Admission to Luiss University’s Master’s Degree Programmes: Test for National Students

Students can sign up for the Admission Test and indicate up to two master's degree programmes, as first and second choice, pertaining to the same Academic Area.

The choices made and the order entered are binding for the Test and the subsequent drawing up of the rankings. Only if there are still places available for certain degree programmes/majors after compiling the rankings will any second choices expressed by candidates also be taken into consideration.

Degree courses related to the Economic Area test:

Degree courses taught in italian 

• Amministrazione, finanza e controllo
• Economia e Finanza (indirizzo in italiano)
• Marketing (orientamento in italiano)
• Strategic Management (orientamento in italiano)

Degree courses taught in english 

• Economia e Finanza – major in Applied Economics; major in Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Data Science and Management
• Global Management and Politics
• ManagementMarketing (in inglese)
• Strategic Management (in inglese)
   

Degree courses related to the Politics Area test:

Degree courses taught in italian 

• Governo, Amministrazione e Politica

Degree courses taught in english 

• Global Management and Politics
• International Relations
• Policies and Governance in Europe

To register for the Admission Test, you are required to provide your personal details, a copy of an identity document, the details of your university and the degree programme you are attending, including the degree programme class.  

You will be asked to choose the language in which you wish to take the Test between Italian or English and to indicate up to two degree programmes or majors for which to take the Test, choosing one of the two proposed academic areas: Economics Area and Political Science Area. 

Candidates with disabilities, including temporary disabilities, or with specific learning disorders (SLD) must send a copy of the medical documentation issued by the local health authority (ASL) for their place of residence or by a facility accredited with the National Health Service indicating that they wish to avail themselves of compensatory measures.  

When registering to take the Admission Test, you must select the language in which you wish to take it. That indication will be binding for the purposes of choosing the degree programmes/majors to which admission is being sought: 

• if you choose to take the Admission Test in Italian, you can only select degree programmes/majors taught in Italian; 

• if you choose to take the Admission Test in English, you can select degree programmes/majors taught in Italian and/or English. 

The choice of degree programmes, first and second preferences, for which you will take the Admission Test must in any case be within the same Academic Area.

In order to take the Admission Test, you will have to check whether you meet the prescribed minimum curricular requirements, with a view to ensuring that the master’s degree programme you are seeking admission to is consistent with your previous studies. 

If you are a student or graduate 

• from another university: we invite you to independently verify whether you meet the minimum curricular requirements by clicking here. If those requirements are not met, you will have to submit – by the deadline for submission of applications for admission – documentation evidencing how you propose to make good that shortcoming (e.g. through the inclusion of extracurricular educational activities in you study plan). The deficit may be made up solely through earning ECTS credits by 13 November 2025. As specified in the Call for Applications, the Admissions Office will check fulfilment of the minimum curricular requirements when enrolment is being finalised. Therefore, any admission based on the Test and ensuing registration of the student is to be considered as conditional until fulfilment of the said minimum curricular requirements is established. For information and support: ammissione@luiss.it.

• of a Luiss bachelor's degree programme: minimum curricular requirements are always deemed to be fulfilled regardless of the Academic Area that the programme belongs to. 

Without prejudice to the above curricular requirements, it should be noted that there will be no revision of fundamental concepts in class since it is a master’s degree programme.

GMAT or GRE certificates are not compulsory. However, if you have one of the two certificates obtained no more than three years previously with the following scores, please upload it when registering for the Admission Test in order to obtain a bonus as specified below: 

• for a bonus worth 10% of the score obtained in the Test: 

• a GRE certificate with the following scores: Verbal: 135 - 139 and Quantitative: 135 - 139  or 

• a GMAT certificate: 

  GMAT “Focus” Edition (current GMAT version) with a score between 445 and 475 out of 805, or

  GMAT 10th Edition with a score between 450 and 499 out of 800;  

• for a bonus worth 15% of the score obtained in the Test: 

• a GRE certificate with the following scores: Verbal: 140 - 144 and Quantitative: 140 - 144 or 

• a GMAT certificate:  

  GMAT “Focus” Edition (current GMAT version) with a score between 485 and 505 out of 805, or

  GMAT 10th Edition with a score between 500 and 549 out of 800. 

Remember that you will have to enable Luiss to view your results on the official databases of the certification bodies. Otherwise you will not be able to obtain the bonus. In the case of GMAT candidates must authorise Luiss to access the GMAT database to check the official score report while in the case of GRE candidates must ask the certification body to send a hard copy of the certificate in hard copy, failing which it will be impossible to obtain the envisaged bonus. The cost of sending the certificate is borne by candidates. 

In order to avail yourself of the tools provided, we would ask you to upload the relevant documentation when registering for the Admission Test, so that compensatory measures can be offered to you for taking the Test after an assessment undertaken by the relevant commission. 

In the case of a specific learning disorder proved by appropriate medical documentation, the relevant commission will assess the compensatory measures to be offered for taking the Test. On the basis of what emerges from an examination of the documentation submitted, one or more of the following measures may be granted as per the appliable law and regulations: 

• 30% more time; 

• the use of a calculator, which candidates must bring themselves; 

• assistance from a tutor for the purposes of reading the questions and/or filling in the answer sheet.

In the case of disability proved by certification attesting to a degree of disability equal to or greater than 66%, the relevant commission will assess what compensatory measures are to be offered for taking the Test. On the basis of what emerges from an examination of the documentation submitted, one or more of the following measures may be granted as per the appliable law and regulations: 

• 50% more time; 

• the use of a calculator, which candidates must bring themselves; 

• assistance from a tutor for the purposes of reading the questions and/or filling in the answer sheet.

For any changes to the data entered in the application to take the Admission Test, you must send a request in that regard by e-mail to ammissione@luiss.it by 2 April 2025. The onus is on you to check that any requested change has been correctly received. If the change is not made by 2 April 2025, it will not be possible to make it at a later date.

The Admission Test, to be taken online, will consist of 50 questions to be answered in 60 minutes, divided into 35 psycho-aptitude questions and 15 questions on specific topics, differentiated according to the Academic Area for which you are taking the Test (Economics Area and Political Science Area). Before taking the Admission Test, please very carefully read the Admission Test Regulations, which will be available on this page.

Please note that separate rankings will be drawn up for Luiss students and students from other universities. In both cases, the rankings will be broken down by degree programme/major and will be based entirely on the test score expressed in hundredths including any bonuses calculated on the score obtained by candidates. 

 At its absolute discretion, taking into account also the other selection methods adopted by the University and the results obtained by candidates, the relevant commission may set a minimum score that has to be achieved in order to gain admission broken down by first choice degree programmes/majors.  

 Only after the rankings for the first choice degree programmes/majors have been compiled, if there are still places available for certain degree programmes/majors, the said commission may decide to draw on any second choices expressed until the classes are filled, in order of ranking. In any case, there will be no repechage. 

 Given the importance of the choice of degree programmes to be made when filling in the form to take the Admission Test, we would like to remind you that should you wish to change that choice you can do so by sending an e-mail to that effect to ammissione@luiss.it no later than 2 April 2025. In any case, the Orientation Office is at your disposal for an informed choice of degree programme. 

If you wish to register for the degree programme to which you have been admitted, you must complete the registration for attendance process by 12 June 2025, following the steps indicated and paying the first instalment of the annual tuition fee. 

 For the 2025/2026 academic year, the annual  tuition fee for enrolling in the first year of a master's degree programme is € 13,600 divided into three instalments (the first instalment of €4,600 is due on 12 June 2025, with the second and third instalments due in November 2025 and February 2026 respectively). For the degree programmes in Corporate Finance and Management the said fee is € 15,300 (the first instalment of € 5,100 is due on 12 June 2025, with the second and third instalments due in November 2025 and February 2026 respectively). 

Registration for attendance must be completed in all of its phases by 12 June 2025. Therefore, any late requests received after the deadlines specified in the Call for Applications will not be considered. 

For the 2025/2026 academic year, the annual tuition fee for enrolment in the first year of a master's degree programme is € 13,600 divided into three instalments (a first instalment of € 4,600, with the second and third instalments due in in November 2025 and February 2026 respectively).

For the degree programmes in Corporate Finance and Management the said fee is € 15,300 (a first instalment of € 5,100, with the second and third instalments due in November 2025 and February 2026 respectively).

Admission and registering for attendance is to be considered as conditional until receipt of the original documentation regarding the prerequisite academic qualification and the statement of validity (dichiarazione di valore), if any, to be requested from the Italian diplomatic or consular authorities for the country whose education system awarded the foreign academic qualification as well as conditional, where applicable, on earning the ECTS credits necessary to fulfil the minimum curricular requirements, which is the responsibility of students themselves to verify on the following page during the application phase. 

If you have successfully registered for attendance within the specified timeframe, you must obtain your bachelor's degree by and no later than 13 November 2025.  

If you have already graduated, from July 2025 onwards you can finalise your university enrolment as regards the master's degree programme to which you have been admitted. 

The onus is on students to check in good time that they have correctly completed the university enrolment process. Any request to finalise university enrolment received after 13 November 2025 will not be taken into account. Indeed, under no circumstances will it be possible to remedy the situation after the expiry of the deadline, not even by paying a penalty.  

Through accessing the Web Self-Service portal by 13 November 2025, you will be asked to: 

1. pay the regional student welfare tax (tasse regionale per il diritto allo studio universitario) and relevant stamp duty (bollo) through a procedure set out on the Web Self-Service portal itself; 

2. print out, sign and upload the university enrolment application form accompanied by all of the required documentation. 

Should you not finalise university enrolment by 13 November 2025, regardless of having previously registered for attendance, your application will automatically be discarded and it will not be possible to proceed with enrolment for the 2025/2026 academic year. 

Solely in the event of failure to obtain one’s bachelor's degree by 13 November 2025, will the amount of the first instalment of the annual tuition fee be reimbursable upon submission of appropriate certificates issued by the university of origin.