Final examination: modalities and deadlines

The final examination consists in the public discussion, in front of an appointed Committee, of an original dissertation written on a subject pertinent to your studies, elaborated in an original way, under the guidance of a supervisor.  

Any professor who is in charge of a teaching activity within the University may become a supervisor, as long as their teaching activity falls within the Scientific-Disciplinary Sectors enviosioned in the Degree Programme's regulation. Exceptions might be asked to the Degree Programme's Board, submitting a specific request to the Teaching Office.

The supervisor will monitor and check your research work, verifying its adequacy for the discussion, as well as its originality and inventiveness, even using web applications. 

The Committee will assess the presentation using the student's curriculum as a reference. It is possible to use slides during the thesis’ discussion, and the Committee may ask in-depth questions on methods, results and any developments of the work.

Graduation application

To submit the online application, students must access Studenti Online and complete the procedures before the set deadlines, as listed below.

Graduation application requires the payment of €32.00 in duty stamp (imposta di bollo).

An additional fee of 100€ will be required if the students fail to submit the graduation application by the established deadlines.

The graduation application lasts for one academic year.  If the student fails to set the final examination within the session (academic year) for which they have applied, they will have to repeat the online application and pay the 32€ duty stamp a second time.

Admission Requirements

In order to graduate, the students must have:

• sat all the exams in the study plan and had them recorded;
• paid all tuition fees;
• completed the Alma Laurea questionnaire on Studenti Online;
• uploaded the dissertation in .pdf format on Studenti Online. The dissertation can be uploaded multiple times, until the relevant deadline expires. When uploading the dissertation, the system will ask to enter some key words and a brief abstract.

The Student Administration Office will verify the requirements and will contact the students if any issues arise, to allow the regularization of the position before the final examination.

Deadlines

One graduation session is scheduled every year. The session includes a number of dates, each with specific deadlines for the submission of the online application, for meeting the administrative requirements, and for the thesis’ approval.

Academic year 2023/2024

Deadline for administrative requirements

By the deadlines for administrative requirements – as listed above - the students must have:

• taken and passed all the exams included in their academic career;
• paid all the required tuition fees;
• completed the online AlmaLaurea questionnaire or asked the Student Administration Office to be exempted from the database;
• verified that their supervisor approved the thesis’ title (if not, the supervisor needs to be notified as soon as possible).

Deadline for the thesis’ upload

By the deadlines for the thesis’ upload – as listed above - the students must upload on StudentiOnline their thesis in .pdf format; the students must also fill out the online form with their work’s key words and the abstract, as required. The students can upload their thesis and make changes multiple times up to the deadline. After said date, further changes cannot be made.

Attention: the title used in the field “Thesis Title” in the graduation application must be the same as the title page of the .pdf document. The student and the supervisor must have agreed on the content of the document in advance.

The University of Bologna offers students the possibility to publish their thesis on the institutional thesis repository, AMSLaurea. The reposition happens in an automatic way through Studenti Online, after the final exam and the registration of the final grade have been completed. Studenti Online automatically transfers to the repository the thesis as well as its metadata and legal authorizations (access and distribution). When uploading the thesis, the students must choose what level of consultation they would like for their work (online access for everyone immediately after the discussion and validation by the offices / postponed after a restriction period that the student and supervisor have previously agreed on / limited access for users with UNIBO credentials).

For further information on AMS publications, please check the attachments.

Deadline for the thesis approval

By the deadlines listed above the students’ thesis must have been approved by the supervisor.

With the approval, the supervisor authorizes the students’ admissions to the final examination.

If the deadline approaches and the supervisor has not approved the thesis yet, please contact directly the supervisor.

Deadline for submitting the declaration for deposit

By the deadlines listed above the students must download the declaration of deposit, which is automatically generated by the system after the supervisor’s approval. The students must sign and send the declaration to the Campus Library at the email address: bibliotecacesena.info@unibo.it , together with the scan of their ID. Further instructions can be found in the attachments. The online publication on the institutional thesis repository AMS Tesi di Laurea will only be possible if the students send the declaration.