Graduating
To complete the ECGS course and be entitled with a master’s degree, you need to write a thesis and discuss it during a final exam. The thesis must be supervised by one or more tutors. Please see the guidelines document for more details about the thesis.
HOW TO START YOUR DEGREE THESIS
How do I find a tutor: the tutor is a professor/researcher that helps and guides you during your research project for the thesis. Tutors are chosen among the teaching staff of your course. Once you have identified a topic of interest and a potential tutor, you should contact the tutor and agree on your research topic.
Thesis request: once the topic of the thesis is agreed with the tutor, you must electronically fill the application form for the degree thesis. The thesis formally starts when the tutor approves the application and you receive the notification of approval.
HOW TO TAKE YOUR FINAL EXAM
To be admitted to the final exam, students must fulfill the general graduation requirements according to the graduation sessions below.
Summary and final paper
Summary
The final paper summary must be posted on the dissertation summary management website within the deadlines provided for each session. You can access the procedure using your University credentials.
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).
- Delivering the copy of the final work following the specific instructions specified for each session.
Internship completion form
Students must fill out the online form within the cut-off dates for graduation sessions.
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: from 16 to 18/07/2025
- Online application for graduation: from 15/05 to 25/06/2025
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 25/06/2025
- Deadline for completing exams: 25/06/2025
- Deadline for completing internship: 18/06/25
- Delivery of final paper summary: within 09/07/2025 via www.riassuntitesi.scienzemfn.unimi.it
- Online thesis submission: within 9/07/2025
- On the day of the final exam, students must deliver 1 signed copy of their final work to the Committee (only if in presence)
- Final exams: from 22/10 to 24/10/2025
- Online application for graduation: from 18/08 to 01/10/2025
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: 01/10/2025
- Deadline for completing exams: 01/10/2025
- Deadline for completing internship: 25/09/2025
- Delivery of final paper summary: within 15/10/2025 via www.riassuntitesi.scienzemfn.unimi.it
- Online thesis submission: within 15/10/2025
- Delivery of 1 hardcopy of the final paper for the co-examiner (any binding, including thermal and spiral binding) to the supervisor 7-10 days before (subject to other deadline or format requirements from the supervisor, including for electronic format)
- On the day of the final exam, students must deliver 1 signed copy of their final work to the Committee (only if in presence)
- Final exams: from 10/12 to 12/12/2025
- Online application for graduation: from 06/10 to 19/11/2025
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 19/11/2025
- Deadline for completing exams: 19/11/2025
- Deadline for completing internship: 05/11/2025
- Delivery of final paper summary: within 03/12/2025 via www.riassuntitesi.scienzemfn.unimi.it
- Online thesis submission: within 03/12/2025
- Delivery of 1 hardcopy of the final paper for the co-examiner (any binding, including thermal and spiral binding) to the supervisor 7-10 days before (subject to other deadline or format requirements from the supervisor, including for electronic format)
- On the day of the final exam, students must deliver 1 signed copy of their final work to the Committee (only if in presence)
- Final exams: from 18/02 to 20/02/2026
- Online application for graduation: from 15/12/2025 to 28/01/2026
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 28/01/2026
- Deadline for completing exams: within 28/01/2026
- Deadline for completing internship: 22/01/2026
- Delivery of final paper summary: within 11/02/2026 final paper summary must be posted on the website www.riassuntitesi.scienzemfn.unimi.it starting 7 days after the closing date for the graduation application and within the deadline indicated. The procedure is accessed using the university credentials
- Online thesis submission: within 11/02/2026
- Delivery of 1 hardcopy of the final paper for the co-examiner (any binding, including thermal and spiral binding) to the supervisor 7-10 days before (subject to other deadline or format requirements from the supervisor, including for electronic format)
- Final exams: from 15/04 to 17/04/2026
- Online application for graduation: from 10/02 to 25/03/2026
- Graduand questionnaire completion deadline: within 25/03/2026
- Deadline for completing exams: within 28/02/2026
- Deadlline for completing internship: within 19/02/2026
- Delivery of final paper summary: within 08/04/2026 final paper summary must be posted on the website www.riassuntitesi.scienzemfn.unimi.it starting 7 days after the closing date for the graduation application and within the deadline indicated. The procedure is accessed using the university credentials
- Online thesis submission: within 08/04/2026
- Delivery of 1 hardcopy of the final paper for the co-examiner (any binding, including thermal and spiral binding) to the supervisor 7-10 days before (subject to other deadline or format requirements from the supervisor, including for electronic format)