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Welcome Days — MSc programs

Useful info, exciting programs, new friends

Your Bocconi learning experience starts on 24 August 2023 with the welcome and academic activities. Meet faculty, make friends and have fun!

Additional information on how to prepare before getting to Bocconi are available in your yoU@B student diary.

Welcome Days: the program

Start your university experience with the right foot and join us for introductory events, courses and activities.

Welcome to Bocconi

Welcome to all first year MSc students

28 August, 6:00pm — Aula Magna via Roentgen 1

Francesco Billari, Rector
Carlo Salvato, Dean, Graduate School


Know your program

Welcome from Directors and Kick-off Meeting
From 6 September

Meet your Program Director and the related career service consultant and listen to testimonies from your MSc program. Program Directors will introduce faculty members, describe the teaching model, the structure of the specific graduate degree program and will highlight important opportunities dedicated to MSc students.
Your Career Service consultant will provide an overview of the dedicated services and activities and will explain how you can actively plan your career since the beginning of your experience at Bocconi.

Timetable and classrooms are available here and in the yoU@B Agenda.

Preparatory courses

These courses consolidate several topics covered during the first year of your degree program and will help you start your Bocconi experience with more self-confidence and stable notions.

Some graduate degree programs offer online preparatory courses available starting from 24 July. In presence Prep courses will start on 24 August.

There will be also a short intensive Italian language online course to help you interact during the first days in Italy, more info will be published in the next days!

Timetable and classrooms are available online here and in the yoU@B Agenda.


Get information

Some areas where you can talk to our current students, clear your doubts and gather useful information.

Welcome Desk

24 August (from 2.00pm) - 6 September 
9:00am - 5:00pm Via Roentgen 1 (Monday - Friday)
Pick up your Welcome Kit and get information on university services, student life, campus facilities. You can ask for a campus tour as well. 

If you haven't picked up your Welcome Kit yet, you will be able to request it at the B in Touch Point starting from September 18, from Monday to Friday in the afternoon (from 2.00 to 5.00pm).

Welcome Lounge

25 -30 August

Talk to current students and listen to advice and suggestions from their own experience.

Each MSc program has dedicated representatives available at specific time slots and dates: check at the Welcome Desk upon arrival on campus or click here.

YesMilano  Workshops and Desk

YesMilano, the Milanese Chamber of Commerce agency for student internationalization, will be on campus on 30 August and 1 September with a dedicated desk. Open 9:00am-5:00pm, the desk will provide first-year students with information on relocating to Milan and life in the city.

YesMilano staff will also hold 4 in-person workshops on the national healthcare system and housing rentals in Milan in the following dates

  • 30 August - Aula AS01
    1:00-2:00pm The Italian National Healthcare System (SSN)
    2:00-3:00pm Housing Rentals in Milan
  • 1 September - Aula AS01
    12:00-1:00pm Workshop on Housing (How to rent well) + Q&A
    1:00-2:00pm The Italian National Healthcare System (SSN) and Transportation + Q&A


Know your campus

Bocconi has a lively campus life: it's time for you to know more about our students associations and extracurricular activities.

28 August - 15 September

Campus Life and Bocconi Sport team corner

A dedicated booth to discover cultural and sport activities, students dedicated spaces within the University and the New Bocconi Sport Center. 

From 11 September

  • Associations on display (10.00am-6.30pm)
    Student Associations present their activities. Discover here the program.
  • Students associations activities
    The Bocconi student associations welcome new students and present their activities

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