If you have completed your education outside Italy, applications for the Master's Degree Programme in Marine Sciences - Scienze Marine for the A.Y. 2025-26 will be managed through the portal apply@unimib

This platform is aimed exclusively at Italian and international students with qualifications awarded abroad.

For the 2025-26 selection process, candidates will have access to early admission calls compared to students with Italian qualifications. Starting in November 2024, applications will open for all open-admission Master’s programme. From January 2025, applications will begin for programs with limited enrollment.

To be eligible for admission to the MSc Degree Programme in Marine Sciences – Scienze Marine, applicants must fulfil some curricolar requirements and attend an interview to assess their personal educational background.

Curricular requirements:

On the basis of the documentation submitted by each candidate, the Admission Committee, appointed by the MSc Degree’s Teaching Council, will verify the possession of the following curricular requirements:

- a Bachelor's Degree (or three-year university diploma), or a foreign diploma recognised as appropriate by the University in compliance with ministerial regulations in force;

- A minimum of 18 ECTS credits from the following relevant academic disciplines:

- Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, General and Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
- General Botany, Environmental and Applied Botany, General Biology, Zoology, Ecology, Molecular Biology, General Microbiology
- Physical Geography and Geomorphology, Engineering Geology, Stratigraphy and Sedimentology, Paleontology and Paleoclimatology, Petrology and Petrography

- English proficiency qualification not lower than level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Admission interview:

Applicants, who meet the above curricular requirements, will be required to undergo an interview designed to assess their basic knowledge and skills in geology, biology, chemistry and geography. The interview is in English.

Eligible candidates will receive the details of the interview via Dream Apply notification.

Applicants who meet the above curricular requirements and hold a Bachelor's degree with a GPA of 3.7 or higher will be exempt from the interview.

Candidates living at a distance of at least 100 km away from the Milano-Bicocca University, those being off-site for proven study or work activities or unable to attend the interview for medical reasons as well as foreign candidates may ask the Admission Committee for a remote interview, by videoconference. 

Candidates should consider their education background. If necessary, they can fill their gaps in one or more of the three fields using the following recommended readings:

- Environment: Introducing Geomorphology : A Guide to Landforms and Processes, Adrian Harvey; or Introducing Geology: A Guide to the World of Rocks, G. Park
- Bioecology: Marine Ecology, Kaiser et al.
- Human Geography:  Human Geography", Bjelland, Montello, Fellman, Getis, only Cap 1 (Introduction) and Cap 13 (Human Impact on the Environment).

When you are ready, please register and apply for admission on the portal apply@unimib.