Final examination: modalities

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.

The Board will assess your performance using your curriculum as a reference. During the dissertation discussion, you may use slides and the Commission may ask you in-depth questions on methods, results and any developments of your work

To submit your application online, you must access Studenti Online before the deadlines set for the application submission and the 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.

Students are expected to follow the formal requirements for thesis editing according to the Guidelines for thesis editing. See the attachment Thesis proposal.

Students are required to sign and bind the Statement of Originality in the thesis book to be delivered. See  the attachment Statement of Originality.

The administrative tasks to accomplish and the corresponding deadlines are reported in the graduation instructions ("administrative procedures and deadlines"). 

The graduation application has to be submitted on-line within the deadline reported each year in the "administrative procedures and deadline". For the instructions for applying see the attachment Graduation on-line application student manual.

• The graduating student prepares his/her thesis under the guidance of a supervisor, on a topic in line with the learning goals of the degree programme.
• Professors who have teaching activities in 24/25 a.y. (or in a.y. 25/26 starting from September 2026 session) in Mirees study plan can serve as supervisors. To carry out a thesis on a learning activity which is not included in the programme teaching plan it is necessary to obtain the preliminary authorization of the programme director, prof. Sonia Lucarelli.

Instructions and deadlines

*Extra fee =100€

The Graduation Committee members and the date and time of discussion of each graduating student, will be made available one week before the final examination date on Studenti Online www.studenti.unibo.it 

Please read carefully “Procedures and deadlines” and the other files attached.

Procedures and deadlines

Deadline 1 - Online submission of the application for the final examination (domanda di laurea):
Before that deadline (h. 23.59), you must:

• Fill in the online application on Studenti Online even if there are some exams that still have to be registered
• Pay the graduation fee according to the procedure indicated in the online application. When the payment has been done, the application is considered submitted.

Deadline 2 - Requisites
Before the deadline (see table above), you must:

• Have paid all due fees of your whole university career
• Have successfully passed and registered the exams listed in your study plan

Important: students who graduate within March, do not have to pay the tuition fees for the new academic year.

In case you have chosen additional exams (extra credits) in the “Group of choice of elective courses – type D” and you do not want to take them any longer, please inform the Student Administration Office at segforli@unibo.it as soon as possible.

Degree Certificate with Transcript of Records: from the on-line service Studenti Online (select: certificates and self-certifications) it is possible to download on-line certificates in Italian and English language (digitally signed by the University of Bologna) and self-certifications (available only in Italian language).

The Rector congratulates on this important milestone and trusts that the session will be conducted orderly, and invites the candidates and their guests to respect the rules of civil coexistence before, during and after the sessions.

In particular, the Rector reminds that it is forbidden to introduce glass bottles, confetti or other material likely to offend or disturb the sessions, and that, at the end of the sessions, it is forbidden to linger outside the structure and create gatherings.