal form can be downloaded here, 

To apply for a withdrawal from studies, students must:

1. request authorization from the Fees, Funding and Housing Office, as well as the Library, under the respective offices’ sections in B in Touch;
2. complete and sign the downloaded form above and affix a €16 revenue stamp (see note);
3. send the following by registered mail/courier:
   • a copy of a valid form of ID
   • the completed and signed form accompanied by a revenue stamp;
   • a copy of the responses containing the authorizations from the Fees, Funding and Housing Office, as well as the Library, to the following address: Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi" Academic Services - Academic Planning Office - Room 213, Piazza Sraffa 11, 20136, Milano.

Please note: Students who are unable to purchase a revenue stamp (e.g. because they are abroad) can make the €16 payment by credit card using the following link, and attach the payment receipt to the withdrawal application: https://uni.bocconistore.it/buy_it/ (select "Revenue stamp for administrative records")

Students must pay tuition and fees up to the submission of the withdrawal form according to the payment deadlines defined by the Fees Founding and Housing Office.

Students who submit the withdrawal form should contact the Fees Founding and Housing Office in order to check any pending obligations with reference to any expired tuition and fees, financial aid and facilities deadlines.
Withdrawn students can obtain certifications regarding the previous academic career and credit points earned.

Law no. 33 of 12/04/2022 allows enrollment in two study programs at the same time, as long as:

• the two study programs do not belong to the same field of study;  
• the concurrent enrollment in the two study programs with different fields of study guarantees that at least 2/3 of the educational activities are different.

In addition, for Bocconi only: 

• the two study programs are offered at two different Universities.  

Because any concurrent enrollments must necessarily be communicated to the two Universities, students in this situation are encouraged to fill out the self-declaration form available in the yoU@B student diary > Concurrent Enrollment. The responsible offices will then be able to carry out the appropriate checks or contact the interested parties for further details, if necessary.

The university will collect information regarding concurrent enrollment at the beginning of each academic year.