Admission

If you hold an international qualification, before starting the application process please make sure you have completed the pre-evaluation procedure and that you have all the requirements for international students.

If you have a disability or an SLD (specific learning disability), you can request support for the admission test (when required) and specific support services during your studies.

For the 2023/2024 academic year, only student who access directly to the second year will be able to enrol in the Master's Degree in Business Administration. Please note that the enrolment in the second year is subject to the availability of places and is only possible for student who enroll with the recognition of at least 48 credits.

Certified understanding of English language at B2 is also required, to be shown at the moment of enrolment. Process of verification and cases of exemption are indicated in the specific section.

For admission to the second year in the case of enrolment with credit transfer, internal transfer or transfer, in addition to sitting the admission test and meeting all the admission requirements, you have to be assigned a place: all the information is published in the final part of this page.

Candidates who graduated from a Bachelor’s programme in Business Administration or in Economics (L-18 and L-33), or equivalent in the old university system (17 and 28).

If the candidate graduated from a different Bachelor’s programme, they must have achieved minimum credit requirements 60 ECTS in the following scientific disciplines:

Minimum credit requirements (CFU) in the following fields:

Field of business: 20 CFU (at least one exam from SECS-P/07 sector):
SECS-P/07 Management
SECS-P/08 Business Economics and Management
SECS-P/09 Corporate Finance
SECS-P/10 Organizational Behaviour and Design
SECS-P/11 Banking and Financial Institutions

In the fields of economics, law and statistics/mathematics: 40 CFU (at least one exam per field):

Economics Field:
SECS-P/01 Political Economics
SECS P/02 Economic Policy
SECS-P/03 Science of Finance
SECS-P/04 History of Economic Thought
SECS-P/05 Econometrics
SECS-P/06 Applied Economics
SECS-P/12 Economic History

Field of Law
IUS/01 Private Law
IUS/04 Business Law
IUS/05 Economic Law
IUS/07 Labor Law
IUS/09 Public Law
IUS/10 Administrative Law
IUS/12 Taxation Law
IUS/13 International Law
IUS/14 EU Law

Field of Statistical-mathematics
MAT/02 Algebra
MAT/03 Geometry
MAT/05 Calculus
MAT/06 Probability and Statistical Mathematics
MAT/08 Numerical Analysis
MAT/09 Operations Research
SECS-S/01 Statistics
SECS-S/03 Economic Statistics
SECS-S/06 Mathematical methods for Economics and Actuarial and Financial Sciences

In the case in which students are not in possession of the curricula requirements, they must retrieve them before enrollment exclusively by carrying out single programmes (Bachelor’s Degree level) at this or another university.

Personal preparation is understood as an adequate acquisition of knowledge and understanding of management, as acquired in the Bachelor’s programme in Business Administration and in Economics (L-18 and L-33) or equivalent in the old university system (17 and 28).

Personal preparation will be verified during the admissions test.

Admission test

You will have to take the admission test to the Master's Degree course in Management and Sustainability to verify your personal preparation and request the assignment of a place in the second year.

Enrolment with ECTS Accreditation

In order to enrol with credit recognition, make the internal transition or transfer from another university, you must ask for the evaluation of the exams already taken and the release of the credits recognition sheet.

For admission to the year following the first, in addition, you have to be assigned a place: all the information is published in the final part of this page.

The year of enrolment is established according to the number of university credits (ECTs) recognised:

  • Up to 47: admission to 1st year of this course is not allowed;
  • From 48 or more: admission to 2nd year. You will need to apply for a place and sit for the Admission test for the assessment of your personal academic preparation. You will refer to the study plan for the a.y. 2022/2023.

You may enrol in a Degree Programme requesting accreditation for the following previous studies and training activities:

  • Master's Degrees, or Master's Diplomas;
  • incomplete University studies as a result of withdrawal, lapsed status;
  • single courses;
  • Internship/traineeships/previous employment;
  • simultaneous enrolment.

The year of enrolment is determined on the basis of the number of University Credits (CFU) you have been awarded:

  • Up to 47: admission to 1st year of this course is not allowed;
  • From 48 or more: admission to 2nd year. You will need to apply for a place and sit for the Admission test for the assessment of your personal academic preparation. You will refer to the study plan for the a.y. 2022/2023.

Enrolment with recognition of credits is subject to the fee payment of 300.00 euros. The payment invoice will be provided upon confirmation of enrolment.

You are not obliged to pay if you request credit transfer from activities undertaken previously at Ca' Foscari (for example single courses) if the code of the lectures corresponds to that required by the study plan. In the case that some lectures do not fall among those indicated in the study plan, and are thus entered as free exams, you will be have to pay the fee of 300.00 euros.

Enrolment with credit recognition is not allowed to students concurrently enrolled in another University course and for which suspension has been requested.

Request period

There are two deadlines for requesting the issue of the record, to be used in the procedure for assigning the place in a year following the first:

  • from 2nd May to 26th June 2023;
  • by 21st August 2023.

Please refer to the Economics Campus for accreditation in studies in the field of Economics, to the Treviso Campus for Degree programme in International Trade and Tourism. 

You are required to submit:

  • a signed self-certification form listing exams. Please indicate for each exam: the name of the Course of study and class, the name of the University, the name of individual exams taken with their scientific area and weight in credits, the mark and the exam date. Please verify if self-certification is available in your University Reserved Area: if it is not available or, if all the required data is not listed, you may use the forms on this page;
  • any exam programmes in your possession.

Requests for accreditation are to be submitted to the Campus which will then be subject to evaluation by the Teaching Committee.  Once approved, the Accreditation Form will be sent to you via e-mail. Please remember to sign the form.

Warning! For the request for internal transfer there is no need to attach the self-certification. However, remember to report any exams that are not yet recorded.

Recognition forms

Assignment of the place for enrolment in the second year

In case of recognition of over 47 CFU, you will have to apply for a place: admission to the second year of a limited - access programme is in fact subject to the availability of places.

  • For the places available published on June 17th 2024

    • application for a place: from July 9th to July 11th 2024
    • publication of the ranking list: July 19th 2024

  • For the places available published on August 9th 2024

    • application for a place: from August 27th to August 29th 2024
    • publication of the ranking list: September 5th 2024

The ranking will be drawn up on the basis of the evaluation of the CV and motivation letter.

In the event of successful application, for the first round, you will have to complete the enrolment or transition by July 31st 2024, under penalty of losing the assigned place. If you request clearance for transfer from another university, however, you will receive all the instructions by e-mail.

To apply for a place for the first round, you must log in to the reserved area, select the "Evaluation test" and choose "Ammissione agli anni successivi al primo dei corsi ad accesso programmato". The procedure will be open from July 9th 2024.

You must attach:

  • your credits recognition sheet;
  • self-certification of having taken the exams for which you have been awarded credits;
  • your CV;
  • a motivation letter;
  • an identity document.

Warning! The procedure allows you to submit the application, in order of preference, for a maximum of three courses: if you enter more than one preference, you will have to attach the credit recognition sheet for each chosen course.

If you have never been a student at Ca’ Foscari you will have to:

  • register on the website;
  • access your personal area using your SPID or CIE (Electronic identity card) account.

On August 10th 2023 there are 2 places available for the second year.

Last update: 11/03/2024