Winter Session – MA 25.1

Final exam: Thursday, 20/03/2025 and/or Friday, 21/03/2025  (depending on the number of graduands)

Hand-in deadlines:

• Choice of supervisors and submission of the topic: 08/11/2024
• Mid-term presentation and discussion about work in progress: 09-10/01/2025
• Submission of written draft to supervisors: 21/02/2025
• Final exam enrolment / upload of final thesis mySNS / plagiarism check / Almalaurea: 06/03/2025
• Submission of 3 copies of the written thesis to the secretariat + submission of summary of project description of online media, catalogues and alike (for the press): 13/03/2025
• Photographic documentation + upload of the pictures to Showcase: 17/03/2025
• Presentation of thesis project and exam: 20 and/or 21/03/2025

Summer Session – MA 25.2

Final exam: Thursday, 17/07/2025 and/or Friday, 18/07/2025 (depending on the number of graduands)

Hand-in deadlines:

• Choice of supervisors and submission of the topic: 10/03/2025
• Mid-term presentation and discussion about work in progress: TBA
• Submission of written draft to supervisors: 17/06/2025
• Final exam enrolment / upload of final thesis mySNS / plagiarism check / Almalaurea: 03/07/2025
• Submission of 3 copies of the written thesis to the secretariat + submission of summary of project description of online media, catalogues and alike (for the press): 10/07/2025
• Photographic documentation + upload of the pictures to Showcase: 14/07/2025
• Presentation of thesis project and exam: 17 and/or 18/07/2025

Autumn Session – MA 25.3

Final exam: Thursday, 13/11/2025 and/or Friday, 14/11/2025 (depending on the number of graduands)

Hand-in deadlines:

• Choice of supervisors and submission of the topic: 11/07/2025
• Mid-term presentation and discussion about work in progress: TBA
• Submission of written draft to supervisors: 13/10/2025
• Final exam enrolment / upload of final thesis mySNS / plagiarism check / Almalaurea: 30/10/2025
• Submission of 3 copies of the written thesis to the secretariat + submission of summary of the project description of online media, catalogues and alike (for the press): 06/11/2025
• Photographic documentation + upload of the pictures to Showcase: 10/11/2025
• Presentation of the thesis project and exam: 13 and/or 14/11/2025

Supervisors

At least one supervisor has to be a tenured professor or a researcher (tenured professor or a researcher (Researcher with a fixed-term contract or AR) of the Faculty.

The first supervisor can be:

• a tenured professor or a researcher (Researcher with a fixed-term contract or AR) of the Faculty
• a contract professor of the Faculty (Teaching staff) 

The second supervisor can be:

• a tenured professor or a researcher (Researcher with a fixed-term contract or AR) of the Faculty
• a contract professor of the Faculty (Teaching staff)
  a professor and/or researcher of a national or international University or Research Institution
• an expert with proven professional experience (prior approval by the Study Course Director)

Each supervisor is available to the graduand for 5 hours until the date of the final exam.

Information

Each student has to check his/her own study plan.

In order to be able to submit the final topic, all 3 specialisation workshop courses provided by the curriculum must have been successfully completed (safety course does not count as a workshop course).

At the latest 15 days before the graduation exam, all credits necessary to obtain the degree must have been registered.

Final mark:

The commission can award a maximum of 110 points. The basis for the assessment is:

• the arithmetic average, calculated in hundred tenths and weighted by CP, of the curricular exams taken. The average is then divided by 3 and multiplied by 11. 0,5 points are added to the arithmetic average for each examination that was graded "cum laude";
• the points that the commission can award for the assessment of the thesis (max. 10 points).

For an outstanding thesis that achieves a grade of 110, a grade of 110 cum laude may be awarded. This requires the unanimous vote of the commission.

Thesis Regulation (German/Italian)

Thesis Guidelines