Admissions and enrolment
Academic year 2025/26
To enrol in the Economics and Management degree programme (late-afternoon/evening courses) you must pass an online admission test - TIEC.
The first online admission test – TIEC - dates are scheduled for the 6, 7, 8 of February 2025 (registrations are open from 20 November 2024 to 29 January 2025). For additional dates, please refer to the procedures.
REGISTRATION FOR THE ADMISSION TEST - TIEC | GUIDE TO THE ENROLMENT PORTAL
To register for the admission test, you must enter the "Enrolment Portal". Before proceeding, it is advisable to consult the Guide.
REGISTRATION FOR THE ADMISSION TEST - TIEC | ENTER THE PORTAL
If you have not yet registered on the portal, register or, if you already have your credentials, log in to the portal.
The admission test for Economics at Università Cattolica- TIEC
LA PROVA DI AMMISSIONE - TIEC
The test takes place online, lasts 60 minutes, it is in Italian and consists of 48 questions, divided into 4 areas: mathematics, logic, English and reading comprehension and general culture.
The test with a negative result can be repeated, if places are still available.
To be eligible for enrolment, you must obtain a minimum score of 60, which is calculated also taking into account your school curriculum and extracurricular certifications (language, computer science and work) and correctly answer at least 6 questions in the area of logic, English and reading comprehension and 4 questions in the area of mathematics
The topics required in the admission test-TIEC of the mathematics area are:
- Basic notions of set theory.
- Number sets and their representation: natural, rational and real numbers. Inequalities. Percentages.
- Exponentiation and its properties. Exponentials and logarithms and their properties. Sorting of real numbers.
- Literal calculus: monomials, polynomials. Operations between monomials and polynomials: algebraic sum, product. Notable products. Prime factorizations. GCD and lcd of monomials and polynomials.
- Algebraic fractions. Whole and fractional first/second degree equations. Whole and fractional first/second degree inequations. Systems of first/second degree equations and inequations.
- Basic exponential and logarithmic equations and inequations.
- Analytical geometry: Cartesian coordinates, distance between two points, midpoint of a segment, equations of line, circumference and parabola, parallel and perpendicular lines, belonging of a point to a curve. Fundamentals of trigonometry.
A preparation book is available to practice for the Mathematics area:
- "Note di matematica. Nozioni preliminari" - Educatt (2023)
by Ballerio Augusto Carlo, Braggion Francesca, Dettoni Maurizio, Gazzaniga Agradi Piercarla, Mainini Alessandra, Messineo Grazia Caterina, Ubiali Gianandrea, Vassallo Salvatore Flavio
(the book is also available in digital format, and can be purchased here)
In addition, the following is also available for practice:
- Il precorso online di matematica Teorema (Teorema online pre-course): At the first access, explicit consent to the processing of personal data will be requested from all students, including those already registered. Consent, which is required only once, is mandatory to continue using the platform. To use Teorema, all you need is a valid e-mail address and registration at the https://elearning.teorema.cineca.it/login/index.php address: press Create an account, and enter the following code: 123Teorema. At the end of the registration procedure, a registration message will be sent containing instructions on how to access the Teorema pre-course.
FOR ALL STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE 1ST YEAR OF THE PROGRAMME
Read the instructions for the Verification of Initial Preparation Test (VPI) and Additional Educational Obligations (OFA)
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES IN THEIR PENULTIMATE YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL ABROAD
To register for the admission test to one of the undergraduate degree programmes of the Faculty of Economics, you must declare in the Enrolment Portal the marks obtained in the third-to-last and penultimate years of high school in the following subjects: Italian, History, Mathematics and First Foreign Language.
If you are about to obtain or have obtained an Italian high school diploma and you attended the penultimate year of high school abroad, in order to register for the admission test you must declare in the Enrolment Portal the marks converted according to the Italian grading system and upload the report card issued to you by the Italian educational institution.
If you cannot provide the converted report card of the penultimate year, you must repeat the grades obtained in the third-to-last year and upload the transcript of the penultimate year spent abroad along with the report card of the third-to-last year in a single file.
PLEASE NOTE:
If you have spent the 1st term abroad, declare the grades of the final exam expressed out of 10 and upload the report card of the penultimate year issued by the Italian school.
If you have spent the 2nd term abroad, declare the grades of the final exam converted in marks out of 10 by the Italian school.
If you cannot provide the report card with the converted final exam grades, declare and upload the grades obtained in the first term spent in Italy and the transcript of the term spent abroad along with the report card of the 1st term attended in Italy in a single file.
PLEASE NOTE: under no circumstances will translations of foreign transcripts or self-certifications of mark conversion be accepted.
TRANSFERS, CAREER RESUMPTION, SUSPENSION OF STUDIES
Part-time student enrolment | Attendance at single courses | Transfer to another degree programme within the University | Transfers | Second degrees, career resumption | Withdrawal from studies | Suspension and interruption of studies
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CANDIDATES WITH A FOREIGN QUALIFICATION
If you are a candidate with a foreign diploma or enrolled in a school providing a foreign qualification, please follow the procedures provided by the International Admissions Office.
PLEASE NOTE
The information for admission to the academic year 2025-26 is provided unofficially pending the finalization of the approval by the competent bodies