STUDENT GUIDE
(2020 - 2021)
Master's degree programme in
CIVIL ENGINEERING (change programme)
Location: Torino
Class: CIVIL ENGINEERING
Advancing your Master's courses
If you are enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree programme at Politecnico and you are going to graduate after the October 2020 Graduation period (December 2020 or March 2021), you can advance some exams belonging to your future Master’s degree programme and take them during your Bachelor’s studies. You can anticipate ONLY first-semester courses of your Master’s first year, and only if you meet the following requirements:  

  • you have been admitted to a Master’s degree programme (we remind you that you can apply for admission if you have earned at least 140 credits at Bachelor’s level)
  • you have maximum 23 unearnedcredits before graduation (including the foreign language exam and the Final Project) at the end of the Fall examination session (September) + you have the average grade required for admission to a Master's degree programme  (admission requirements)
You can apply for admission to a Master’s degree programme and advance some of your Master’s courses even if you do not have a language certificate yet (and your Apply@polito page displays the following message «Language requirements unfunfilled»).
PLEASE NOTE:
If you are going to graduate in September and October, you DO NOT need to create your PSP/APSP for the new academic year and you should not advance any Master's course.  If you are admitted to a Master's degree programme, a section called "Insegnamenti/Courses" will become available on your Apply@polito page. From this section you will be able to choose your courses. The teaching material and class timetable of the courses you have selected will be visible on your personal page of the Teaching Portal.
After graduation, you will be able to enrol in your Master’s degree programme and fill in the corresponding PSP/APSP. 
How to advance your Master’s courses
To include these courses in your APSP, follow the procedure for the creation of your APSP (section "Procedure and Deadlines of the Student Guide 2020/21).
After admission to the Master’s degree programme you have chosen, you will be able to see the Master’s courses that can be advanced in your APSP (they will not be displayed in your PSP). They will be marked in violet. You will have to drag and drop them into your APSP following the procedure of creation of the APSP within the deadlines.
You can choose between two different enrolment workloads for your APSP:
  • full-time enrolment: in this case, you can include a maximum of 80 credits in your Annual Personal Study Plan including:
    • your Bachelor's incomplete courses (maximum 23 credits, including the foreign language exam and the Final Examination);
    • your Master's first-year courses offered in first semester. If you graduate by March, you will be able to enrol in your Master’s degree programme and you will pay only the cost of the revenue stamp. You will be able to add your Master's second-semester coursesto your APSP, bearing in mind that you need to stick to the limit of 80 credits per academic year. 
  • part-time enrolment: in this case, you can include a maximum of 40 credits in your Annual Personal Study Plan including:
    • your Bachelor's incomplete courses (maximum 23 credits, including the foreign language exam and the Final Examination);
    • your Master's first-year courses offered in first semester.
    • your Master's second-semester courses, if you graduate by March and you are going to enrol in a Master’s degree programme in second semester.
We remind you that if you choose a part-time workload in order to be able to advance your Master's courses, you will not be able to switch to a full-time workload upon enrolment in second semester. You must keep your part-time status.
You can advance the courses which belong to all the Master’s degree programmes (and all the majors available within the Master's degree programme) you have applied for. This means that if you have applied for two programmes, you can add the courses of both programmes to your APSP. Advancing some Master’s courses IS NOT equivalent to enrolling in a Master’s degree programme. Enrolment will be possible only after you get your  Bachelor’s degree.
If you have included in your APSP the Master’s courses that you want to advance but at end of the September examination session you still have more than 23 unearned credits to graduation,  these courses will be deleted from your APSP(1) 
(1) Our offices will verify this requirement after the exams taken in September are registered by the teaching staff. Therefore the results might become available at the end of October.
Important notice
  • Master’s courses can be advanced one time only during the entire duration of your Bachelor’s degree programme;  
  • if you have advanced some Master’s courses but you do no longer meet the requirements for this operation, these courses will be automatically deleted from your APSP;
  • courses which have been advanced (attended but not passed and/or passed and recorded in your transcript) will be automatically transferred to your Master’s APSP;
  • you are not allowed to advance any second-semester course;
  • if you have advanced some Master’s courses, but you do graduate by March, these courses will remain on your APSP and you will be able to take the corresponding exams during the Summer and Fall examination sessions;
  • if you pass the English language exam in the September IELTS session, the English credits will not count towards the limit of unearned credits allowed for advancing Master’s courses (max. 23 unearned credits) 
  • internships (already included in your APSP in previous academic years) and recordedin your transcript before 31st December do not count towards the limit of unearned credits allowed for advancing Master’s courses (max. 23 unearned credits);
  • if you have advanced some Master's courses and then decide to enrol in a different Master’s degree programme, you will not be able to include any first-semester course belonging to your new Master's degree programme. 
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