[font=Verdana]Requirements

Admission 2009/2010

Degree

Applicants must have obtained a recognized Bachelor's Degree (BS, BSc, SB, etc.) – or a degree at the level of a Bachelor's Degree, for instance its equivalent from a college, university, or technical school of high standing, or 180 ECTS credits in the European system – in one of the following (or equivalent) fields:

Mathematics
Applied Mathematics
Physics
Engineering with a large background in Mathematics.

Students in their final year of undergraduate study may be admitted on condition that their Bachelor's degrees are awarded before the enrolment. The accomplishment of the Bachelor's studies must be documented no later than 15 August 2009 (for applicants from EU countries the deadline is postponed until 30 September 2009).

Language certificate
All applicants whose native language is not English are required to prove a satisfactory level of spoken and written English, certified by:

TOEFL: 550 points. University of L'Aquila code number is 3676. Please use that code number when indicating it as a score recipient;
IELTS: 6.0 points;
or equivalent to the above.
The test must have been taken within the two years immediately preceding the requested semester of admission and be valid at the time of enrolment.

Who doesn't have to provide it?
Applicants having obtained a Bachelor's Degree in an institution in which English is the language of instruction.
Applicants who obtained their high school leaving qualifications in an English speaking country are also exempt from the English proficiency requirements provided they document it.
As an alternative to the above mentioned requirements, we will also accept a certificate by the Director/Coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree study programme – if possible, signed either by a native English speaker academic full Professor or by an academic full Professor in English language (with full contacts included) – stating that the applicant is so fluent in English that he can understand and discuss high level scientific topics.

Mandatory Documents
All applicants will have to submit online the following mandatory documents before the deadlines:

pdf copy of their passport (or ID card for European applicants);

pdf copy of their detailed curriculum vitae;

pdf copy of their full academic transcripts, with records for each single attended course and with the list of courses to be attended to get the Bachelor's Degree;

pdf or English certificate (see above);

pdf copy of two signed academic recommendation letters, including full contacts of the Professors;

for all the above documents, in case they are not written in English, an official English translation, or a translation provided and signed by the Institution awarding the Bachelor's Degree and (if possible) by a native English speaker academic full Professor or by an academic full Professor in English language (with full contacts included);

a letter of intent (no more than 1000 characters, spaces included) describing particular interests in the subjects related to the proposed fields of study.

Additional documents might be submitted only if closely related to the proposed field of study.

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