Undergraduate Language Requirements 2024-25

Bsc in International Government Students

Minimum Language Requirements

  • English: enrollment in Bachelor of Science in International Politics and Government;

  • All the other languages: level B1

For languages different than English, students must provide one of the options listed below:

  1. Bocconi Language Exam already registered in the Study Plan

  2. Enrolment in the Bocconi Second Language Course
    The minimum language requirement is considered temporarily fulfilled if the student is enrolled in the Bocconi language course of the language required by the school at the time of application.
    The final exam (oral exam) must be passed before departure.

  3. International Certificate
    For the list of the certificates accepted by the Study Abroad Office and correspondent level refer to the Bocconi Language Center Conversion table.
    For the Spanish language, the Study Abroad office accepts for the exchange application, the SIELE GLOBAL certificate (in on-site or remote mode).
    All the certificates must have been awarded no more than 3 years prior to the Exchange Program application deadline.
    Certificates must be submitted at the time of application to the program at Punto Blu by the set deadline.

  4. Secondary School Diploma awarded in the requested language.

  5. Citizenship to be certified by uploading the passport at the time of the application.

Additional requirements (for certain schools)


On top of the Exchange program minimum requirements, some partner schools have additional requirements (language, GPA, etc) indicated in the destinations brochure. In case of additional language requirements, applicants must provide one of the options listed.

For regulations about the certificate VALIDITY please take into consideration the following:
- TOEFL and IELTS (Academic) certificates must have been awarded no more than two years prior to the departure date for the Exchange period (please consider also second semester departure). If the student wants to be considered eligible for a specific destination, with a set number of slots available per term and additional language requirements are specified, he/she must have a certificate valid for both terms indicated on the destinations brochure.

Please note that, depending on the students' nationality and on the partner university's country, additional/other proof of Language ability may be required in order to comply with Immigration Policies (It is the students' responsibility to check the relevant Immigration websites).

ALL Bocconi students, even the ones who are mother tongue in English, French, German or Spanish MUST submit an international certificate if interested in applying for destinations where the certificate is needed to satisfy the ADDITIONAL LANUAGE REQUIREMENTS (ex. a British student MUST submit the TOEFL or the IELTS certificate if interested in applying for University of Pennsylvania).