Admission requirements

To be admitted to the Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Biology, it is necessary:

1. to have a first-level university degree, or another qualification obtained abroad and recognized as valid, belonging to the following classes of related disciplines and D.M. 270/04 (in brackets indicates the class corresponding to the Ministerial Decree 509/99):
   - Biotechnology  L-2 (1)
   - Information Engineering L-8 (9)
   - Life Sciences L-13 (12)
   - Science and agro-food technologies L-26 (20)
   - Sciences and chemical technologies L-27 (21)
   - Sciences and pharmaceutical technologies L-29 (24)
   - Physical Sciences and Technology L-30 (25)
   - Information Sciences and Technology - L-31 (26)
   - Mathematical Sciences L-35 (32)
    
2. Applicants who have not yet graduated within the application deadline are required to provide a certificate of enrollment. Once selected, those applicants have to graduate by  June 30 (for non-EU citizens living abroad) and October 31 (for EU and non EU citizens resident in Italy);
    
3. to have a Bachelor's degree study plan and/or a curriculum studiorum including knowledge and competences in informatics, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology ( as indicated in the Master's Degree in Quantitative and Computational Biology course regulations);
    
4. have a minimum intermediate level of English (Level B2 - reading, listening, writing and speaking), according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), proved by an the English language certifications  or registered in the study plan of the bachelor programme (level must be specified in the study plan and 4 skills must be tested) . Applicants who graduated with a Bachelor's degree awarded by any internationally recognized university whose official teaching language is English have to submit a written statement issued by their university stating that English is the official teaching language. Citizens from an English-speaking country and/or who have graduated in an English-speaking country do not have to submit any English language certificates, but only a self-declaration of their status.

   Non EU citizens resident abroad have to fulfill the language requirement by the application deadline. 
   EU citizens and non EU citizens resident in Italy, who have not yet the required level of English within the application deadline, are asked to declare in the application the expected date in which they will achieve the required level of English (B2), and to submit a copy of the corresponding English language certificate before the 31st of October in order to be admitted to the Master's degree programme.

    

English language tests organized by the University of Trento

EU citizens and non EU citizens resident in Italy, who do not fulfill the language requirement, can also sit an English language test offered by the University of Trento.
Information, dates and deadlines will be online in Spring 2024.