Admission requirements
1. Admission requirements and assessment
This study programme has restricted access. The number of places is set annually by MIUR at national level; an entrance exam is set in the methods and on the dates set in the call for applications for the Healthcare Professions, published annually on the School website. Admission to the degree programme is subject to the possession of a five-year secondary school diploma or equivalent suitable qualification obtained abroad, or a four-year secondary school diploma and diploma for the relative supplementary year, or, where no longer active, admitted students will be assigned additional learning requirements.
Applicants shall also demonstrate the knowledge and competences defined annually by ministerial decree for the entrance exams to degree programmes with nationally restricted access.
The number of places, entrance exam date, contents and selection methods are published annually in the relative call for applications.
2. Assessment of basic knowledge
The knowledge and competence requirements for admission are deemed to be met by applicants who obtain the following scores in the entrance exam:
for students in the quota of Italian, EU and equivalent nationals: 20;
for students in the quota of non-EU citizens resident abroad, as laid down in the laws in force: 5.
The entrance exams will be held by 31 January of each year.
3. Additional learning requirements and assessment
Enrolled students who did not obtain the minimum score in the entrance exam will be assigned the following Additional Learning Requirements ("OFA"), which must be completed during the first year of the programme:
Basic Medical Knowledge.
The Additional Learning Requirements set are deemed to have been passed when students pass the exams in Physics, Statistics and Computer Science.
Students not completing the requirements by the date set by the Academic Bodies and published on the University portal will be required to re-enrol to the first year of the programme as repeating students.
4. Exemption of assessment of basic knowledge
Only applicants having obtained the credits indicated in the following subject areas in previous studies will be exempted from sitting the entrance exam:
- Subject area FIS/07 (Physics Applied to Cultural Heritage, the Environment, Biology and Medicine): 3 CFU
- Subject area INF/01 (Computer Science): 2 CFU
For students from the previous degree system under D.M. 509/99, exemption will be approved if they have passed at least one exam relating to the knowledge covered by the aforementioned subject areas.
Applicants to whom this clause refers should apply for exemption when submitting their application to the Student Administration Office.
The entrance exams will be held by 31 January of each year.
