If you are a non-EU citizen who is resident abroad, submit your request for recognition of your qualification to the embassy representing the country under whose university system the qualification was issued. Having verified the formal correctness of the request, the embassy will forward it to the University.

If the request for recognition of the foreign qualification is for enrolment in a course of study, recognition of the qualification is not required but it is necessary to verify whether the qualification is recognised as suitable for admission to the course you are interested in.

Identify the study programme at the University of Trento that best fits your academic path: name of the study programme, type of exams, duration of the course and ECTS credits if you obtained the qualification in a European Union country.

The process of recognizing a university qualification obtained abroad is based on current legislation and on the autonomy of Italian universities, which establish the methods and conditions for the recognition of qualifications.

The request for recognition may lead to:

• partial recognition of the qualification: in this case you do not obtain the equivalence of the qualification, but partial recognition of credits from your previous career; you can choose to pursue the qualification at the University of Trento by enrolling in a course of study – after checking the admission procedures and timeframes – with partial recognition of the exams;
• full recognition of the qualification: in this case the equivalence of your foreign qualification with the qualification issued by the University of Trento is declared.

Based on your chosen course of study you must submit the following to Student Support:

• the application for credit recognition (available in the attached documents)
  a copy of the certificate of the qualification and an official translation into Italian
• the diploma supplement (if you were awarded the foreign qualification in a European Union country)
• the original or certified copy of the certificate of the exams taken and an official translation into Italian
• the syllabus of each exam taken (exam topic, bibliography, ...), on university headed paper or endorsed with a university stamp, in Italian or in English, German, Spanish or French
• a copy of any additional qualifications and official translation into Italian
• a copy of your identity card or passport.

Within 60 working days from the date of submission you will receive an email with the outcome of the request for recognition.

In the case of partial recognition of the qualification, you can decide to enroll in the study programme at the University of Trento and complete the course in order to obtain the Italian qualification.

In this case, read about:

If your qualification is fully recognisable, you will need to submit:

• an application for recognition of the foreign qualification;
• a certificate of achievement of the secondary school qualification valid for admission to the University of the country in which it was obtained, in original, or certified copy, and official translation into Italian;
• the certificate of the qualification for which you are requesting recognition and official translation into Italian, in the original, or a certified copy;
• the diploma supplement in the original (only if you obtained the qualification in a European Union country);
• a certificate of the exams taken to obtain the foreign academic qualification, in the original, or a certified copy,
• an official translation of the syllabus of each exam taken (i.e. topic and bibliography), on university headed paper or endorsed with the University stamp, in Italian or in English, German, Spanish or French;
• your curriculum vitae in Europass format;
• a bank transfer receipt of 200.00 euro (the student support office will inform you on how to proceed with the payment);
• a copy of your identity card or passport.