Master's degree programme in
CYBERSECURITY (change programme)
Location: Torino
Class: COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Forfeiture
RULES IN FORCE FROM 7TH JANUARY 2025Following the entry into force of the new Student Regulations, approved by the Academic Senate on 17th December 2024, and issued by Rectoral Decree No. 1451 on 23rd December 2024, new provisions on the forfeiture (Art. 15) have been introduced.
The 2025/26 Student Guide will provide information on deadlines and procedures.
If you are enrolled in a Master's degree programme and you do not pass any exam for two consecutive years, or you do not pass all your exams (except for the thesis) in four years, you are considered as a forfeited student. In this case, you cannot continue your studies in the same academic path. After forfeiture, you are allowed to re-enrol in a Master’s degree programme of the Engineering area, provided that you meet the admission requirements.
The rules on forfeiture provided by article 15 of the Student Regulations are applicable to the students who first enrolled at Politecnico starting from a.y. 2016/2017.
The rules on forfeiture also apply to the students who first enrolled at Politecnico before a.y. 2016/2017, but in this case, the number of years of enrolment is calculated starting from a.y. 2016/2017 a.y., instead of taking into account the actual date of the first enrolment.
Students enrolled in a Master's degree programme of the system/ordinamento DM 509/1999
You incur automatic forfeiture if you do not pass all the exams (except for the thesis) in four years; for this reason, if you do not pass all your exams (excluding the Final Examination/Thesis) by the end of the September 2024 examination session, you will be considered as a forfeited student starting from 1/10/2024.
- A year of full-time enrolment counts as 1 year.
- A year of part-time enrolment counts as 0,5 year.
- Each year of non-enrolment counts as 1 year.
- any years of voluntary suspension from studies do not count towards forfeiture.
Academic years 2019/20 and 2020/21 do not count towards the total number of academic years for the purpose of forfeiture (this rule is valid only for students who were enrolled in aa. yy. 19/20 and 20/21. For students who were not enrolled in aa. yy. 19/20 and 20/21, these two years will be counted for the purpose of forfeiture)
Students who risk to incur in forfeiture from1st October 2024 will see the change of status to "ACTIVE-ABOUT TO INCUR FORFEITURE" on their personal page of the Teaching Portal, while students who had forfeited in previous academic years will see the status "FORFEITED" and the date of forfeiture.
Students with the status "ACTIVE-ABOUT TO INCUR FORFEITURE":
- cannot enrol in a.y 2024-2025
- cannot request an internal transfer to another Master's degree programme
An appeal to the Rector for deferment of the terms of forfeiture is permitted only in the event of serious and certifiable reasons that took place during the course of studies and had an impact on the student’s academic progress. The appeal must be submitted within two months of the date of forfeiture, i.e. by 1st December 2024. As a general rule, appeals for forfeiture which took place in previous academic years are not accepted. In order to request an appeal to the Rector for deferment of the terms of forfeiture, students must send a Ticket, selecting the topic “ACADEMIC PROGRESS, RULES AND OTHER INFORMATION/ACADEMIC CAREER” providing the reasons for the appeal. Following a preliminary evaluation, students can be requested to provide further supporting documents (in the event of health issues the documents need to specify the time frame in which the problem occurred and a medical certificate produced by a doctor/ health facility based in Italy must be provided). Serious problems that took place prior to enrolment as well as during a.y. 2019/20 and a.y. 2020/21 will not be taken into account for the evaluation of the appeal (these two academic years do not count towards the total number of years for the purpose of forfeiture). If the appeal is accepted, the waiver will be valid for a.y. 2024/25. Therefore, in order to avoid forfeiture, students must drop the condition "ACTIVE-ABOUT TO INCUR FORFEITURE" by the end of the last examination session of a.y. 2024/25
The procedure that you need to follow to re-enrol at Politecnico after forfeiture is the following:
- verify the admission requirements (including the language requirements for admission), the deadlines and the online procedure. They are available on the website dedicated to to Master's admissions for a.y 2024-2025;
- in order to submit the request for a new enrolment you must have settled any pending fees from your last year of enrolment, as provided for in the Tuition Fee Guide 2024/2025.
- you are allowed to request the recognition of the credits earned in your previous forfeited career.
When you are declared a forfeited student, you lose the status of student enrolled in a degree programme at Politecnico di Torino. The student status is the basis on which your visa had been issued and is the reason for your permit to stay in the Italian territory. If this is your case, please check the Immigration section of our website.
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