Bocconi Graduate Merit Awards 2024-2025

Awarding

The assignment of an award will be communicated to awarded students together with admission results. Students admitted to the MSc in Cyber Risk Strategy and Governance, Joint Degree with Politecnico di Milano, may be awarded the Cyber Partnership Scholarship, which is equivalent to a Bocconi Graduate Merit Award.

Please note that the assignment of the Merit Award is tied to the program of admission with which it was communicated. For this reason, there is NO guarantee that Merit Award holders who wish to request to change their program of admission will be allowed to transfer their benefit towards the new program.

Acceptance

Awarded students will need to follow the procedure indicated in the admission results and therefore complete the online scholarship acceptance procedure within the enrollment deadline. Students will have to upload a copy of their updated CV that might be shared with the Fundraising Organizational Unit, in order to facilitate possible contacts with the donors. During the academic year, the Merit Award, indeed, might be converted (by the end of September 2024) into a named scholarship. Bocconi Merit Awardees might be contacted by donors of this project and/or staff members from the University Fundraising Organizational Unit for all the information relating to the named scholarship, its possible advantages and for the participation in academic and extra-academic activities. 

It is specified that the assigned benefit will be revoked to students enrolled to the first year who are still enrolled with reserve as of November 30, 2024. In fact, the University cannot grant a benefit to a student who does not appear to have completed enrollment by that date.

Renewal

The Merit Award will be automatically renewed for the entire legal duration of the regular course of study if the following requirements are met: 

• Enrollment requirements: completion of the enrollment in each academic year within the deadlines foreseen by Academic Services;
• Merit requirements: the second year (AY 2025-2026) provided the awardee earns at least 50 credits as of 10 August 2025.

Any changes in the number of credits, which may derive from exceptional measures, will be communicated through the publication on the website. Please note that the Merit Award can be renewed for the entire legal duration of the regular course of study. The Merit Award cannot be renewed for fuori corso year/s.

The renewal of the award is also subject to the payment of tuition and fees at Bocconi. For this reason, students enrolled in a Double/Joint Degree that, based on agreements between participating universities, offers a full tuition waiver at Bocconi and/or scholarships that cover tuition and fees to be paid to the partnered university will not be allowed to renew the award for the academic year in which they are exempted from the payment of tuition and fees at Bocconi University.

In this regard, it is specified that students enrolled in the LSE-Bocconi Double Degree program (PPA), Sciences Po-Bocconi Double Degree program (PPA) and Yale-Bocconi Double Degree program, awardees during their first year a.y. 2024-2025, will not renew the Merit Award for their second year (a.y. 2025-2026).

Please note that bonus credits ARE NOT applicable to the Merit Award.

If the merit requirements are not met, the Merit Award will be revoked. Once the Award is revoked, it cannot be restored. The provisions above constitute official publication of the regulations a.y. 2024-2025 concerning the renewal of the “Bocconi graduate Merit Award” benefit for assignees in the a.y. 2024-2025.

About Us

Università Bocconi, founded in 1902, was the first Italian university to grant a degree in economics. For a century, Bocconi has played a leading role in Italy's social and economic modernization. It has remained true to its founding values of being a major research university, with democratic values and open to the world, as well as financially and politically independent. 

Università Bocconi believes that excellence can only be based on a person's academic profile as well as on his or her values and cultural and ethical background. This is why the University offers numerous activities, special occasions for people to enrich their knowledge. For post-experience management education Bocconi started in 1971 SDA Bocconi School of Management, engaged in MBA, Specialized Master Programs and Open Enrollment/Customized Executive Education.