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SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT

Academic year 2024/2025

Those who finish upper secondary school in 2024 can use SAT, ACT, GRE and GMAT tests taken in the period between 1 January and 31 December 2023  as an alternative to the TOL test.  These alternative tests can be used only to access the first early enrolment phase from 6 May to 13 June 2024:

  • for Engineering programmes delivered in Italian
  • for Civil Engineering programmes delivered in English


Remember that you must register your alternative test certificate  in the Online Services  by 11:59:59 (CEST) on 6 May 2024.
If you do not register by the deadline, you will not be able to use your alternative test.

The tests must be:

  • taken between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023
  • registered by 11:59 (CEST) on 6 May 2024

To register, please download and fill in the form below:

You can submit the registration form:

  • via chat (during certain hours)
  • by email/trouble ticket 
  • in person to the Registrar's Office or by a third person with a proxyby appointment only.

For more details you can contact the International Students Office

Scores required

SAT (Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and Maths sections, with a minimum score of 520 in each of the two sections).

Please send your SAT report Score to Politecnico di Milano on the College Board website.

ACT ( English, Maths, Reading, Science sections) with a minimum score of 20 in each section.

GRE (General Test) with a minimum score of 153 in the “Verbal” section and 144 in the “Quantitative” section and with any score in the “Analytical Writing” section.

When taking the test, remember to give the test provider the Institution code “0495” for automatic transmission of the certificate to the Politecnico. 

GMAT with the minimum Total Score of 500 (Verbal and Quantitative sections), with any score in the Analytical Writing and Integrated Reasoning sections.

Go to the page When to enrol

If you do not yet know your upper secondary school final mark, you can proceed with conditional enrolment.
The deadline to enter your upper secondary school final mark in your Online Services > Laurea (equivalent to a Bachelor of Science) and five-year single-cycle programmes: entrance or receovery tests and enrolment" > Enrolment is 13 September 2024.
Those who will receive their final mark after 13 September are requested to contact the Registrar’s Office

There are no concessions or discounts based on upper secondary school final marks.

How to enrol

To proceed with enrolment, you must pay the first instalment. Access the Online Services and click on the link "Laurea (equivalent to a Bachelor of Science) and five-year single-cycle programmes: entrance or recovery tests and enrolment" select "Test Result and Enrolment" and click on "click here to enrol", answer the questions and select the payment method:

  • IMMEDIATE PAYMENT by credit or prepaid card (PagoPA form 1)
    Continue until the enrolment receipt is printed.
  • DEFERRED PAYMENT via home banking or at accredited Payment Service Providers (PagoPA form 3)
    We advise you to re-enter and print your enrolment receipt.

There are no benefits nor reductions of the first instalment based on the final secondary school grade. 

Enrolment A.Y. 2023/2024 - Reduced instalment  (Information for the A.Y 2024/2025 will be published soon)

If you enrol in 2023/2024 for a Laurea programme (equivalent to Bachelor of Science), you may be entitled to a reduction in the first instalment if your ISEE (Equivalent Economic Situation Indicator) for 2023 (use “Diritto allo Studio Universitario benefits”) is less than €27,740.

In order to be entitled to the reduction in anticipation of your prospective enrolment, we advise you to request and enter the date of your ISEE 2023 (use "Diritto allo Studio Universitario benefits") in Online Services as early as possible or at least 10 to 15 days before the period in which you will enrol.
To enter the date of signing the DSU (Single Self-Declaration), go to Online Services under “ISEE entry for enrolment”.
It takes INPS a maximum of 10 days to process your information and communicate it to the Politecnico. If you enter your ISEE later, our system may not process the possible reduced first instalment and you may then have to pay the first instalment in full.
The reduction on the first instalment is linked to your ISEE 2023 indicator and will have to be confirmed by your ISEE 2024, which you will have to submit from January 2024.

For further informatim see also:

How to request a programme change

If, during this academic year, you have already enrolled on a study programme at Politecnico, in order to enrol on another programme belonging to a different School for which you are eligible, you must request a programme change, i.e. to transfer your enrolment to the new study programme. Your payment of the first instalment will be considered valid.

To request a programme change:

Go to your Online Services - Test Results and Enrolment and, next to the test date, click on ‘change programme.

Send the Change Programme Request Form to the Registrar's Office of your programme’s Campus within the enrolment deadline

The Change Programme Request Form can be sent via chat or as an email attachment via Desks and offices for students.

(in this case, go to Apply to Politecnico > Exam Results and Enrolment in Laurea Programmes / Change Programme).

The SAT, ACT, GRE and GMAT tests can only be used by candidates who will obtain their secondary school diploma in 2024 to enrol in the Laurea programme (equivalent to Bachelor of Science) in Civil Engineering taught in English in the first enrolment stage, i.e., that of early enrolment, from the 10.30 (CEST) of 6 May to 23.59 (CEST) of 13 June 2024.

The tests must be:

  • taken between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023
  • registered by 11:59 (CEST) on 6 May 2024

To register, please download and fill in the form below:

You can submit the registration form:

  • via chat (during certain hours)
  • by email/trouble ticket 
  • in person to the Registrar's Office or by a third person with a proxyby appointment only.

For more details you can contact the International Students Office

Scores required

SAT (Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and Maths sections, with a minimum score of 520 in each of the two sections).

Please send your SAT report Score to Politecnico di Milano on the College Board website.

ACT ( English, Maths, Reading, Science sections) with a minimum score of 20 in each section.

GRE (General Test) with a minimum score of 153 in the “Verbal” section and 144 in the “Quantitative” section and with any score in the “Analytical Writing” section.

When taking the test, remember to give the test provider the Institution code “0495” for automatic transmission of the certificate to the Politecnico. 

GMAT with the minimum Total Score of 500 (Verbal and Quantitative sections), with any score in the Analytical Writing and Integrated Reasoning sections.