Applications for the academic year 2020-2021 are now open.
(Please read carefully the procedure below)
Foreign students, who possess a B.Sc. degree (or equivalent) in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and are interested in pursuing their studies in the ICT field, are very welcome to the M.Sc. program in Internet and Multimedia Engineering. Below you can find some notes about the steps needed to enrol in our M.Sc. Program.
Steps to Enroll in our M.Sc. Program
1) The first step is to upload your documentation to our repository at http://www.ime.politecnica.unige.it/submission/ (primarily, a copy of your degree certificate in English, a transcript and a short CV, plus other documents that you deem relevant); we will perform a pre-evaluation of your suitability and provide you feedback. In the positive case, you can ask our Foreign Students Office (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) for a standard letter to be presented to the Italian Embassy/Consulate in your country of residence. Please, note that for the pre-evaluation you are NOT required to submit the documents in the official form certified by the Embassy/Consulate. It is sufficient to provide them in English, French, Spanish, or German, even without a certified translation.
2) The second step is to apply through the Italian Embassy/Consulate institution in your country. This phase is called “pre-enrolment”by our administration. You should contact the closest Italian Embassy/Consulate in your country and inform them that you wish to enrol in this M.Sc. program. They will give you details about the forms to fill in and the official documents to provide. Then, after you have completed their submission, they will inform the University of Genoa of your application.
The time window to present applications to the Italian Consular authorities abroad is decided every year by the Ministry of Education and Research (MIUR) and goes approximately from March to July. You can periodically check our website for further information about the exact dates.
Please also note that further information on procedures for enrolment (in English) can be found also at https://unige.it/usg/en/international-enrolment.
Regarding possible scholarships, for the time being, the ones available are those of Aliseo (https://www.aliseo.liguria.it/foreign-students/), an Agency of the local administration; the call for applications for each year is published also in English (e.g., see https://www.aliseo.liguria.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/info-for-foreign-students-FIRST-YEAR-a.y.-2019-2020.pdf regarding the call regarding the academic year 2019-20). New applications will open later - approx. in July-Aug. 2020. Aliseo scholarships also entail exemption from tuition fees. In any case, please keep in mind that these scholarships provide only an additional small economic support and are by no means sufficient for living in Italy. We do not provide any “fully funded” scholarship.
