Master's Degrees

They are aimed at providing students with an advanced level of education for the exercise of a highly qualified activity in specific areas.

Access is usually by a Bachelor Degrees or comparable foreign degrees. Admission is subject to specific course requirements determined by individual universities.

Master Degree courses last 2 years, and the degree is awarded to students who have earned 120 credits. The defence of a thesis is required.

A limited number of programmes (Dentistry, Human medicine, Pharmacy, Medicine, Architecture and Law), are defined "One Cycle Degree Courses". Access is by the school leaving diploma or a comparable foreign qualification; admission is subject to selective entrance exams and each degree course is organised in just one-block of 5 or 6 years. In order to know how to enrol you should check the procedure explained in the Bachelor Degrees section.

For second-cycle (Master) degree programmes the University must also assess if the degree/diploma/certificate owned by the applicant can qualify for the application.

Check the study title requirements (by country) to access a Master Degree course.

Our Educational Offer

Students that got admission for a.y. 2024-25 should get their visa and arrive in Catania by the beginning of second semester (1st March 2025).

Degree programmes taught in English

The University of Catania offers 10 Masters' Degree courses taught in English:

LM-17 Physics
LM-22 Chemical Engineering for Industrial Sustainability
LM-25 Automation Engineering and Control of Complex Systems
LM-26 R Construction Management and Safety
LM-28 Electrical Engineering for Sustainable Green Energy Transition
LM-29 Electronic Engineering
LM-27 Communications Engineering
LM-62 Global Politics and Euromediterranean Relations
LM-69 R Agricultural Science and Technology
LM-DATA Data Science

The call for non EU students living abroad to enrol in English taught Masters' Degree courses for Academic Year 2025-26 will be published around February, 2025. You can check the last year's Call:

Call for applications Frequently Asked Questions

Step-by-step instructions:

For assistance on how to apply follow the instructions described in the Call
Check the study title requirements for students with foreign title
Please choose the programmes according to your previous studies and review the admission requirements before submitting your application.
Check the academic, curriclar and linguistic requirements for each Degree Programme in English.
Get answers to Frequently Asked Questions (download)

Tentative Timeline

By 10^thFebruary 2025	The Publication of the Call for the Admission
10^th February 2025 12.00 (GMT +1)	Opening of the online application
14^th March 2025 23.59 (GMT +1)	Closure of the online application
By the 9^th of May 2025	The publication of the suitable candidates at https://www.unict.it/content/bandi-concorsi#studentiby
By the 16^th of May 2025	Admitted candidates has to pay the enrolment confirmation fee
Starting from April 2025	Pre-enrolment and apply for a student Visa on www.universitaly.it website
May-June 2025	First and the second scrolling of the ranking
By the 31^th of July 2025	Deadline for pre enrolment on www.universitaly.it website
July - September 2025	Enrolment
October 2025	Beginning of classes

Study @ Unict webinars

Check the recording of the webinar here: Webinar- Study @ UNICT_ Key information for prospective international students-20240213_120445-Meeting Recording.mp4 to acknowledge requirements and procedures to apply for Master's Degree programmes in English. Follow this page to be updated about the upcoming webinars.

EU and equated students that wants to enrol in one of the English taught courses above should request a pre-evaluation of their previous studies before applying: The pre-evaluation f orm for EU students for English taught courses will be online from 8 April 2024 till 30 June 2024.

Degree programmes taught in Italian

If you are a non-EU student with residency abroad and you want to enrol in a degree programme taught in the Italian language, you must prove that you have an adequate level (B2) of knowledge of the Italian language for starting university studies. You meet the Italian language requirement:

By submitting a valid B2 Italian language certificate
By passing the Italian language test (CISIA L2)

To be admitted you should request a pre-evaluation of your previous studies before applying. The pre-evaluation form for Italian taught courses will be online from 8 April 2025 till 30 June 2025. For pre-evaluation and in order to obtain the eligibility letter you've to attach to the pre-evaluation request a copy of the ENIC/NARIC Statement of comparability for your Bachelor Degree and High School Diploma or the Declaration of value and an Italian Language Certificate, if you don't attach it to the request you admission will be under condition.

Pre-enrolment and visa application

The admission process for non-European applicants needing a visa to complete enrollment is governed by the guidelines issued annually by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAECI) and the Ministry of the Interior. International students residing outside the EU who intend to pre-enroll must submit an online pre-enrollment request from by 31.07.2025 by connecting to the website Universitaly Once registered, follow the procedure for international students. When you'll receive the validation of your pre enrolment request you can proceed by asking to the italian embassy in your country a Study Visa. Remind that due to high number of requests in order to secure an appintoment you should make your visa request asap.

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