Minimum 3-year bachelor's degree (or higher)

A minimum three-year undergraduate degree is required.
NB: Not all international undergraduate degrees allow enrolment in a master’s degree programme in Italy.

Admission to this programme requires you to:

• satisfy the specific minimum curricular requirements (so, to be an eligible candidate, your previous university studies must be coherent with and relevant to the coursework of this master’s degree programme); and
• participate in a selection process that involves the evaluation of your CV and the submission of a brief thematic essay.

PLEASE NOTE: The minimum requirements described here below were approved for the evaluation of candidates applying for admission in 2024/2025. The requirements for admission in 2025/2026 will be updated here as soon as they are available.

MINIMUM CURRICULAR REQUIREMENTS
Generally, candidates who possess (or will possess) a university qualification in one of the following fields satisfy the academic prerequisites for admission:

• Cultural Heritage
• Philosophy
• Humanities
• Modern Languages and Civilisations
• Applied Languages
• Biology
• Environmental Sciences
• Economics
• History

If you possess (or will possess) a bachelor’s degree in a field different from those listed above, you must have obtained at least 42 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System credits) or the equivalent in one or more of the following specific fields in order to be considered for admission: Environmental and Applied Botanics, Zoology, Ecology, Anthropology, Palaeontology and Paleoecology, English Language and English/American Literature, Population Studies, Ethnography, Philosophy, Geography, Pedagogy, Psychology, Economics, Demography, Social and Political Studies.

In order to determine if you satisfy these curricular requirements, the programme’s Teaching Committee will evaluate your undergraduate transcript of records and examine your CV.

SELECTION PROCESS AND THEMATIC ESSAY
This is a limited-admission programme that requires you to participate in a selection process.

EU APPLICANTS AND THE EQUIVALENT
EU applicants must register for the selection procedure following the instructions provided in the relevant call for applications, which will be posted in the Admission section of the programme’s official web page as soon as it is available. In the meantime, it is possible to consult the guidelines used to govern admission in the 2024/2025 academic year still available on the same web page.

NON-EU APPLICANTS REQUIRING A VISA
Non-EU applicants will undergo the selection procedure directly via this application portal. Please make sure to upload the following elements to your application profile:

• a professional and academic CV in English
• a motivation letter in English (max. 500 words)
• a short academic essay in English on the theme of Environmental Humanities or on a specific topic related to this theme (max. 1,000 words). The essay must be accompanied by a short bibliography.
  N.B.: This is an academic writing exercise designed to demonstrate your engagement with this programme’s area of study, not a motivation letter or a statement of purpose.

PLEASE NOTE: your application will be automatically rejected if the short academic essay has not been uploaded before submission or does not respond to the description of the essay provided above.

READ MORE ABOUT THE PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF YOUR APPLICATION

The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian.

If your documents are not in English or Italian, please upload the original documentation or a verified copy of it AS WELL AS a professional translation in English or Italian. You can obtain professional translations either in your country or in Italy, and they can be issued by professional translators, a local court of law or court interpreters.