Final examination: modalities

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.

General information about the final examination

The final examination consists in writing a dissertation on a subject pertinent to your studies, elaborated in an original way, under the guidance of a supervisor. The dissertation will be discussed publicly during a specific final examination session in front of a Board.

Graduation application

Graduation applications need to be presented on Studenti Online and require the payment of €32.00 in stamp duty.

Applications submitted after the ordinary deadline but within the final cut-off date ("Late graduation application") must be submitted with a €100.00 late fee.

The graduation application is valid for just one graduation session. If you graduate in a later session, you will have to re-submit your graduation application and pay only the duty stamp.

Admission Requirements

In order to graduate, you must have:

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

The Student Administration Office will verify all requirements and will contact you if there are any issues, to allow you to regularise your position before the final examination.

The graduation application is valid for just one graduation session. If you graduate in a later session, you will have to re-submit your graduation application and pay only the duty stamp.

Graduation sessions and deadlines

Every academic year foresees a graduation session with different graduation periods ("appelli"), which take place generally in July, November and in March of the subsequent year. For every graduation period, there are specific deadlines to be respected for the presentation of the graduation application, the requirement fulfillment and for the dates of the defense of the final dissertation.

Graduation Sessions Accademic Year 2021/22

Attention: Students intending to graduate in the session of March 2023 cannot modify the study plan they submitted during the academic year 2021/22.

Attention: before uploading the final dissertation on SOL it is necessary to have it uploaded on Compilatio as pdf for the antiplagiarism check, following the modalities indicated here.

Graduation Sessions Accademic Year 2022/23

Students who are graduating in March 2024 cannot change the study plan submitted in the AY 2022/23.

Attention: before uploading the final dissertation on SOL it is necessary to have it uploaded on Compilatio as pdf for the antiplagiarism check, following the modalities indicated here.