The entry requirements are based on the latest guidelines for admission published by the Italian Ministry for Education and apply to all students with foreign qualifications, independently of their nationality, both for qualifications awarded in European Union (EU) and non-EU countries.  
  

1. Eligible candidates need to hold a high school diploma and an undergraduate degree.
    
2. Eligible candidates need to hold a graduate degree or be enrolled in the final year of their graduate degree.
    
3. Entry to third-cycle programmes is possible if the graduate degree manifests all of the following characteristics:
   1. It is an official second-cycle qualification of the relevant foreign higher education system, 
   2. It is a qualification issued by a higher education institution regularly accredited or recognized in the awarding country. If you studied in a third country, the institution where studies were located has to be accredited or recognized in the country where it operates,
   3. It is a qualification that allows entry to comparable third-cycle programme in the relevant foreign higher education system.
       
4. It is a qualification showing corresponding elements to the Italian qualification required for entry to a Master universitario di II livello, such as the academic nature, research elements, duration of the programme and total ECTS (min. 2 years and 120 ECTS), total years of schooling (18 years are usually required).
    
5. The graduate degree must be obtained by 15 July 2024.

Suitability of the academic degree for admission to Master Universitari di II livello is established by the university receiving the application: each university sets its own criteria and regulations (including required documentation) for admission and enrolment in a study programme.

Admission is based on the evaluation of the academic documents submitted with the application, while enrolment is subject to the verification of the validity of the qualification obtained
 

Read our recognized language certificates and exemption policy. 

Applicants must have a background in one of the following degrees: Medicine and surgery, Veterinarian medicine, Pharmacy, Agrarian sciences and technologies, Food sciences and technologies, Chemistry, Biological sciences.

Candidates must also possess specific knowledge in the topics listed below, which will be assessed during the admission interview:

• Human nutrition: basics of food composition, nutrients and related needs. General knowledge of metabolism, dysmetabolism and energy balance. Physiopathological and basic clinical aspects of obesity and dysmetabolic diseases.
• General and food microbiology: basic knowledge on the role of the microorganisms in the food transformation and preservation.
• Food technology: basic knowledge on the unit operations in food processing and transformation of raw materials from plant and animal origin.
• Food chemistry: basic knowledge on the food chemistry and analytical techniques, considering also consumer protection.

The graduate degree must be obtained by 15 July 2024.