Final examination: modalities and deadline

THESIS SUPERVISOR

All the professors responsible of teaching activities can be chosen as thesis supervisors.

Students are required to graduate in a subject included in the teaching plan of their degree programme.

If a student wishes to write his/her dissertation in a subject that is NOT included in the teaching plan of the degree programme, she/he must submit a motivated request for authorization to the Degree Programme Director, before starting to write the thesis. This request must be sent to the Programme Coordinator at didatticaforli.lmsid@unibo.it .

CO-SUPERVISOR

The name of the co-supervisor has to be indicated in the online graduation application.

Please note: if the co-supervisor is external to the University of Bologna, the main Supervisor must submit a formal request to  didatticaforli.sps-sde.service@unibo.it, attaching the curriculum vitae of the external proposed expert.

THESIS EVALUATION

The Graduating Committee can assign from 0 to 6 points to the master’s thesis, on top of starting grade.

1st Deadline – Online graduation application:

By this deadline (by 11.59 pm CET) you have to:

1. fill in the online graduation application on Studenti Online (SOL)

( Link at SOL (English version) )

It is possible to submit the online application even in the event if not all the exams included in your study plan have been officially registered;

2. pay:

TWO stamp duties (for a total of 32 €) according to the methods indicated in the online graduation application, IF you applying for the first time, OR:

ONE stamp duty of 16 €, if you have already submitted a graduation application in the previous academic years, according to the methods indicated in the online graduation application.

Please note: The online graduation application is considered properly submitted only when the payment of the stamp duty (“imposta di bollo” in Italian) has been completed (please, see also the section “Payment methods”).

In the "view details" section of the graduation application, the "verification traffic lights" will be displayed in yellow and/or red until manual and individual verification by the Student Administration Office.

Manual checks can generally continue up to one week before the graduation.

Once the checks are completed, the status of the application will be changed to "requirements satisfied," and the traffic light will turn yellow (the traffic light turns green after the graduation grade is recorded).

Only in case of issues, you will be notified via your official Unibo email or contacted via Microsoft Teams or on your mobile phone.

2^nd Deadline – Possession of the requirements

By this deadline, you must:

1. Have paid all the tuition fees due for your entire academic career.
2. Have passed and officially recorded all the exams required by your study plan.

(you can check the records on AlmaEsami/Exams at Link to Alma Esami or via Studenti OnLine).

You will see a check light for the “Completion of the study plan” (in Italian, “Completamento del piano di studio”). It will automatically turn green, if your study plan complies with the rules provided in the related section of the Degree website. OTHERWISE, otherwise, it remains yellow (even if the study plan is completed) in the presence of exams recognized from previous careers, taken abroad, individual study plans, etc., until manual verification by the Student Administration Office (see "verification traffic lights" in the box above). Inform us as soon as possible via your institutional email at segforli@unibo.it if you have entered excess exams of type D (elective) that you do not intend to take.

3. Have completed the AlmaLaurea questionnaire online.

The link to the AlmaLaurea questionnaire appears within the online graduation application, and completion is recorded within a few hours after the questionnaire is completed.

4. Have uploaded: keywords, the abstract (see details within the online graduation application), and the final thesis in .pdf format (a single file with the cover page as the first page, followed by the signed originality declaration form and the thesis itself - see Attachments). It is not possible to upload the thesis after 11:59 PM on the Deadline 2.

3rd Deadline – Online thesis approval:

By this date (11:59 PM), you must have obtained the online approval of the thesis upload from your Supervisor.
Attention! Once the thesis is approved by the Supervisor, it cannot be modified. If the deadline is approaching and you haven’t received approval, contact the Supervisor.

Change of Graduation Session Choice
1) If, after submitting your online graduation application, you wish to change the date of your graduation session within the same academic year, you must:

• Send an email as soon as possible to the Student Administration Office (segforli@unibo.it), and they will cancel your current application;
• Log back into StudentiOnLine to book a new session – without any additional fees (no stamp duty) – by the new "1st Deadline " indicated in the calendar.
  This change can be made multiple times, always following the same procedure (email, cancel application, submit a new application).
  2) If you have submitted your graduation application and are unable to graduate by March (the last session to graduate in the academic year), you must:
• Send an email as soon as possible to the Student Administration Office (segforli@unibo.it), and they will cancel your application;
• Regularize your university fees;
• Submit a new graduation application (only paying the stamp duty).

Schedule of the final examinations and deadlines of online applications

(*)Extra fee =100 euro

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