The candidate must be in possession of a Master’s degree, or an equivalent academic qualification obtained abroad. This diploma will be examined and verified by the examining boards or the PhD Council. The University accepts candidates who obtain their degree by October, 31.
Candidates who possess a foreign academic degree equivalent in level, nature, contents and academic rights (access to further courses) to the Italian academic qualification required for admission to a PhD program may provide the consular documents of the academic degree (translation, legalization and declaration of value) with the sole aim to facilitate the evaluation of eligibility of the academic degree for admission to the PhD program.
The application for admission is in any case subject to the evaluation, by the examining board or the PhD Council, of the eligibility of the foreign academic degree for enrolment in the PhD program. To ensure the possibility of evaluating the equivalence of the foreign academic degree, candidates are strongly recommended to attach to the application for admission, in addition to the aforementioned consular documents (translation, legalization, declaration of value), also other documents useful for the evaluation of the foreign degree (for example: diploma supplement, transcript of records, certificates of ENIC-NARIC centers, etc.). In fact, the lack of such documents may prejudice the evaluation of the foreign degree for admission to the PhD program, whenever the examining board (or the PhD Council) is not able to declare the aforementioned necessary equivalence.