General Information and Calendar

Extension of the exam session and final examination deadline to 15 June 2023

The exam session and final examination deadline for a.y. 2021/22 has been extended to 15 June 2023 (Decree-Law No. 316 Prot. no. 62200 of 7 March 2023).

If you were unable to graduate in March due to issues related to the pandemic, you can submit a graduation application for the extraordinary session, but only if you are enrolled regularly, “fuori corso” (past envisaged completion time for the degree course) or as a repeating student in a.y. 2021/22 in the last year of a full-length degree programme.

You are only eligible for this extension if your study plan was complete and you fulfilled all attendance requirements by the end of a.y. 2021/22. More specifically: if you are enrolled regularly, “fuori corso” (past envisaged completion time for the degree course) or as a repeating student in a.y. 2021/22 in the third year and, by the end of the academic year, you included in your study plan all the learning activities provided for in your degree programme in order to take the exams and graduate.

If you have to take exams in order to meet all the necessary requirements, please contact the teacher in question directly. Remember that the deadline for the requirements is the 21 April.

If you are a student required to take a University Language Centre language test, you can find the scheduled test date on the CLA website: a language test will be organised exclusively for students who submitted a graduation application for the extraordinary graduation session. All information about the test and the scheduled date can be found on the CLA website.

You are not eligible for this extension if:

• You failed to meet attendance requirements by the end of a.y. 2021/22;
• You made changes to your study plan in a.y. 2022/23 and took exams related to that study plan;
• You did not have a complete study plan, so in a.y. 2022/23 you had to make changes to include exams
• you are enrolled regularly, “fuori corso” (past envisaged completion time for the degree course or as a repeating student in a.y. 2021/22 in the third year, and in a.y. 2022/23 you made changes to your study plan to include exams because you did not have the 180 university credits you needed to graduate;
• If you were enrolled regularly in a.y. 2021/22 in the last year of a full-length degree programme and are now enrolled in a.y. 2022/23 as a repeating student.

Please note: this is not an early session of a.y. 2022/23. If you are enrolled in a.y. 2022/23 in the last year of a full-length degree programme, you are not eligible for this extension.

If you are eligible for this extension, from 31 March you must go to Studenti Online and select the extraordinary session. The dates of the session for most degree programmes are as follows:

• Deadline for application: 12 April
• late enrolment to the session 20 April
• Admission requirements deadline: 21 April
• Deadline for uploading your dissertation: 12 May
• Deadline for supervisor approval of the dissertation: 16 May
• The graduation session will be held from 22 to 30 May

Remember that if you have paid your tuition fees for a.y. 2022/23, you are entitled to a refund that will be processed after your graduation.

The Graduation Guidelines are available in the attached files.

How to apply for graduation – Deadlines

Application

The application for the admission to the final examination must be submitted online, through Studenti Online (SOL) and requires the payment of a 32 € fee. 

Applications submitted after the ordinary deadline but within the final cut-off date ("Late graduation application") must be submitted with a 100 € late fee.

Admission Requirements Deadline

Within the dates showed in the table below, students should:

- Have paid all their tuition fees;

- Have completed all exams. Please check on Almaesami that all your exams have been registered.

- Having submitted and completed the AlmaLaurea Questionnaire through Studenti Online (SOL).

From September 2015, students are required to upload their thesis on Studenti Online, together with an abstract and the key words: the thesis is then approved by the Superivisor. 

The paper copy is no longer necessary.

The Students Administration Office (Segreteria Studenti) will check each and every application: if some problems arise, students will be directly contacted and will be asked to regularize their position before the final examination.

The Application is valid only for one session. Students who wish to withdraw and/or postpone their graduation will have to apply again, following the entire procedure and paying extra-costs.

If students want to withdraw their Graduation Application they must inform the Students Administration Office (Segreteria Studenti – segscform@unibo.it) using their institutional e-mail address (name.surname@studio.unibo.it). The object of the mail should be ‘RINUNCIA LAUREA’.

Graduation Sessions and Deadlines

Each year there are three Graduation Sessions. In the table below please find all the deadlines for each session.

A.Y. 2022- 2023

A.Y. 2021 - 2022

(*)N.B:.: after this deadline it is not possible to modify nor substitute your thesis.

Writing your Thesis

The drafting of the thesis must be standard.

Pages: 32-35 lines, each one containing 65-70 letters (Accepted Fonts: Times, Courier o Helvetica)

- Written on both sizes;

- Cardboard cover lightweight, light colored, not bright;

- Figures and boards in UNI format (A4, A3);

- Boards folder adequately measured (A3 – correct thickness).