Changing to Laurea programmes in Engineering and AUIC/Engineering

If you are enrolled in a programme at the Schools of Architecture or Design of Politecnico, you may change programme:

• without taking the entrance test if the chosen programme is worth at least 35 ECTS. It is possible to request to change the degree programme until 13 September 2023, directly after the previous career assessment;
• with a compulsory entrance test, if the chosen programme is worth less than 35 ECTS. If your test result and ranking placement allows you to enrol in your chosen programme, you must follow the instructions and deadlines for enrolment, as well as the instructions below regarding the assessment of your previous academic career.

If you are unsure whether the programme is worth at least 35 ECTS, we recommend that you take the entrance test, to ensure that you are able to enrol in the programme of your choice.

If you are enrolled in a study programme in Engineering at Politecnico, you'll be allowed to change to another Engineering study programme without taking the entrance test if you have obtained, by 15 August 2023, the number of ECTS required by the study programme of interest according to the list below:

• Biomedical Engineering: 20 ECTS (but subject to evaluation. depending on available places. For more information please consult the Educational Regulations)
• Electrical Engineering: 15 ECTS
• Physics Engineering: 15 ECTS
• Management and Production Engineering (Cremona and Bovisa): requests for switching to the first degree Laurea (equivalent to Bachelor of Science) in Management and production Engineering from Politecnico di Milano students will only be allowed for those who, as of 15 August, have obtained a number of regularly registered ECTS credits equal to or greater than the following values: 40 ECTS credits for students first enrolled in the same academic year; 70 ECTS credits for students first enrolled in the previous academic year; 90 ECTS credits for students first enrolled in two or more previous academic years. Any extra examinations in the student's plan are also taken into account in the calculation of these threshold values (for more information please consult the Educational Regulations) 
• Engineering of Computing Systems (Milano and Cremona): 20 ECTS
• Engineering of Computing Systems - Online: 20 ECTS
• Mechanical Engineering (Bovisa and Piacenza): 40 ECTS
• Automation Engineering: 20 ECTS
• Energy Engineering: 30 ECTS
• Aerospace Engineering: 20 ECTS (but subject to evaluation, depending on available places. For more information please consult the Educational Regulations) 
• Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering: 20 ECTS
• Mathematical Engineering: 25 ECTS

The degree programmes not listed above allow you to change programme without taking the test, regardless of the number of ECTS obtained.
Chenges to the Chemical Engineering programme will be accepted subject to availability of places.
An exception to this is the programme in Building and Construction Engineering (AUIC/Engineering School), for which the change of programme is allowed only if the target programme is worth at least 35 ECTS (more information in the "Guide for changing BSc").

A board will assess which of the transfer requests that meet the above requirements can be accepted, taking into account the planned number of places for the 1^st year and the academic career indicators (number of ECTS obtained and average score). The board will also decide which ECTS credits shall be recognised as valid for graduation from the laurea programme.

This means that your previous academic career will be evaluated and the result may imply that certain courses can be recognised.

As a student enrolled at the Politecnico, you will see your entire previous career displayed on the screen. Please remember to state, among the exams you have yet to pass, which ones you are going to take after the submission date of the application for your career evaluation (to do this, use the '+' button next to the course). In case of non-selection, you cannot take any exam of the study programme of origin in exam dates after the submission date of application.

If you have undeclared careers at other Universities and you wish to apply for exams taken in that educational career to be validated, you can apply for this during the evaluation request procedure by clicking on "edit/add titles" and providing the University and the Laurea study programme data, by manually adding the data related to the passed exams mentioned above. Click on the "confirm" button to complete the career evaluation application and proceed with the payment.

This process must be completed for each programme for which you are requesting admission. To request evaluation for three different programmes, you must complete the procedure three times, by selecting ‘New request’ each time.  

You will be required to pay €60.00 for each programme for which you request evaluation. This fee is non-refundable. Once Politecnico di Milano has received the payment, the evaluation request will be sent to the board and can no longer be changed.

The time required to process each evaluation may vary. If you have requested multiple evaluations, the acceptance of one evaluation will automatically invalidate any others. Academic careers will be evaluated by 10 september 2024. We recommend that you wait for the results of all evaluations before accepting any of them.

You must log back into the application, view the outcome and either accept or reject it by 16 September 2024.

Once you have accepted the outcome of your academic career evaluation, the examinations from your original programme that have obtained OPTIONAL APPROVAL (see ‘YES’ beside the relevant approved examination in the ‘optional approval’ column) may be taken on the exam dates scheduled in the 2023/2024 academic calendar, even if they are after the date on which your request for an academic record evaluation was accepted: if passed, they will be approved; if not passed, they will become New Attendances on your new degree programme.

You are declaring that you do not want the recognition of exams from your previous academic career. This cannot be changed later.