Applications are invited for the Bocconi Graduate Merit Awards. Apply at the earliest.

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Bocconi Graduate Merit Awards 2025, Italy
Bocconi Graduate Merit Awards 2025, Italy

Award value

The Merit Award includes a full tuition and fees waiver. 

  • 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.

Eligibility

  • Academic profiles considered to be amongst the top applicants (International, Italian and Bocconi) will be considered for a Merit Award based on the admission’s application submitted to Bocconi University. A separate application will not be required. 
  • The Bocconi Merit Award evaluation will primarily be based on the candidate’s academic achievement. In addition to academic achievement, the complete dossier provided to the Admissions office will be evaluated.
  • The Selection of awardees will be carried out by a Committee, nominated by the Rector, including the Dean of the Graduate School and the Dean for International Affairs, whose decisions about numbers, amounts and recipients is final and unquestionable.
  • The number of awards to applicants will not be equally divided amongst the different rounds. The majority of awards will be allocated – for each category of students (International, Italian, and Bocconi candidates) – in the first relevant rounds: the final percentage of awarding for each round is at the discretion of the Committee.

Deadline

Deadline to apply for these scholarships is 23 April and also 27 May 2025.

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.

How to apply?

The full list of Master’s degrees is available on our course website. Once you have found a suitable programme, click on the Apply for this course button on the programme page to make your application.

Click here to view the official notification of Bocconi Graduate Merit Awards 2025, Italy