The majority of 3 year Courses at the University of Pavia leading to BA/BSc degrees also offer subsequent, 2year MSc Courses (see the relevant University web page http://www.unipv.eu/site/en/home/academics/courses-organization.html for an overall scheme).
Admissions
Admissions of MSc students to Collegio Volta are through the offices of EdISU (http://www.isu.pv.it/), the College governing body. EdISU publishes calls each year in late spring early summer inviting applications for bursaries College placements. Applicant students can, in fact, use the same application in order to request four types of benefits: a bursary, a College placement, a card enabling reduced charges at a number of University restaurants and cafeterias and a prospective reduction in University fees. All these benefits are mean-assessed and, accordingly, students need to submit evidence of their financial status as part of the application process. The Student's Guide to the EdISU application has been written at Collegio Volta in order to help freshmen in this process. The guide is specially useful to foreign students. Additional and general information about EdISU bursaries and College placements is available on the relevant web pages. The College welcomes informal enquiries about admissions from prospective undergraduate students, including students from abroad. Academic enquiries should be addressed to the office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Financial enquiries about fees, payments, etc should be addressed to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Students who apply to EdISU and indicate Collegio Volta as their first preference may be invited by College to complete a questionnaire about their general and extra-curricular interests. The questionnaire is available in English and in Italian, it can be downloaded as a Word file, completed and should be returned as to the office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Confirmations
Resident undergraduates who seek a placement for the following year will receive instructions from College on the requirement. Briefly, this will involves submission to the Office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in mid July of three files: (i) the course layout - whether standard or personalised - with details of each examination, including exam codes and credits, (ii) full exam records with dates and marks of individual exams. Both the Course study plan and the exam records can be accessed from the main Univerrsity students and exam databes (Esse3) to which all students have access and exported as pdf and, for students who need this, (iii) a dichiarazione sostitutiva di certificazione for Italian students or its English translation, a self certification form, for foreign students both of which can be downloaded from ths page, that enable students to confirm to College that they have cleared exams not yet logged in Esse3. This infornation has to be submitted to the Office of the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.by a date communicated to College students each year in June. Students who submit a dichiarazione sostitutiva di certificazione also need to send proof that the makrs of the relevant exams have been logged onto their career records.
Resident College undergraduates will be informed of their College placement for the following academic year before the College closes the last Friday in July although, for some students, confirmation may be conditional to submission of additional exam records before the 10th of August.
