As a student of the Master’s degree programme in Architecture Construction City you can choose to attend this programme entirely taught in English or with classes both in English and Italian.

If you wish to attend this programme entirely in English, you need to choose this option when you create your Personal Study Plan/ Annual Personal Study Plan by 21^st September 2020. Your Personal Study Plan automatically displays only the exams that are available in English. The deadline for the creation of your Annual Personal Study Plan is 21^st September 2020 as well. Your APSP has to include the courses that you want to take this academic year.   

If you wish to attend this programme with classes taught both in English and Italian, you need to choose this option when you create your Personal Study Plan/ Annual Personal Study Plan by 21^st September 2020. Your Personal Study Plan automatically displays the generic codes of the various types of exams. The deadline for the creation of your Annual Personal Study Plan is 21^st September 2020 as well. Your APSP has to include the generic codes of the courses that you want to take this academic year. Students are allocated their courses on the basis of merit according to the preferences they stated during the definition of their Personal study plan/Annual Personal Study Plan.

You are required to express your course preferences through the procedure for the definition of the Personal Study Plan - Annual Personal Study Plan indicated below:

to list your courses in order of preference make sure you include the course title and generic code of each typology of exam indicated.

You can find the course titles and codes on the Teaching Portal: course catalogue – Master’s degree programmes – name of your programme – Course programme (curriculum). To express your order of preferences, log into your personal page of the Teaching Portal, go to “Segreteria online”/"On line services", choose the box “Fill in your PSP/APSP” and click on “View more”.  

After the deadline for course selection, Politecnico counts how many students have chosen each generic code. This number is equally distributed so that places in each course of the same kind are offered  to students on the basis of their preferences and position on the ranking list.   
If too many students have chosen the same course and they have the same position on the raking list, places in the course will be offered taking into account the number of exams passed with honors by each student, and (subsequently) by random computerized drawing.    

For allocations of first-semester courses merit is calculated taking into account the exams taken within the July 2020 examination session.

For allocations of second- semester courses  merit is calculated taking into account the exams taken within the September 2020 examination session.  

Outgoing students must not express any preference for courses that are offered during the semester they will be away for.  

     
Incoming students (double degree / Erasmus + / bilateral agreement) must not express any course preference at all. They will choose their Ateliers and Workshops with their Academic Advisor during a meeting which will take place at the beginning of each semester before classes start. The Incoming Mobility Office is in charge of course allocations for  incoming students. Decisions are made in accordance with the Academic Advisors on the basis of residual seats.  

When to list your courses in order of preference  

Master’s degree programme students You must list all your courses in order of preference (both 1^st and 2^nd semester courses) when you create your Personal Study Plan/ Annual Personal Study Plan: 
from 24^th July to 21^st September 2020 (merit-based allocations)    

   
The order of preference of all the Design Units and all the Ateliers provided during the first semester must be expressed during the definition of the Personal Study Plan/Annual Personal Study Plan from 24^th July to 21^st September 2020 (attribution according to merit ranking).

The order of preference of all the Design Units and all the Ateliers provided during the second semester must not be expressed during the definition of the Personal Study Plan/ Annual Personal Study Plan but in a period that will be communicated later.

Merit-based score calculation 

The merit ranking list is calculated as follows:  

Bachelor’s students who anticipate Master’s courses  

Merit-based score calculation 

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    Number of semesters from student’s first enrolment in the university system

   

Merit-based score calculation  

(Bachelor’s overall weighted average grade * 180) + [(GR1 * CFU1) + (GR2 * CFU2) + (GRn + CFUn)

6 + Number of semesters from student’s first enrolment in a Master’s degree programme

"6" refers to the minimum number of semesters required to achieve a Bachelor’s degree.  

The number of semesters is counted starting from the student’s first enrolment in a Master’s degree programme. Only the exams validated by Politecnico are taken into account for the score.

Dopo aver definito il Piano carriera/carico didattico la procedura rimanderà ad una nuova pagina attraverso la quale sarà possibile esprimere l'ordine di preferenza degli insegnamenti relativi ai soli codici generici presenti nel proprio carico didattico. Sarà possibile stabilire l’ordine di preferenza degli insegnamenti proposti attraverso l’uso delle frecce indicatrici o trascinandoli (drag and drop), come mostrato a titolo esemplificativo nella Fig. 1.

After defining the Personal study plan/Annual personal study plan, the procedure will refer to a new page through which it will be possible to express the order of preference of the courses relating only to the generic codes present in one's annual personal study plan. It will be possible to establish the order of preference of the proposed courses by using the indicator arrows or by dragging and dropping them (drag and drop), as shown by way of example in Picture 1.

Picture. 1

In order to achieve your Master’s degree you need to gain the credits of the 4 Specific Subjects that are included in your curriculum (see your Course programme).  As a general rule, you can gain these credits by taking:

• 2 Design Units (one 14-credit Design Unit + one 20-credit Design Unit) and:
• 2 regular courses (face-to-face classes).

In this case you must include in your Annual Personal Study Plan (APSP) the two Specific Subjects for which you have not gained any credits during your first-year Design Units. * 

You must choose your specific subjects when you create your PSP/APSP.   

Among the Specific Subjects offered by Politecnico there are several courses with the same scientific disciplinary field. If demands exceeds available seats on a course, Politecnico will use a merit-based criteria to readjust the number of students in each course. For this reason these course allocations are to be considered provisional until classes begin.    

If you want to attend a course of the Master's Degree Architecture construction city  which belongs to the group of Related Subjects (discipline affini o integrative), you must select and include it in your Personal study plan/Annual personal study plan during the phase of PSP/APSP creation. Students are not allocated these courses on the basis of a merit ranking list.