Final examination: modalities

1) Graduation session

The defence of the final thesis entails the discussion of a dissertation that is written under the guidance of a supervisor. Usually, the session covers more than one day. Students are generally informed about the exact date of their defence and the composition of the Graduation Board one week in advance through their institutional e-mail address. This piece of information is also available at www.studenti.unibo.it in the section called “Graduation”.

2) Application

Regular

The application for the graduation session is available 20 days before the deadline. You can apply for graduation and pay the graduation fee of €32 only once per academic year.
you decide not to graduate within the session you have chosen, you have to send an e-mail to the Registrar Office (Segreteria Studenti) at segecosta@unibo.it from your institutional e-mail address. Thus, the Registrar Office will cancel your reservation and allow you to book forthcoming sessions. In this case, no further fees are due within the same academic year

The title of your thesis – as previously agreed with your supervisor – has to be specified in your application. Please remind that this title will be reported in the official degree certificates.

Late application (with a fee)

Candidates are allowed to undertake a late application – after the first deadline – by paying an additional late payment fee of €100.

3) Requirements fullfillment

Candidates have to:

• Pay all due fees and/or taxes. The Registrar Office verifies the fulfilment of the payments of fees and taxes, even after this deadline. Candidates are contacted at their institutional e-mail addresses in case of anomalies. In case of taxes that happen to be due after the aforementioned deadline candidates should fulfil the mandatory requirements within the deadline anyway (i.e. the fee related to integration for ERGO students).
• Pass all the exams included in their study plan. All exams you have passed throughout your career – which are part of your study plan – should be registered. The Registrar Office will contact candidates through their institutional e-mail addresses in case of anomalies.
• Fill in the “AlmaLaurea” online form. Candidates will find the appropriate link to Alma Laurea during the completion of their application (successful procedures will be acknowledged by the system about 2 hours later).

4) Upload of the final thesis

Candidates have to upload their thesis in pdf format (max 30 MB) in the appropriate section of their application on www.studenti.unibo.it. It is not possible to upload a thesis after the deadline. Candidates who do not manage to upload it within the required terms are not allowed to graduate in the chosen session.

Candidates should check that the title of their thesis as indicated in the application is consistent with the title they have indicated in the pdf file. The title of the thesis can be modified within the upload deadline. Please remember that the indicated title will be included in degree certificates.

5) Approval of the final thesis

Your supervisor will approve the final dissertation within 3 days since the upload deadline. Please check the state of approval of your thesis and contact your supervisor if needed.

Degree diploma and certificates

Students will receive their diploma directly at the address they have indicated in www.studenti.unibo.it for communication purposes. Please check carefully the address you have indicated within your application and remember to modify it if needed.

If you would like that your diploma is sent to an address outside of Italy, please write an email to Registrar office (segecosta@unibo.it) indicating your name and the full address to which you ask the delivery of the parchment, and attach a copy of your passport. 

Students can get their degree certificates on www.studenti.unibo.it.

6) Final dissertation session

Graduation's conference call: how guests can join the call

In order to allow your guests to take part in the graduation remotely, click on the button “Ospiti” available in the Graduation procedure on Studenti Online. You will receive an email with the credentials that should be used to log in to Teams and access the graduation virtual room. These credentials can be used by multiple people at the same time. Only after, share the link included in the invitation.

Photographs and video during graduation session

For their graduation sessions, students and PhD students of all university campuses can freely choose any professional or amateur photographer/video camera operator to record the event.

The photographer/video camera operator chosen by students and PhD students are among the guests of the graduation session and they must:

• carefully follow the general instructions of the respective university unit;
• perform his/her service without causing any disturbance to the graduation session and other academic activities, showing respect for other people.     

The University of Bologna does not certify photographers/video camera operators for graduation sessions any longer (the previous regulation has been abolished).

Any inappropriate behaviour will be reported to university staff and/or to the President of the graduation board.

Deadlines

One graduation session is scheduled each year. The session includes a number of dates, each with their deadlines for the submission of the graduation application, requirements and dates.

Useful contacts:

Registrar Office 

segecosta@unibo.it

Indirizzo zoom
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9:00 - 12:00; Tuesday and Thursday 14:00 - 15:30

Tel +39 051 20 80334 (Monday 9:00 - 11:30)

Helpdesk Cesia 
From Monday to Friday 09,00-13,00 and 14,00-17,00 
helpstudentionline@unibo.it 
Tel.: +39 051 20 99 882