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.