STUDENT GUIDE
(2025 - 2026)
Bachelor's degree programme in
DESIGN AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION (change programme)
Location: Torino
Class: INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Advancing your Master's courses
Please note:
  • it is possible to advance courses only once during the Bachelor's degree programme. Once advanced, the Master's degree courses will remain in the APSP until the Bachelor's degree is awarded, but it will not be possible to add new courses to be advanced; 
  • those who advance courses of the Master's degree programme in the Collegio di Architettura and are allocate according to the merit ranking to Introductory Seminars in English, will have to attend them even in the absence of English language knowledge certification;
  • advanced courses (attended but not passed and/or passed and registered) will be reversed to the career of the chosen Master's degree programme;
  • you can only advance first-semester courses belonging to the first year of a Master’s degree programme;
  • if you pass the English language exam by September, the English exam credits will not count among the 23 unearned credits;
  • any internship, if it was included in the Annual Personal Study Plan of the academic year preceding the one for which you are applying, will not fall among the 23 unearned credits, provided that the internship is registered in your transcript by 31st December;
  • if you included some Master’s courses in your APSP but at end of the September examination session you still have more than 23 unearned credits these courses will be deleted from your APSP. You need to apply again for admission in the next academic year and wait for a new evaluation of the Admissions Committee;
  • to those who will have placed advances in the APSP, but will lose the average requirement, in the event that they have not received a positive portfolio evaluation these courses will be removed from the APSP. For access to the new academic year, it will be necessary to reapply through the Apply procedure and wait for the portfolio evaluation.
  • If you advanced some of your Master’s courses but you do not earn your Bachelor’s degree by the end of the February graduation period, you will be able to take these exams in the Summer and Fall examination sessions.
It should also be noted that: 
  • You can submit your application even if you haven’t earned your Bachelor’s degree yet, but you need to have earned at least 140 credits at Bachelor’s level on the date of application submission by July 2025.
  • at the end of the autumn examination session (September), you only have a maximum of 23 credits still unearned* (including the English language exam and the Final essay).
If you do not yet have the language certification, you can still submit your career evaluation request and request advances even if the warning “Language requirements not met” appears.
PLEASE NOTE: Those who intend to obtain a Bachelor's degree in the September session should NOT fill in the PSP and APSP for the academic year 2025/26. They should therefore NOT take any advance courses for the Master's degree program. After obtaining the first-level degree, they may enroll in the master's degree program and fill out the relevant PSP and APSP.
 Procedure:           ·         
  • Send the application for admission to the Master's degree via the Apply@polito platform by the deadline;
  • Wait for the positive evaluation for admission to the selected Master's degree programme;
  • log into the personal study plan/annual personal study plan portlet on the personal page: the Master's degree courses to be advanced will appear in the list of exams that can be included in the annual personal study plan, marked by the "anticipo LM" Status (in the personal study plan the courses will not be present) and must be included in the annual personal study plan by the deadline.
For information regarding the creation of the personal study plan/annual personal study plan, please refer to the "Create your PSP/APSP" section of the A.A. 2025/26 Student Guide”.

FULL-TIME  ENROLMENT WORKLOAD

  • When you create your Annual Personal Study Plan you need to include your Bachelor’s incomplete courses (with pending exam) and your first-year Master's courses offered in first-semester.        
  • If you get your Bachelor’s degree by February, you will be able to enrol in the Master’s degree programme you have chosen. You will pay only the cost of the revenue stamp and you will be able to add also your Master's second-semester courses, bearing in mind that you need to stick to the limit of 80 credits per academic year.  

PART-TIME ENROLMENT WORKLOAD 
  • You need to stick to the above mentioned restrictions and include a maximum of 40 credits in your APSP.  If you get your Bachelor’s degree by February, you will be able to enrol as a part-time student in the Master’s degree programme you have chosen. In this case you will create a new APSP, following the rules for part-time enrolment.
  • You will pay the cost of the revenue stamp only.    
Having anticipated the Master's degree courses does NOT mean that you will automatically be enrolled in the Master's degree programme once you have obtained your first-level degree: enrolment must be completed from the Apply@polito platform's EVALUATIONS section by respecting the deadlines (see deadlines section)


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