The opportunities offered by an international degree programme

There are 3 positions available each  year for the joint double degree programme. In order to be admitted to the double degree programme one must satisfy some criteria. The selection is based on the achievements of the students during the bachelor degree and the first semester of the first year of the programme and it is carried out at the end of the first semester of the first year, in correspondence of the Erasmus selection period; in order to be admitted, one must have obtained at least 10 credits.

The list of all possible destinations (including Lugano) is usually published between January and February of each academic year on AlmaRM. 

The exchange takes place between September and February (5 months) of the second year of the programme.

Path for students from UNIBO to USI 

The mandatory courses students will follow at USI will be: 

• Analysis of social networks (6 ECTS)
• Introduction to programming (Python) (6 ECTS)
• Advanced topics in machine learning (6 ECTS)
• Bioinformatics   (6 ECTS)

The elective courses that the students can choose at USI (at least 6 ECTS) are:

• Artificial intelligence (6 ECTS)
• Deep learning lab (3 ECTS)
• Machine learning (6 ECTS)
• Databases (6 ECTS)
• Analysis of social networks (6 ECTS)
• Introduction to data science (6 ECTS)
• Computational biology and drug design (6 ECTS)
• Distributed Algorithms (6 ECTS)
• Master thesis preparation (6 ECTS)
• Distributed System (6 ECTS)
• Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations (3 ECTS)
• Scattered Data Approximation (3 ECTS)
• Software Tools for Computational Biology (3 ECTS)

The following courses are more "computational" (but don't require advanced programming skills): 

• Algorithms & Complexity (6 ECTS)
• High performance computing (6 ECTS)
• Efficient computational algorithms (6 ECTS)
• Numerical algorithms (6 ECTS)

To attend the integrated study programme, students must comply with AT LEAST ONE of the following:

• Be a native English speaker;

• Have earned a degree taught entirely in English;

• Possess an authorized (IELTS, TOEFL, Cambridge English, TOEIC) English certificate, no older than 3 years;

The B2+ level on the CEFR corresponds to the following scores in internationally acknowledged exams: