Second Cycle Degree/Two Year Master in Bioinformatics

Final examination: modalities and deadlines

To graduate, you have to sit a final examination designed to verify that you have reached the education objectives set by the Degree Programme.

Final dissertations and graduation ceremonies shall be held in person.

Students may invite a number of guests determined by each Department based on logistics and organisation requirements. No maximum limit applies to the number of participants that can attend remotely.

The dissertation discussion can take place remotely for:

  • students who are unable to travel due to force majeure;
  • students domiciled abroad, who have been admitted to the final exam/remote discussion of their dissertation, where envisaged, for courses that award double or joint degrees;
  • students who are serving prison sentences.

The final examination consists in writing a dissertation on a subject pertinent to your studies, elaborated in an original way, under the guidance of a supervisor. The dissertation will be discussed publicly during a specific final examination session in front of a Board.

The Board will assess your performance using your curriculum as a reference. During the dissertation discussion, you may use slides and the Commission may ask you in-depth questions on methods, results and any developments of your work.

In order to be admitted to the final examination the student must pass the Final colloquium, a month before the Final examination.
 

Final Examination

The final dissertation will be held in front of the Master commission and it consists in an oral presentation of the thesis original work, its results and future perspectives.

Timing

The Final Examinations are scheduled as follows:

Graduation Session Start of Graduation Application STANDARD Graduation Application Deadline LATE Graduation Application Deadline (Extra Fee: 100,00 €) ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS DEADLINE
(all exams and activities in the study plan registered, including Internships, AlmaLaurea Questionnaire) AND DISSERTATION UPLOAD DEADLINE
Final Colloquium Deadline for Supervisor's Approval
24 July 2025 08 May 2025 12 June 2025 19 June 2025 03 July 2025 02-04 July 2025 10 July 2025
25 September 2025 10 July 2025 14 August 2025 21 August 2025 04 September 2025 03-05 September 2025 11 September 2025
16 December 2025 30 September 2025 04 November 2025 11 November 2025 25 November 2025 17-19 November 2025 02 December 2025
26 February 2026 11 December 2025 15 January 2026 22 January 2026 05 February 2026 04-06 February 2026 12 February 2026

Graduation application

To submit your application online, you must access Studenti Online before the deadlines set for the application submission and the requirements.

Registration of the your internship(s)

Internship(s) must be registered according to the modalities explained at this page.

If you are heading to graduate, please note that the registration of the internship ECTS must be done by the deadline for meeting the requirements for the admission to the degree examination (see the Calendar attached).

In order to have ECTS of the internship recorded by the deadline, you must upload to SOL-Internships the documents required for the completion of the internship at least 10 working days before the due date of fulfilling the requirements.

Modalities and Deadlines

In order to graduate you must:

a. submit your Graduation Application via Studenti Online (www.studenti.unibo.it);

b. pay all tuition fees. The Student Administration Office will check the regularity of your payments and will contact you in case there are fees to be paid;

c. satisfy the following requirements by the Deadlines you can find in the "Attachments" box:

  1. sat all the exams in your study plan and had them recorded;
  2. uploaded the dissertation in pdf format on Studenti Online. The dissertation can be uploaded multiple times, until the requirements deadline expires. When uploading the dissertation, the system will ask you to enter some key words and a brief abstract;
  3. submitted the Alma Laurea questionnaire on Studenti Online.

The Student Administration Office will verify all requirements and will contact you if there are any issues, to allow you to regularise your position before the final examination.

The graduation application is valid for just one graduation session. If you graduate in a later session, you will have to re-submit your graduation application and pay only the duty stamp.

N.B: candidates must check their Unibo e-mail address (name.surname@studio.unibo.it) regularly, especially near to deadlines. The title of the dissertation that will appear on the front page of the thesis must correspond exactly to the one inserted on Studenti Online while submitting their applications. 

Rules for the Master's Thesis

Please refer to the following for detailed information: https://corsi.unibo.it/2cycle/Bioinformatics/tesi