Graduating
The DSE Faculty made available these guidelines where students can find general information about the thesis project. All students are warmly invited to carefully read them before they start working on their thesis.
To be admitted to the final exam, students must do the following:
- upload a digital copy of the thesis in PDF/A format by accessing - from UNIMIA -> SIFA Online Services -> Administrative services -> graduation application -> Thesis upload. You cannot apply for graduation without uploading the thesis within the deadline.
- Create a PDF/A file of your thesis starting from a Word or LibreOffice document (follow instructions on the video tutorial).
- Deliver one paper copy of your thesis following the instruction of your course programme (only Master and four-year degree programmes).
There are three graduation sessions per year, for both Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes:
- Summer session
- Autumn session
- Winter session.
In the Deadlines and calendars section you will find the dates for each session and all the steps required to take the final exam.
Students who graduate by the third session of the academic year need not pay the first instalment for the next academic year.
To graduate students must:
- Be current with tuition and fees until the last year of enrolment
- Pass all the exams required by your last approved study plan, within the deadlines
- Agree on the thesis title with your supervisor before applying for graduation
- Apply for graduation and pay the graduation fee
- Fill in the upcoming graduate survey
- Comply with programme-specific formalities and deadlines for each session
The graduation application must be submitted online by the deadline set for your session. Do not hand it in to the Student Registrar.
Payment
The payment of the € 116.00 graduation fee (including the € 16.00 stamp duty) may be made through Pago PA:
- when submitting the online application, or
- after submitting the graduation application, through the payment service
Upcoming graduate survey
Upcoming graduates are required to fill in the survey within the term set for each session.
You can access the survey only after submitting the graduation application.
Failure to fill in the survey by the deadline will result in exclusion from the graduation session.
Deadlines, procedures and graduation calendars
Deadlines, calendars and procedures are different depending on the degree programme.
Each application is valid for a single exam session.
Students who forfeit an exam must promptly notify the Registrar through the Informastudenti Service. Students must submit another application through the online procedure, indicating the newly chosen exam session.
Once paid, the graduation fee is valid for the new session also. Postponements are not allowed.
- Final exams: 21 and 22 July 2025
- Online application for graduation: from 5 to 19 May 2025
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 19 May 2025
- Deadline for completing exams: within 1 July 2025
- Online thesis submission: from 16 June to 1 July 2025
- Students must deliver a paper copy of the final work to the Commitee on the day of the exam (only if in presence). The copy will be given back at the end of the exam.
- The calendar will be published indicatively on 14 July 2025
- Final exams: October 2025
- Online application for graduation: from 14 July to 1 August 2025
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 1 August 2025
- Deadline for completing exams: within 13 September 2025
- Online thesis submission: from 16 to 30 September 2025
- Students must deliver a paper copy of the final work to the Commitee on the day of the exam (only if in presence). The copy will be given back at the end of the exam.
- The calendar will be published indicatively on 13 October 2025
- Thesis presentation and announcement: 20-24 October 2025
- Final exams: December 2025
- Online application for graduation: from 6 to 20 October 2025
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 20 October 2025
- Deadline for completing exams: within 15 November 2025
- Online thesis submission: from 3 to 17 November 2025
- Students must deliver a paper copy of the final work to the Commitee on the day of the exam (only if in presence). The copy will be given back at the end of the exam.
- The calendar will be published indicatively on 9 December 2025
- Thesis presentation and announcement: 15 December 2025
- Final exams: February 2026
- Online application for graduation: to be updated
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: to be updated
- Deadline for completing exams: to be updated
- Online thesis submission: to be updated
- Students must deliver a paper copy of the final work to the Commitee on the day of the exam (only if in presence). The copy will be given back at the end of the exam.
- The calendar will be published indicatively on: to be updated
- Thesis presentation and announcement: from 23 to 27 February 2026
- Final exams: April 2026
- Online application for graduation: to be updated
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: to be updated
- Deadline for completing exams: to be updated
- Online thesis submission: to be updated
- Students must deliver a paper copy of the final work to the Commitee on the day of the exam (only if in presence). The copy will be given back at the end of the exam.
- The calendar will be published indicatively on: to be updated
- Thesis presentation and announcement: from 15 to 24 April 2026