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Admission criteria and procedure

1. Read the admission requirements

You can only enter this course if you have earned a bachelor's degree or equivalent (pre-doctoral degree, university diploma - 3 years, direct school for special purposes - 3 years) and if you meet the curricular requirements, specified below.

Did you graduate abroad?

If you graduated abroad, your application for this Master's degree course must be pre-screened via UniGeApply, which has two different deadlines:

  • fall session from 26/11/2025 to 20/03/2026, for visa applicants
  • spring session for applicants already resident in Italy.

Applicants for visas must also apply for a study visa through the Universitaly.

Carefully consult the deadlines and the international registrations page of the Welcome Office.

In order to be able to enrol in a UniGe study course in Italian, you need to prove that you have at least B2 level knowledge of Italian. To do so, you can submit a certification or take a test.

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If you graduated abroad, your application for this Master's degree course must be pre-screened via UniGeApply, which has two different deadlines:

  • fall session from 26/11/2025 to 20/03/2026, for visa applicants
  • spring session for applicants already resident in Italy.

Applicants for visas must also apply for a study visa through the Universitaly.

Carefully consult the deadlines and the international registrations page of the Welcome Office.

In order to be able to enrol in a UniGe study course in Italian, you need to prove that you have at least B2 level knowledge of Italian. To do so, you can submit a certification or take a test.

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If you graduated in Italy, continue reading.

If you graduated in Italy, continue reading.

Curricular requirements

To enrol on the course, you must have obtained a degree from class L-17 (Architectural Sciences) or L-21 (Territorial, Urban and Environmental Planning) or L-25 (Agricultural and Forestry Sciences and Technologies) or the corresponding classes under Ministerial Decree 509/99, or have an Italian or foreign degree recognised as equivalent.

You may also be admitted to the course with a degree in other classes, provided that you have acquired at least 45 University Educational Credits (CFU) in the Scientific Disciplinary Sectors (SSD) indicated:

  • AGR/02 - Agronomy and Herbaceous Crops
  • AGR/03 - General Arboriculture and Tree Crops
  • AGR/04 - Horticulture and floriculture
  • AGR/05 - Forest management and silviculture
  • AGR/08 - Agricultural hydraulics and hydraulic-forestry systems
  • AGR/09 - Agricultural mechanics
  • AGR/10 - Rural construction and agroforestry
  • AGR/11 - General and Applied Entomology
  • AGR/12 - Plant Pathology
  • AGR/14 - Pedology
  • BIO/02 - Systematic Botany
  • BIO/03 - Environmental and Applied Botany
  • BIO/07 - Ecology
  • GEO/04 - Physical Geography and Geomorphology
  • GEO/05 - Applied Geology
  • ICAR/06 - Topography and Cartography
  • ICAR/07 - Geotecnica
  • ICAR/12 - Tecnologia dell'architettura
  • ICAR/14 - Architectural and Urban Composition
  • ICAR/15 - Landscape Architecture
  • ICAR/17 - Drawing and representation
  • ICAR/18 - History of architecture
  • ICAR/20 - Tecnica urbanistica
  • ICAR/21- Urban planning
  • INF/01 - Informatics
  • ING-INF/05 - Information processing systems

Admission to the course is also subject to knowledge of a language of the European Community other than Italian, attested by the university course or by a language certification body.

2. Register and pre-register

To register, you need to go through the online procedure, which includes registration and pre-registration (see the TUTORIAL).

UniGe Portal Registration

If you have never been enrolled at the University of Genoa, access the UniGe Portal and obtain your UniGePASS credentials.

Pre-registration

Make apply for pre-registration using the UniGePASS credentials received with your registration.

You can apply for pre-enrolment even if you have yet to graduate or, if you are a graduate, even before applying for verification of curricular requirements or before receiving the result of the same.

3. View the outcomes of the requirements assessment

If:

You must take the personal readiness check. When the Commission has unlocked the online service "Enrollment" (within ten working days at most) you can complete your enrollment in this Course by proceeding with the confirmation.

You must take the personal readiness check. When the Commission has unlocked the online service "Enrollment" (within ten working days at most) you can complete your enrollment in this Course by proceeding with the confirmation.

It means that you do not meet the curricular requirements and you cannot enroll in this course of study.

It means that you do not meet the curricular requirements and you cannot enroll in this course of study.

You will need to supplement your curriculum by enrolling in individual educational activities as you partially meet the curricular requirements.

If you pass the individual educational activities by the start of classes in the second semester, you may enroll in the first year of your course in the current a.y..
. Otherwise, you will have to register for the first year of the course in the following a.y..

You will need to supplement your curriculum by enrolling in individual educational activities as you partially meet the curricular requirements.

If you pass the individual educational activities by the start of classes in the second semester, you may enroll in the first year of your course in the current a.y..
. Otherwise, you will have to register for the first year of the course in the following a.y..

4. Complete your registration

To complete registration for this course of study (see the TUTORIAL):

  • confirm that you want to enrol in the course of your choice from the pre-enrolment already entered,
  • pay the first instalment of fees according to the manner and the deadlines indicated.