Standard procedures for your UNIBG life:
EXAMINATION
Exams will be on site.
Students are not authomatically registered for the exams. At the University of Bergamo you have to register for each exam login with id and pw on your MyUnibg, in order to sit them. You can register for the exams until 5 days before the exam date.
Students have to pass written and/or oral examination at the end of the course. According to Italian law, exams may be oral/written, may be practical tests, graphic tests, mini-thesis, interviews, etc.
The exam calendars are available on WEBAGENDA > exam calendar > by course. In Italy, the exam dates are called “appelli d’esame”. They refer to the dates set by your Department in which you can take the final exams. Usually (except for written languages exams - only one appello), there are at least two “appelli d’esame” and therefore, you can choose, among the available dates, when to take your exams.
Some Departments have mid-term/partial exams (“prove intermedie or prova in itinere”). The teacher will point it out at the beginning of the course.
Assessments
The minimum grade to pass the exam is 18/30. The highest mark is (30/30 cum laude). Students may refuse to accept a mark awarded if they are not satisfied with the result and may re-sit the exam. If a student fails an exam by a very small margin, they are not given 17/30 – they must re-sit the exam in any case.
Please note that certain courses may be taken under the pass/fail option. Under such registration, the only final grades available to the student are Pass (Idoneo) or Fail. That means that the exam is passed, the credits are assigned but no grade appears on the transcript.
Resits
If a student fails an exam, they may sit it again by choosing the next available date in the exam session. Please be aware that if you want to re-sit an exam you shall be physically present in Bergamo.
The re-examinations will NOT be faxed, sent or e-mailed to the Home Institution in case the student has already returned to his/her Home country. For this reason, students are required to stay in Bergamo until the end the exam session or - at least - until all exams have been registered.
The lectures and exams of the bachelor’s, master’s and single-cycle master’s degree courses in the a.y. 2023-2024 will take place exclusively in person in Bergamo.
HOW TO BOOK EXAM AND CHECK-OUT PROCEDURE - ONLINE MEETINGS
In May, Staff and Tutors will support students in the exam booking procedure and check out steps through some dedicated virtual meetings:
The meetings will be available on Microsoft Teams, click here to access the virtual room.
SUMMER BUSINESS PROGRAM
The Department of Economics together with the University of Missouri – Columbia (CO) USA organizes English courses within the Summer Business Program; each university organizes 3 courses given by lecturers of their respective departments. 60/80 students coming from the University of Missouri – Columbia spend four weeks at the University of Bergamo which, in turns, selects 60/80 participants among its students; this enables to form 6/8 classes of 40 students each (20 American students and 20 students from the University of Bergamo and the Erasmus program).
All courses take place between mid May and mid June (four weeks) at the Department of Economics ,Caniana campus.
The courses are structured by individual teachers with different teaching methods that include classroom lectures, working groups, field research, interviews.
Participation is limited, on equal terms, to 2nd and 3rd year students enrolled in first level degree courses and to Erasmus students at the Department of Management, Economics and Quantitative Methods at the
University of Bergamo.
The Summer Business Program is revised every year. As a consequence, the training program may change during the academic year.
Students have to partecipate to a call in order to be admitted at the Programme ( (to be published)
Please check the following Italian webpage: Summer Business Course