As a transfer candidate, you must follow the same Online Application procedure and timeline of candidates who are applying for entry to the 1st year of a degree without credit transfer. Make sure you properly complete the following parts of the Application - section College Information:

• Do you wish to transfer credits to Università Cattolica? Select the relevant box. Should you not answer this question, a credit transfer request will NOT be processed.
• College transcript: upload an official Transcript of academic records where the Board can clearly identify:
  • The name of the university that issued it
  • The grades, credits and passing date of each exam
  • The transcript issuing date
  • Your name, last name, and student number
  • An explanation of the grading and credit systems used by the issuing University
• Certificate of Enrolment: upload a certificate issued by your previous University stating that the degree programme attended is entirely taught in English.
• Pay the 75€ application fee, which is mandatory for all transfer requests.

II. EVALUATION OF SCHOOL AND ACADEMIC BACKGROUND 

Once your application is received with all required documents, the Academic Board of Economics and Management will check if your High School background:

• complies with the overall regulations set by the Italian Ministry for Universities for enrollment into Italian Higher Education Institutions.
• satisfies the entry requirements of the programme in terms of preparation in Math, English proficiency, overall GPA. Should the assessment be negative, you may be asked to take the Cattolica admission test. 

If you are eligible, you will receive an offer for admission to the 1st year of the Bachelor in Economics and Management with indication of possible conditions for enrollment and the deadline to pay the deposit. 

Due to the high level of competition for entry, the evaluation of transferrable credits will take place after you have secured a place in the programme and provided the following additional documents: 

• Detailed syllabus of each course successfully passed, as indicated on the Transcript. Name each file according to the exact subject name/code, and then send them to international.admissions@unicatt.it.
• Official Transcript of Academic Records, which must be sent directly from the issuing University to international.admissions@unicatt.it. 

The Academic Board will check whether the transfer conditions are satisfied and then evaluate if the content, level, and workload of each course that you have successfully passed is comparable to any of those of the subjects included in the study plan of Economics and Management. When the feedback is available, you will receive an e-mail with the number of credits that can be transferred from your previous academic studies and the year of admission. 

Please note that the evaluation of transfer requests takes about 8-10 working weeks from the day all documents have been submitted.

Admission to years after the 1st of enrollment are allowed if the Academic Board recognizes a minimum number of ECTS: 

• at least 40 ECTS for admission to the 2nd year
• at least 80 ECTS for admission to the 3rd year 

If you are admitted to the 2nd or 3rd year, you will have to take all the exams listed in the study plan of the programme, including the exams related to years prior to the one of admission which have not been recognized, in compliance with the rules of exam progression (“Prerequisites”) established by the School of Economics and available on the related Guide of the Faculty. 
 

III. ENROLLMENT 

Follow the post admission procedures to finalize your enrollment.
After enrollment, Polo Studenti will officially add the transferred credits in your study plan. You will receive a notification on your ICatt page (delibera). 
In September, please contact the Tutors to ask assistance on creating your personalized schedule and Polo Studenti to ask assistance on submitting your Study Plan. 

ADMISSION PROCEDURE – applicable if places in the 1st year are available and test dates are held

If you hold an Italian High School Diploma, you must pass the Cattolica Admission Test

For  information on the Admission Test, dates, eligibility criteria and registration to Portale Iscrizioni, check the Admission Procedures.  

You can be exonerated from the Admission Test if you have successfully passed and have already been validated one of the following exams, in English, with at least 8 ECTS:

• Principles of management;  
• Microeconomics;  
• Principles of law;  
• Mathematics.  

To check the comparability and conformity of your exams, send an email to international.admissions@unicatt.it within the deadline mentioned in the Admission Procedure notice, providing the following documents:

1. Official Transcript of Records.  The certificate must display the name of the university that issued it. It also must contain the grades, credits and passing date of each exam, the transcript issuing date, your name, last name, and student number and an explanation of the grading and credit systems used by the issuing University. Finally, both the teaching and the awarding institution must be legally recognized/accredited in the referring national system.
2. Syllabus of any successfully passed exam.
3. Possible language certificate.

At the same time, you must register through Portale Iscrizioni and fill in only the profile section. The section “curriculum studiorum” related to the foreign teaching institution must not be filled in. Once the registration is complete, please refer your account to international.admissions@unicatt.it.   
   
The Academic Board will evaluate each university career based on the provided documents only.

Warning: only exams issued in English will be evaluated. Also, the evaluation will take place only once and only on successfully passed exams. 

The International Admissions Office will release the result of the evaluation via email and will indicate whether you must take the Admission Test or whether you have been exonerated. In addition to that, also validated exams, recognized credits and the academic year of admission will be communicated. 

Should you not provide the documentation on previous studies within the established deadline, it will not be possible to evaluate if you satisfy the requirements for an exemption before registration to the Test closes. Therefore, to make sure you find a place in the programme, you will have to take the Test, successfully pass it, and pay the deposit. The evaluation of credit transfer will take place after you have secured a place in the programme. 

Place reservation and credit transfer evaluation

If you are exonerated from the Admissions Test, as a next step you must forward the “Domanda di istruttoria” through Portale Iscrizioni. The place is considered reserved only after the first deposit and application fee (prima rata e diritti di segreteria) have been paid and the relevant documentation is validated by Polo Studenti. Applications of candidates eligible to the first year will be accepted in a chronological order, based on places available.  Once you have secured your place, please contact your previous University and request that a copy of your final Transcript of Records is sent to international.admissions@unicatt.it. 

If you took and successfully passed the Admission Test, you must pay the first installment of the tuition fees to reserve your place, following the instructions on the Portale Iscrizioni. Once you have secured your place, please provide the following documents by 30 June 2024, so that the Academic Board can process your request of credit transfer:

• contact your previous University and request that a copy of your final Transcript of Records is sent to international.admissions@unicatt.it
• send the syllabus of each successfully passed exam to international.admissions@unicatt.it

The International Admissions Office will release the result of the evaluation via email and will indicate validated exams, recognized credits and the academic year of admission.

Admission to years after the 1st of enrollment are allowed if the Academic Board recognizes a minimum number of ECTS: 

• at least 40 ECTS for admission to the 2nd year
• at least 80 ECTS for admission to the 3rd year 

If you are admitted to the 2nd or 3rd year, you will have to take all the exams listed in the study plan of the programme, including the exams related to years prior to the one of admission which have not been recognized, in compliance with the rules of exam progression (“Prerequisites”) established by the School of Economics and available on the related Guide of the Faculty.

ADMISSION PROCEDURE – applicable if places in the 1st year are NOT available and no further test dates are held

Provide the following documents by June 30 2024, so that the Academic Board can process your request of credit transfer and admission to the 2nd or 3rd year:

• contact your previous University and request that a copy of your final Transcript of Records is sent to international.admissions@unicatt.it
• send the syllabus of each successfully passed exam to international.admissions@unicatt.it

The International Admissions Office will release the result of the evaluation via email and will indicate validated exams, recognized credits, and the academic year of admission.

Admission to years after the 1st of enrollment are allowed if the Academic Board recognizes a minimum number of ECTS: 

• at least 40 ECTS for admission to the 2nd year
• at least 80 ECTS for admission to the 3rd year 

If you are admitted to the 2nd or 3rd year, you will have to take all the exams listed in the study plan of the programme, including the exams related to years prior to the one of admission which have not been recognized, in compliance with the rules of exam progression (“Prerequisites”) established by the School of Economics and available on the related Guide of the Faculty. 
 

Place reservation

If you accept the offer for admission, our office will provide the instructions to open a “domanda di istruttoria” on Portale Iscrizione ai corsi. The place will be considered reserved only after the first deposit and application fee (prima rata e diritti di segreteria) are paid and the relevant documentation is validated by Polo Studenti.
 

Study plan

After enrollment, Polo Studenti will officially add the transferred credits in your study plan. You will receive a notification on your ICatt page (delibera). 
In September, please contact the Tutors to ask assistance on creating your personalized schedule and Polo Studenti to ask assistance on submitting your Study Plan. 

For information on the Admission Test, on the eligibility and on the registration to Portale Iscrizioni, check the Admission Procedures.

While registering, make sure you follow these additional instructions:  

1. Profile Tab > Qualification section: enter your international High School Diploma as well as the Italian bachelor’s name, exams, grades, CFUs, SSDs and dates. If are/were a Cattolica student, you will find this section already filled in. 
2. Applications Tab: select the Degree of interest and the Type of application. 
   Warnings:
   • If you apply for a change of Bachelor at Cattolica, you cannot open an application independently. You must contact international.admissions@unicatt.it beforehand, by the deadlines indicated in the chart above, so that the International Office can open a dedicated application on your behalf on Portale Iscrizioni. 
   • You can autonomously open an application for Economics and Management only if you hold a valid English Language Certificate (check the admission procedures). Should your High School curriculum be taught in English, send a copy of your final Diploma and Transcript to international.admissions@unicatt.it before you apply to the programme, so that the International Office can evaluate your documents and eventually remove the Language Certificate request, and you will be able to proceed with your registration to the Test.
3. Applications Tab: once your application has started, insert 6 as the grade for Italian, History, Maths and first Foreign Language- both for 3rd and 4th senior year. Then, send to international.admissions@unicatt.it a scanned copy of your last two years of High School transcripts as well as a copy of your final Diploma.  The International Admissions Office will convert your grades to the Italian grading system, if possible, and they might request you further documents, if necessary. The grades of the 4th senior year will be duplicated. 

You can be exonerated from the Admission Test if you have successfully passed and have already been validated one of the following exams, in English, with at least 8 ECTS:

• Principles of management (ssd: SECS-P/07); 
• Microeconomics (ssd: SECS-P/01); 
• Principles of law (ssd: IUS/01 – IUS/04); 
• Mathematics (ssd: SECS-S/06 - MAT/05). 
   

The place is considered reserved only after the first deposit and application fee have been paid and the relevant documentation is passed over and validated by Polo Studenti.

Applications of candidates eligible to the first year will be accepted in a chronological order, based on places available.

Instructions on usage of Portale Iscrizioni can be found at this link:

• Transfer from other University
• Transfer from Cattolica University
• Double degree and career re-activation

After reserving your spot, the relevant Board will evaluate your previous academic career and check how many exams and credits can be recognized towards the new selected degree. 

Polo Student will communicate the final feedback (Lettera di delibera) on Portale Iscrizioni. The Lettera di delibera will indicate the year of admission as well as the validated exams.

Admission to years after the 1st of enrollment are allowed if the Academic Board recognizes a minimum number of ECTS: 

• at least 40 ECTS for admission to the 2nd year. 
• at least 80 ECTS for admission to the 3rd year. 

If you are admitted to the 2^nd or 3^rd year, you will have to take all the exams listed in the study plan of the programme, including the exams related to years prior to the one of admission which have not been recognized, in compliance with the rules of exam progression (“Prerequisites”) established by the School of Economics and available on the related Guide of the Faculty. 

You will be given specific deadlines for the submission of your Study Plan.