STUDENT GUIDE
(2025 - 2026)
Bachelor's degree programme in
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (change programme)
Location: Torino
Class: INDUSTRIAL 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 October 2025 (December 2025 or March 2026), you are allowed to advance some of your future Master’s courses (so you can take them while you are still a Bachelor’s student).  
You can advance only first-semester coursesof your Master’s first year, and only if you meet the following requirements:
 1 you meet all the admission requirements of the Master's degree programme you have chosen (curricular requirements, suitable academic performance)
 2 at the end of the Autumn examination session (September), you have a maximum of 23 unearned credits to graduation (including the English language exam and the Final Project - even if they were already included in your Annual Personal Study Plan of previous academic years).
You can apply for admission to a Master’s degree programme and request to advance some of your Master’s courses even if you do not have a language certificate yet (and your Apply page displays the following message «Language requirements unfulfilled»).
Please check the Language Requirements for admissions to the Master's degree programmes in 2025/26.
*You are allowed to add your Master's courses to your APSP even if you do not meet the 23-credit requirement at the time you create your APSP because Politecnico will verify if you meet this requirement after all the exam grades are registered in your transcript.
You will be able to enrol in the programme and create your Master's PSP/APSP after you earn your Bachelor’s degree. 
Please note:
  • Master’s courses can be advanced one time only during the entire duration of your Bachelor’s path. After including them in your APSP, they will remain in your APSP till Bachelor's graduation, but you will not be able to add new Master's courses to your Bachelor's APSP. IMPORTANT: even if you have advanced some Master’s courses and you have included them in your past APSP, you will need to apply for admission to the Master’s degree programme in the academic year in which you want to enrol;
  • If you have advanced some Master’s courses but you do not meet the requirements for this operation (academic performance), you will not be able to enrol in the Master’s degree programme. In any case, your Master’s courses will remain in your Bachelor’s APSP.
  • Courses that have been advanced (attended but not passed and/or passed and registered) will be automatically transferred to your Master’s APSP.
  • You are not allowed to advance any Master's course offered in second semester.
  • 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) recorded in your transcript before 31 December will not count towards the limit of unearned credits required for advancing Master’s courses (max. 23 unearned credits). 
HOW TO ADVANCE YOU MASTER'S COURSES
  • Submit your application for admission to the Master's degree programme you have chosen through the Apply@polito platform. You can apply for a maximum of two Master's degree programmes.
    • If you apply for a Master’s degree programme taught both in English and in Italian, it won’t be counted as 2 programmes, but as a single choice  (eg. Ingegneria Meccanica + Mechanical Engineering = 1 choice)
  • Wait for the outcome of the admission process. If you have been admitted to the Master’s degree programme/s you have selected, you can advance some exams belonging to your future Master’s degree programme. You are allowed to advance all courses belonging to both Master’s degree programmes (and all the specialist pathways available within the Master's degree programmes) 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 your Master’s courses IS NOT equivalent to enrolling in a Master’s degree programme. Enrolment will be possible only after you earn your  Bachelor’s degree.
  • Log in to your personal page of the Teaching portal  - Online Services TAB -  Create your PSP/APSP portlet: here you will visualize the Master’s courses that can be included in your Bachelor’s 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.
Further information on the procedure to define the personal study plan are reported on the chapter creating you PSP/APSP of the student guide of the a.y. 2025/26. 
 IMPORTANT
 If you get your Bachelor’s degree in the September or October session:
  • you do not need to complete your Personal Study Plan/Annual Personal Study Plan for the new academic year.
  • you do not need to advance any Master’s course
If you are not sure that you will be able to graduate in the October session:
  • you need to fill out your Annual Personal Study Plan by the deadline, without enrolling in the programme.
  • by doing so, you will be able to advance some Master’s courses if your graduation is postponed.
After the admission:
  • after receiving a positive evaluation (offer of admission), you will see the “Courses” section on your Apply@polityo platform.
  • Here you will be able to select your Master's courses, read the teaching materials and view the schedule of classes from your personal page of the Teaching Portal.
TYPE OF ENROLMENT
You can choose between two different enrolment workloads for your APSP:
  • FULL-TIME ENROLMENT: you can include a maximum of 80 credits in your APSP including:
    • your Bachelor's incomplete courses (maximum 23 credits, including language exams and the Final Examination);
    • your Master's first-year courses advanced in first semester.
    • your Master's second-semester courses, if you graduate by March and enrol in second semester.
  • PART-TIME ENROLMENT: you can include a maximum of 40 credits in your APSP including:
    • your Bachelor's incomplete courses (maximum 23 credits, including the foreign language exam and the Final Examination);
    • your Master's first-year advanced courses offered in first semester.
    • your Master's second-semester courses, if you graduate by March and you enrol in second semester.
 More information about the types of enrolment is available in the Tuition Fee Regulations 2025/2026.
ENROLLING IN A MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME AFTER ADVANCING SOME MASTER'S COURSES
We remind you that advancing some of your future Master's courses does NOT mean that you are automatically enrolled in the programme. After getting your Bachelor's degree, you will have to complete the enrolment process from the EVALUATIONS section of the Apply@polito platform by 27 March 2026. Enrolment will be possible after your graduation grade is recorded in your transcript (Student status: GRADUATED). 
After completing the enrolment process, you will have 10 days to create your Master's PSP/APSP. Please remember that: 
  • you are not allowed to include any first-semester course that had not been originally advanced, unless they are courses offered through video lectures, marked with a green video camera on the course catalogue page;
  • you are allowed to include also second-semester courses of your Master's second year.
IMPORTANT: if you get your Bachelor’s degree in the March session.
 
Before enrolment:
  • you can select the second-semester courses of your Master’s first year in the  “Courses” section of the Apply@polito platform.
  • By doing so you will be able to attend classes while you wait to be able to enrol in the programme.
After selecting and saving your courses on the Apply@polito platform, they will become visible:
  • in the Courses / EXTRA section of your personal page/app.
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