Requirements

Minimum Language Requirements

  • English: enrolment 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).