Incoming Students

Video Incoming students' experience at IULM

Click here to download the official Factsheet for the academic year 2026-2027.

Click here to read the Handbook for incoming students 2025-2026.

IULM University has Erasmus+ and Exchange agreements with numerous international universities worldwide. To spend one or two semesters at IULM, students from partner universities must first be nominated (Nomination process) by their home university coordinator/contact person through a Nomination Form sent to partner universities by email. After the nomination, students will receive instructions by email to complete the application (Application process).

The official teaching language in IULM is Italian, therefore most of courses and exams are given in Italian. IULM University also offers a wide interdisciplinary selection of courses in English. To be admitted and attend courses held in Italian and/or in English, an official certification attesting the actual language level possessed by the student is required:

• B2 is the minimum level required for the English language, in order to be admitted to and be able to attend courses taught in English;
  
• B2 is the minimum level required for the Italian language, in order to be admitted to and be able to attend courses taught in Italian.

The following certificates are accepted:

• International language certifications (i.e. IELTS, TOEFL, Cambridge, PLIDA, CILS, etc.)
• Official declarations signed by a home-university language teacher or academic coordinator
• Enrollment certificate for students who are attending an English-taught Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree

The following certificates are not accepted:

• OLS assessment certificates
• Duolingo tests and scoring

All certificates must be translated into English or Italian and explicitly certify the exact level possessed by the student (B2 or higher).
According to the courses they plan to attend, students may have both language certifications (English and Italian) or just one of them.

To ensure the consequent Application Process runs smoothly, Partner Universities are required to provide students’ language certifications through our online Nomination Form or by email, not later than the last day of the Nomination Period.

NOMINATIONS

Partner universities must fill out our Nomination Form in the periods indicated below:

• (Fall) First-semester/Full-year students: April 13^th, 2026 (9:00 a.m. CET) – May 8^th, 2026 (5:00 p.m. CET)
• (Spring) Second-semester students: September 14^th, 2026 (9:00 a.m. CET) – October 9^th, 2026 (5:00 p.m. CET)

APPLICATIONS

Students nominated by their home university must complete their application by following the instructions received by email after nomination, during the periods indicated below:

• (Fall) First-semester/Full-year students: May 11^th, 2026 (9:00 a.m. CET) – May 29^th, 2026 (5:00 p.m. CET)
• (Spring) Second-semester students: October 12^th, 2026 (9:00 a.m. CET) – October 30^th, 2026 (5:00 p.m. CET)

Before starting to fill in the Application form, students will have to prepare and then upload the following documents:

• Jpeg photo (ID/Passport format)
• PDF of Passport (for non-EU students) or ID card (for EU students); please document front and back in one page
• PDF of Academic records in English (Official Transcript of Records) with all the exams passed until now
• PDF of European Health Card (for EU students) or a private health insurance (for non-EU students, to stipulate before arriving in Italy)

AGREEMENT WITH AON: Students who do not have private insurance, upon arrival in Italy can contact the insurance company AON with which IULM has a special agreement.

For further information, please write to: [email protected].

EXTENSION OF MOBILITY

Should first-semester incoming students request to extend their mobility at IULM, they need to request it via email to [email protected], then ask their home university to officially confirm the request for extension sending an email to [email protected].

The request must be sent by October 30th, 2026, deadline of the 2nd-semester Application Process. We will confirm acceptance or denial of the extension by November 6th, 2026.

Second-semester students cannot extend their mobility or be nominated as full-year students.

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

1st / Fall semester — Full-year

Orientation Meetings (online)

• June 17, 2026
• September 17, 2026

2nd / Spring semester

Orientation Meetings (online)

• November 18, 2026
• February 11, 2027
  

ACADEMIC OFFER

Incoming students can select courses from different degrees and different years of study, according to the language certification they possess, their semester of mobility and restrictions listed below. Students can attend courses for up to 30 credits per semester.

Restrictions

• To attend some specific 2-year Master's degree courses, capped courses (with limited places available) or courses with special prerequisites, students need first a confirmation from the Study Abroad Office.
• Undergraduate incoming students are admitted to Master’s courses only upon acceptance by the Study Abroad Office, except for 1-year courses from English-taught Master's degrees.
• The language laboratories from the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees of the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation can be selected only by students attending a degree course in foreign languages and translation in their home university.

Language courses taught by the International Language Center (ILC) follow specific rules. For more information on these courses and corresponding requirements, please email [email protected].

COURSE CATALOGUE & PROGRAMS

The Course Catalogue 2025-26 is available at this link. Course programs may be found through the links available within the catalogue. Please filter the file by semester of mobility and teaching language, and then pay attention to the column "Restrictions".

The updated course catalogue 2026-2027 will be published once available, usually around June.

Class schedules will be available around two months before the start of each semester through the Agenda Web IULM. Students will need to check course timetables, as overlapping schedules are possible. Please participate in the online orientation meetings to know how to deal with overlaps.

COURSE REGISTRATION FORM & TOR

Students need to agree on their course selection with their home university, and then complete the official enrollment procedure at IULM within the deadlines communicated by the Study Abroad Office. After the final registration, no changes are possible.

All incoming students will need to fill out our Course Registration Form, in order to officially select and enrol to IULM courses they want to attend to during the semester. Modalities and instructions will be provided before the start of the semester, during the online webinars.

Please note that the CRF is not the Learning Agreement, but it is an additional mandatory procedure for Erasmus+ students. They will need to complete both.

1st-semester enrollment

2nd-semester enrollment

At the end of the study period all students will receive the Transcript of Records attesting the exams taken and the relative credits acquired.

Here you can download the  Statement of Italian Grading System.

Incoming handbook 2024-25