Undergraduate Academic Recognition

1) Check the list of courses previously available
When considering the various alternatives in terms of schools and destinations, look at the information on the courses offered by the host university (indicated in the Exchange destinations), visit the list of courses taken abroad in the Course history, and read the experience of the former exchange students' reports. 
Where no course information is available, these are new schools, schools reintroduced to the network after a few years, or destinations where there have been no students from your degree program recently.

Please consider that at the Pre-selection stage, it is not possible to know with certainty which courses will be available at the partner schools. In most cases, the updated course offer for your mobility year does not yet exist, and part of the other schools' offerings may not be open to Exchange students, or may have limited seats, or may require academic prerequisites.

2) Check the courses that are forbidden to take abroad

Please consider, that some courses cannot be validated if taken abroad:

• computer tests;
• compulsory courses from another specific degree course
• banned courses: see List of compulsory courses which cannot be recognized (see Guide to the University chapter 7.14).
  
  Course's language requirement:
• For CLEAM Exchange Program or Free-Mover Semester students in countries where sitting exams in English is not possible, the Bocconi Study Plan requirement is zero elective taught in English instead of 1. (see Guide to the University chapter 9.3.1)

3) It is not necessary to change your Study Plan in advance

In order to give more flexibility in the courses choices, Bocconi students participating in International programs have the possibility to modify their study plan one extra time once back from the exchange through Punto Blu available in the yoU@B student Diary. (see Guide to the University chapter 9.3.4).

1) Check the Academic Offer at the Partner School

The official list of courses available at the partner university will be given after the application to the partner school, according to their schedule. It is your responsibility to look at the courses content summaries  in the online course profiles and find possible matches with the courses taught at the partner schools through the above-mentioned web tools.

Consider that both courses with and without correspondence (need to be validated), but they involve different administrative procedures for you to follow:

• Conversion with correspondence
  These courses have a Bocconi equivalent course and must be approved on the Recognition Platform by the professor responsible for the corresponding course. For BAI, BGL, and BEMACS students, approval is given by the Degree Program Director or delegate. These conversions can be inserted in your Bocconi career as mandatory, elective, or additional exams (in this last scenario, please always verify on the Guides to the University the Study Plan Office rules for additional educational activities exam insertion).
• Conversion without correspondence
  These conversions do not have a corresponding course at Bocconi and they will be approved, through the Recognition Platform, by the Program Director who has an overall view of your Study Plan. These conversions can be inserted in your Bocconi career either as elective or additional exams (in this last scenario, please always verify on the Guides to the University the Study Plan Office rules for additional educational activities).

3) Start inserting your requests
If the exam you want to take abroad is not available on the list on the Recognition Platform you can enter a new request.
In some cases, it is possible that you will find many courses already approved (green flag). If you select these courses you do not need to get any preliminary approval: once back, after you send the recognition request, these courses will be automatically registered into your study plan.(see sez. Upon return)

It is not possible to have validated 1 course taken abroad with 2 Bocconi courses; on the other hand, 2 or more courses taken abroad can be either recognized into 1 Bocconi course, or can be recognized into 1 elective without correspondence. 
In case of two or more foreign exams covering one Bocconi exam, the final grade is obtained by the grade point average of the corresponding Bocconi grades obtained, using the foreign credit points specified on the Transcript issued by the host university as the weighted coefficient. 

Remember that in order to obtain a preliminary approval, for each new request student must send to the professor/Director an overall description of the course you wish to attend abroad. The Bocconi professor/Director has to receive the pdf version of the analytic syllabus of the course (e.g. course description and level - objectives, contents, lectures and/or special workloads, written/oral exam, the number of credits assigned to the course and/or the number of classroom and lecture hours, the local instructor's contacts).

If you need more information on this procedure, please check our video tutorial through B in Touch.

1) Transcript reception

Only at the end of the Exchange, students can finalize the recognition of the exams taken abroad by entering a request through the Recognition platform available in the yoU@B Diary.
The requests can be submitted by students only if the final and official Transcript of Records with grades of the exams taken abroad has been received (electronic version is allowed).
The time to receive the transcript can vary from school to school and in some cases, it can take months from the end of the term abroad: students that receive the Transcript at their home address shall upload a copy of it through the Recognition platform, available by the yoU@B student Diary.

Please remember that there is no deadline for the recognition procedure, but students need to pay attention to the Study Plan completion date depending on the graduation session they want to join.

2) Submission of the recognition request

Students are allowed to send only one request for recognition, therefore it is important that this request includes all of the courses that the student may wish to convert from their experience abroad.

3) Processing and graduation timeline

Students will be informed via their yoU@B student Diary when the request has been processed.

For students taking part in the Exchange Program during the Spring Term: consider that the timing of semesters and Transcript release might not be aligned with Bocconi timeline.
Therefore, it may not be possible to graduate in July and/or to be compliant for the 2° Round of MSc applications at Bocconi due to the time needed to transfer exams taken abroad.