Polito for international applicants: tests, SAT, fees and visa

For entry in autumn 2027, Politecnico di Torino has published one rule for the 2027/2028 academic year: it moves to in-person CISIA tests, TOLC@UNI and CEnT@UNI, and the call for applications is still to come. Every date, threshold and fee on this page comes from the 2026/2027 call, the latest published, and is not a 2027/2028 rule.

Polito tells Bachelor's applicants that to be admitted you pass an admission test or have an international certificate, and that you register on the Apply@polito platform. Statements marked as coming from the page follow the Polito page according to the page as of October 2026.

How a school-leaver from abroad applies

Polito treats non-EU applicants residing abroad and requiring a visa as a separate category. Your category decides your deadlines and fees, so read the rules for your category in the chapter on applicant categories before anything else.

Engineering applicants (2026/2027, the latest published) can reach the ranking lists with the TIL-I or with the SAT. The TIL-I is taken in person, and the SAT has no guaranteed admission threshold: 650 in each of the two test sections only gives a place in the ranking. Design and Planning have their own TIL tests; Architecture admits only through the TIL-A.

Valentino Castle in Turin, used by the Politecnico

What changes for 2027/2028

From the 2027/2028 academic year Polito adopts the tests of the CISIA consortium and accepts only tests taken in person, either at the Politecnico or at other universities: TOLC@UNI and CEnT@UNI. Applicants are told to consult the CISIA website and wait for the publication of the official Call for Applications. Polito has not published which CISIA test applies to which programme, the minimum scores, the dates or the number of places for 2027/2028, and it has not said whether the SAT stays accepted.

English and cost

English-taught programmes need English Level B2 or above. On cost, the 2026/2027 regulations set the yearly all-inclusive contribution at no less than €600.00 (Tmin) and no more than €3.600.00 (Tmax), which is three thousand six hundred euros in the Italian number format. Non-EU students whose family income and assets are abroad and whose country is not on the Annex 2 list pay a fixed fee of €761. The tuition chapter explains who pays what.

This report does not list Politecnico di Torino's overall position in any world ranking, because the ranking tables belong to their publishers and this report does not reproduce them. What it gives is what Polito says about itself: its page on the QS World University Rankings 2027 states that it has climbed 120 places in the ranking over the last four years, and its home page claims a 16th place in the world in the THE Interdisciplinary Science Rankings.

Both statements are Polito's own claims, not a table taken from QS or Times Higher Education. Read them as the university's positioning. The climb figure has no starting or ending position attached on the page, so it tells you the direction, not where Polito stands today.

QS subject positions Polito reports

Polito's rankings page lists positions from the QS rankings by subject for 2026 and by broad subject. These are again the university's reporting. The page prints each number before its subject name.

Treat subject positions as a guide to where Polito is strong, which is engineering and architecture, and not as a promise about the programme you pick.

Polito's own figures on size

The Course Catalogue for academic year 2026/2027 lists 26 Bachelor's degree programmes (the catalogue splits them between Engineering and Architecture, Design and Spatial Planning), and 35 educational paths taught completely in English.

For enrolment, the university reports 21,905 enrolled in Bachelor's degree programmes in academic year 2025/2026. That is a measured past figure, not a place count for you.

Polito's pages give two figures for the international share. The numbers page states 22,4% international students for 2025/2026, and the international page states international enrolled students 21% of the whole PoliTO students, according to the page as of October 2026. Both are shown because they differ and neither page explains the gap.

The latest published Engineering call (2026/2027) offers 5177 first-year places in total, of which 4730 go to EU and equivalent applicants and 447 to non-EU applicants residing abroad and requiring a visa. Polito has not published places for 2027/2028, and the pages state no applications, admits or admission rate.

Places are set per programme and split between the two applicant groups, so the number that matters to you is the one in your group's column, not the programme total. The table shows four Engineering and Design programmes from the 2026/2027 call, the latest published.

The split is the point. English-taught Civil and environmental engineering and Electronic and communications engineering reserve most places for non-EU applicants residing abroad, while the Italian-taught programmes in the table reserve far fewer. Places are scoped by programme, not by nationality: the group is EU or equivalent against non-EU residing abroad and requiring a visa.

The programme list

Polito's programme list shows available places next to each programme, according to the page as of October 2026, without naming an academic year on the page. It shows Computer Engineering with 659 available places and Automotive Engineering with 214 available places. Check the annex of the call for the split between applicant groups before relying on a list figure.

Thresholds that decide competition

In the Engineering area (2026/2027, the latest published) a TIL-I score of 30/100 is the minimum to enter the ranking lists, and 60/100 guarantees admission to the first-preference programme. Applicants between the two compete in a merit-based ranking list for each Bachelor's degree programme for the allocation of residual student places. The thresholds are gates, not the level of admitted students: Polito does not publish the score at which each programme closes.

Places can also move. The call says the number of student places that can be assigned for each programme could be higher than the number of places illustrated in Annex A, and the call links this to withdrawals.

Polito sorts Bachelor's applicants into three groups, and the 2026/2027 call, the latest published, defines them: European Union applicants are Italian citizens or other EU nationals, equivalent applicants are a listed set of countries and residents, and the third group is non-EU applicants residing abroad and requiring a visa. You apply to all of them on Apply@polito, and the group decides which programmes, places and deadlines you get.

The rules in this chapter come from the Engineering call and its annexes for 2026/2027. Polito has not published the 2027/2028 call, so check each rule again when it appears.

Programmes closed to non-EU applicants abroad

In the Engineering call, enrolment in the Professional Bachelor's degree programme in Industrial Manufacturing Technologies, and in the Bachelor's degree programme in Chemical and Food Engineering, is open exclusively to EU and equivalent applicants. The Planning call for 2026/2027 carries a title block that names only EU/equivalent applicants, so non-EU applicants abroad should confirm the Planning rules before relying on that route.

Two rules that catch non-EU applicants

• Non-EU applicants residing abroad and requiring a visa who come from school systems that award the diploma before the age of 18 must be 17 years old when they obtain their entry visa.
• A residence permit for study issued after a visa for an exchange or language course does not allow enrolment in a Bachelor's degree programme.

How Apply@polito works

You register on Apply@polito, fill in your personal data and choose programmes. Polito asks you to enter your details exactly as they appear in your passport and to get citizenship and permanent address right, because the category and the fees follow from them.

In the Engineering area you can choose a maximum of 5 Bachelor's degree programmes of the Engineering area, in order of preference, and you will appear exclusively in the ranking lists of the Bachelor's degree programmes that you had chosen. Non-EU applicants residing abroad and requiring a visa can change their programme choices until Friday 22nd May 2026 in the 2026/2027 call, a date that has passed.

For the latest published admission (2026/2027), Politecnico di Torino admits Engineering applicants through the in-person TIL-I, which needs 30/100 to enter the ranking lists and 60/100 for guaranteed admission, or through a SAT with a minimum score of 650 points in each section. Architecture does not take the SAT. These are 2026/2027 rules; Polito has said that from 2027/2028 it moves to CISIA tests, and the next chapter covers that.

TIL-I for Engineering

The TIL-I is taken in person at Politecnico, in the computer labs of the Torino main campus and the Mondovì campus, and other TIL-I tests were delivered at the Politecnico HUB in Uzbekistan. It is available in English and Italian. Its sections are 16 Math questions in 36 minutes, 10 Reading Comprehension and Logical Reasoning questions in 20 minutes and 10 Physics questions in 22 minutes, plus 6 Basic Technical Knowledge questions, and the total time is one hour and thirty minutes.

Scoring gives 1 point for each correct answer, 0 points for each unanswered question and a penalty of 0.25 points (-0.25) for each incorrect question. You may take it a maximum of 3 times totally, but only one time per session, and the highest score counts. A Mathematics section score under 4,8/16 does not stop admission but brings additional learning obligations (OFA). In the Engineering area you rank up to a maximum of 5 Bachelor's degree programmes.

The SAT route

The Engineering call accepts a valid SAT score as the second route. You need a minimum score of 650 points in each section, and you must ask the College Board to send the score to Politecnico di Torino, institution code 7679. The SAT section of Apply@polito had to be completed no later than Thursday 30th April 2026 in that call, a deadline that has passed.

Read the SAT limit carefully: Polito states that there is not a guaranteed admission threshold for applicants who present a SAT score, so 650 points in each of the two test sections only gives you a place in the ranking. The Design and Communication page sets a minimum of 650 in each section and the Planning page sets a minimum of 650 in each section in 2026/2027, and for Architecture SAT is NOT VALID for Architecture.

TIL-D, TIL-P and TIL-A

The TIL-D has 12 Design Knowledge questions in 24 minutes and a guaranteed threshold of 70/100. The TIL-P has 12 Territory and Society questions in 24 minutes. Planning admits through the TIL-P (Test in Laib - Planning) or else a SAT score.

The TIL-A is for Architecture. Candidates may take it in English or in Italian, chosen at registration, and it was held in person in the Politecnico laboratories on Tuesday 21 July 2026 and Wednesday 22 July 2026, and candidates could choose only one of the two dates. The registration fee is € 50.00 as the 2026/2027 call, the latest published, states it. The TIL-A score is only valid for enrolment in academic year 2026/2027.

Other selection steps

Admission rests on the test or SAT routes set out above and, for foreign diplomas, on the recognition rules in the diploma chapter.

From the 2027/2028 academic year Politecnico di Torino joins the CISIA consortium, and it will accept only tests taken in person, either at the Politecnico or at other universities: TOLC@UNI and CEnT@UNI. The call for applications for 2027/2028 is in preparation and had not been published when this page was written, so no minimum score, date or place count exists yet.

This is the only 2027/2028 statement Polito has published on admission. It comes from the admission-test page, under the heading for the 2027/2028 academic year, according to the page as of October 2026. The Italian version of the page says the same: saranno accettati esclusivamente test svolti in presenza, presso il Politecnico o presso altri atenei - TOLC@UNI e CEnT@UNI.

Which tests count

Only the in-person versions count. The page names TOLC@UNI and CEnT@UNI and states that the remote versions, TOLC@CASA and CEnT@CASA, will not be accepted. If you plan to apply for autumn 2027, that rules out sitting a test from home and leaves you to book a seat at a test centre.

What this report cannot tell you yet

The TIL tests, the thresholds and the SAT minimum in the previous chapter all belong to the 2026/2027 call. They are the latest published, not the 2027/2028 rules. The CISIA consortium describes its own tests on its own site, and those descriptions are not Polito's minimums: Polito has not said which of its programmes will use the TOLC and which the CEnT, or what score it will ask for. Treat any figure you see for a TOLC or CEnT threshold at Polito as unconfirmed until the call is out.

When the 2027/2028 call will appear

Polito's calls page states that the calls for admission to Bachelor's degree programmes for the 2027/2028 academic year are being finalised and will be published soon, according to the page as of October 2026. No publication date is given. Until then, the page tells applicants to consult the CISIA website and wait for the official Call for Applications.

Polito's admission path has four moves: pass an admission test or have an international certificate, register on the Apply@polito platform, wait for the ranking, then reserve your place and enrol. The dates below are the 2026/2027 Engineering dates, the latest published; they have all passed, and Polito has not published 2027/2028 dates.

Polito's page lays these out as steps on its Bachelor's page, according to the page as of October 2026. The Engineering call then gives separate calendars for non-EU applicants residing abroad and requiring a visa, and for EU and equivalent applicants. Pick your own column.

The call contains one internal conflict you should know about. The first article of the Engineering call (paragraph four) prints that registration for the test opens starting from Thursday 22nd January 2025, a date in the wrong year, while the session table of the same call gives a date in January 2026. Treat the session table as the working calendar and the 2025 date as an inconsistency in Polito's own text.

Submitting the application

The Apply@polito form takes approximately 20 minutes to complete and can be filled in over several sessions. You must submit before the deadlines (admission test calendar or SAT deadline), because only submitted applications are processed in the 2026/2027 call.

Documents

The required documents start with the passport (other IDs are accepted only for EU nationals). At the application stage Polito does not require hard copies, so you upload files and do not post paper. The language certificate deadlines are in the English and Italian chapter.

After admission: enrolment with condition

Applicants with a non-Italian qualification in 2026/2027 enrol online and then have their documents checked, and until the check is done they are enrolled with condition. The dates in the 2026/2027 sequence were as follows.

Enrolled with condition has a practical cost: the page says students have limited access to the services available on their personal page of the Teaching Portal, so certificates and exam registration wait until the documents are cleared. The standard first instalment at place reservation or enrolment is 161€.

English-taught Bachelor's programmes at Politecnico di Torino ask for English Level B2 or above, and Italian-taught programmes ask for Italian Level B2 or above, in the 2026/2027 call, the latest published. The IELTS minimum Polito lists is 5.5 and the language deadline for non-EU applicants abroad was Friday 22nd May 2026.

The certificate table below sits on Polito's English-language page, and the statements follow the page as of October 2026. The level rules and the deadlines come from the 2026/2027 call, so they are the latest published and not a 2027/2028 rule.

The TOEFL row is split by date. The page also states that retakes of one or more parts of any of the certificates in the table are accepted. Check the table again when the 2027/2028 call is out.

When you send TOEFL or TOEIC results, indicate the code C285 to share the results with the Politecnico di Torino. For older Cambridge results, PET needs Pass with Distinction (≥90) if obtained before 2016.

Who does not need an English certificate

• IB Diploma holders: only if the entire path is taught in English, except foreign languages.
• Qualifications from an English-medium school or university issued by USA, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, wherever the school or university is located.
• English-medium qualifications from schools based in one of the countries listed in the call annexes, for example Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka in Asia and Cyprus, Malta, United Kingdom, Ireland in Europe.
• Students with refugee status in Italy: they do not need an English and/or Italian language certificate for admission.

Italian for Italian-taught programmes

An Italian certificate at B2 level is accepted from bodies such as CELI 3, CILS Due, B2 cert.it and PLIDA B2. US, British and Scottish applicants can use AP, A-level or Advanced Higher Italian, because these are accepted in substitution for the Italian Language certificate of CEFR level B1. Exemptions from the Italian certificate cover Italian citizens residing in Italy and applicants who attended at least one school year at a high school in which the medium of instruction is Italian.

When the language requirement had to be met

For 2026/2027 the language requirement deadlines, all of which have passed, were Friday 22nd May 2026 for non-EU applicants residing abroad and requiring a visa, Wednesday 15th July 2026 for Architecture applicants and Monday 20th July 2026 for EU and equivalent applicants. Polito has not published the 2027/2028 deadlines.

Politecnico di Torino admits applicants with a secondary high school diploma (level 4 EQF) earned after at least 12 years of school attendance, in the 2026/2027 call, the latest published. The IB Diploma, UK A-levels, Scottish Highers and the US diploma with AP courses each have their own extra conditions, set out below.

Polito has not published 2027/2028 diploma rules, so everything here is the 2026/2027 position. The rules are written by programme area; the lines below are those of the Engineering, Design and Communication and Planning calls, and the Architecture call repeats the Scottish and AP-Italian rules.

IB Diploma

Polito accepts an International Baccalaureate Diploma released by a school institution recognized by the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO), awarded after a period of 12 or 13 years of school attendance. The Engineering page lists the points rule above, and the same wording sits in the Design and Planning calls, together with TOK, CAS and the Extended Essay being passed. The IB English exemption is a separate rule in the language chapter.

A-levels and Scottish qualifications

For the British system, the call asks that students passed at least three subjects at an advanced level (A level) with a passing grade in different subjects related to the chosen degree programme. The examination boards considered are Cambridge, Pearson, AQA. For Engineering, Design and Planning, the A-level Italian Language cannot be counted as one of the related subjects. Scottish applicants need a passing grade in at least 3 Advanced Highers or, alternatively, 2 Advanced Highers and at least 4 Highers in related subjects.

US high school diploma and APs

The US route is at least 3 Advanced Placements (APs) with scores ranging from 3 to 5 in three different subjects related to the Bachelor's degree programme. For Engineering, AP Italian Language cannot be counted as one of the related subjects. The page also states that students with a high school diploma plus a full year of subsequent academic studies may be admitted. If you have not yet received your diploma, please upload an official provisional document.

Ten or eleven years of schooling

A diploma earned after fewer years of school can still work, with university exams on top: a diploma after 11 years of school attendance plus all first-year university exams completed with a passing grade, or a diploma after 10 years of school attendance plus all first and second-year university exams completed with a passing grade.

National entrance exam certificates

If your country has a compulsory national entrance exam, you must upload a certificate that you passed it. The page gives examples: YKS, Concurso Vestibular, Gao Kao - minimum score 400 for Marco Polo students, Pruebas de Selectividad, Veveosi Prosvasis.

Declaration of value, CIMEA and ARDI

At the application stage the Declaration of Value, the Certificate of Comparability and the CIMEA Verification Certificate are not required by Politecnico di Torino at this stage, although some embassies may ask for them for the visa. The Attestato di Corrispondenza (Certificate of Correspondence) from the ARDI platform substitutes the Statement of Comparability issued by CIMEA. Documents are accepted in Italian, English, French or Spanish, and others need an official translation.

A Politecnico di Torino Bachelor's degree lasts 3 academic years with a full-time workload for a total of 180 ECTS credits. The Course Catalogue for 2026/2027 lists 26 Bachelor's degree programmes and 35 educational paths taught completely in English.

The duration comes from Polito's Bachelor's page, according to the page as of October 2026. The programme counts are the 2026/2027 catalogue, the latest published, and Polito has not published the 2027/2028 catalogue.

Politecnico di Torino, the Iren power plant facade

Which programmes run in English

Language is set programme by programme, and some programmes are offered in both languages. Polito's programme list shows the languages next to each programme, so check it for your programme and year before you plan around one language. The table gathers programmes for which Polito's pages state the language and the first-year places.

Automotive Engineering as an example of a mixed path

Automotive Engineering is listed with language Italian, English for 2026/2027. Polito describes a path multilingual, with the first and second year in Italian and the third year in English, and a version taught entirely in English. The programme has a capped number of students and a mandatory admission test.

Where you study

The programme list gives a location for each programme: Computer Engineering and Automotive Engineering are both listed at the Engineering Campus. The TIL-I is taken in person in the computer labs of the Torino main campus and of the Mondovì campus, and other TIL-I tests are delivered at the Politecnico HUB in Uzbekistan in the 2026/2027 call. Locations for Architecture, Design and Planning are not stated here, so check the programme page for your course.

Read the programme page for the course you choose before you plan around its content or language.

Politecnico di Torino reports that 96,1% of its Master's graduates were employed one year after graduation in the Almalaurea 2026 survey. The figure is for Master's graduates, not Bachelor's graduates, and it is Polito's own presentation of the survey.

Polito prints the Almalaurea XXVIII survey (2026) result as PoliTO graduates: 96,1%, and for Industrial and Information Engineering as Industrial and Information Engineering: 96,7%. The page also reports that the satisfaction rate of Master's students for the degree programme amounts to 89,1%. Both numbers describe Master's graduates and students. A Bachelor's applicant reads them as a signal about the university, not as the outcome of the Bachelor's degree itself.

Polito prints percentages with the Italian decimal comma. Polito also states graduate volumes for the calendar year 2025: graduates 2025 8,547, a measured past figure and not a hiring statistic.

Career services

The Career Hub says: we support your journey with guidance, training, networking, and placement services, according to the page as of October 2026. The page names these four service areas and gives no placement counts per employer.

Study abroad and joint programmes

Polito's mobility page states that the mobility period abroad usually lasts 1 or 2 semesters, at European or non-European partner universities. Joint programmes are study paths offered by consortia of universities from different countries, with admission at the time of enrolment. Which Bachelor's students can use these options, and when, depends on the programme list, which the mobility page does not detail for Bachelor's students.

For 2026/2027, the latest published, the yearly all-inclusive contribution at Politecnico di Torino cannot be lower than €600.00 (Tmin) nor exceed €3.600.00 (Tmax). Polito writes amounts in the Italian format, with a dot as the thousands separator, so Tmax is three thousand six hundred euros. This is the general range; non-EU students with family income abroad pay a country amount from Annex 2, below. Polito has not published 2027/2028 fees.

How much you pay inside that range depends on who you are. Students from the EU, and non-EU students whose family is in Italy, pay a contribution that depends on the number of years of enrolment, the ISEE value and the minimum number of credits (CFU) required. The ISEE is an Italian family income and assets certificate. For a family abroad, the ISEE Parificato is the certificate for a family that is not resident in Italy or is partly or wholly based abroad.

Non-EU students with family income abroad

For non-EU students whose family income and assets are outside Italy, the Tmax is adjusted according to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) of the country of citizenship. The regulations then list the amounts by country in Annex 2. A fee below is the 2026/2027 amount for students of that citizenship with family income and assets abroad.

The US and UK amounts are higher than the general Tmax above, because for non-EU students with family income abroad the Tmax is adjusted by country, so use the Annex 2 line for your citizenship. The Extra-PoliTo charges below come on top.

Extra charges and the first instalment

On top of tuition, Polito collects the EDISU Regional Tax of €140, the enrolment stamp duty of €16 and the accident insurance premium of €5. The first instalment at enrolment or place reservation is 1st Instalment €161 in the Tuition Fee Regulations, and the same standard amount appears on the enrolment page: 161€.

Waiver for low ISEE

Students with a University ISEE up to a threshold get a full waiver of the contribution except the Extra-PoliTo charges, and Polito states that it has extended the University ISEE threshold for this exemption to €30,000. Whether a non-EU student with family income abroad can use that waiver depends on the ISEE Parificato, so ask Polito's fee office before assuming it.

Cost of living in Turin

Polito's cost-of-living page, according to the page as of October 2026, gives monthly figures: a single room generally ranges from around 400-600 euros per month, food between 200 and 300 euros, utilities around 70-100 euros per month and a monthly student transport subscription of approximately 26 euros. These are Polito's ranges, not a computed budget.

Money support for Politecnico di Torino Bachelor's students comes in three forms documented here: a fee waiver for low ISEE, a merit benefit, and the regional EDISU scholarship and housing service. Plan on fee relief and EDISU first, and treat any other scholarship as something to confirm with the awarding body.

The regional body EDISU Piemonte provides support to the study attendance and life of students through benefits granted by public competition: accommodation service and scholarship, according to the page as of October 2026. A public competition is a call with its own selection rules, so a place is not automatic. Amounts and eligibility sit with EDISU, not with Polito, and are outside this chapter.

Fee relief in practice

Fee relief is the lever Polito documents most fully. A University ISEE up to the threshold in the table removes the contribution apart from the Extra-PoliTo charges, and non-EU students with family income abroad get a fee scaled to their country. The tuition chapter gives the amounts.

What this chapter does not cover

This chapter does not cover a TOPoliTO award, a MAECI scholarship, on-campus part-time jobs or student loans, because Polito publishes them as separate calls that change from year to year. If you rely on an external scholarship, confirm with the awarding body that it applies to a Bachelor's degree at Polito for your intake.

Politecnico di Torino points students to three housing routes: the EDISU Piemonte accommodation service, the Borsellino residence for short stays, and Collegio Einaudi. For a private room, Polito states that rooms generally range from around 400-600 euros per month for a single room, according to the page as of October 2026.

The rent range is Polito's own estimate for Turin, and it is not a quote for a particular flat. Polito adds that the cost can also be halved in the case of a shared room.

EDISU residences

EDISU's accommodation service is allocated by public competition, the same mechanism as the EDISU scholarship. Call dates and bed prices are set by EDISU, so read EDISU's own call before you plan your arrival date.

Short stays and Collegio Einaudi

For a first few weeks, the page says international students, guests and visitors coming to Politecnico for study, research or work can book a place in single or twin room at the Borsellino residence. Collegio Einaudi is a different kind of option: a merit-based university college.

Housing contribution

A ministerial contribution to housing rental expenses has its own application round. In 2026 the application window closed on July 31st, 2026, at 12:00 PM (Italian time). That is a past round and not a rule for 2027/2028; the next round has not been published, and the page does not say which students qualify.

Student life at Politecnico di Torino runs through registered groups: students can join various Student Teams and Student Societies registered with the University. Polito also runs a welcome programme for new arrivals and a sport offer built around a Dual Career Programme.

Polito does not give a number of societies or teams on the pages used for this chapter, so it describes what exists and does not count it. The groups are very heterogeneous: students belong to different degree programmes and come from many different countries, which matters if you arrive without Italian contacts.

Turin skyline with the Alps

Student societies

Societies are recognised through a formal step: Polito keeps a Register of Student Associations recognized by the Polytechnic of Turin, according to the page as of October 2026. Cultural, social, sports and educational groups can sit in the register, so check it for a group that matches your interest before you arrive.

Sport

Sport is organised under the PoliTO Sporty Campus name. The page describes one programme in detail: the Dual Career Programme supports student-athletes in balancing a sporting career with their academic education. Facilities and the list of sports are not given here, so confirm them on the sport pages.

Welcome programme

The welcome programme includes activities and initiatives aimed at facilitating your arrival and stay in Torino. Polito does not list Welcome Weeks dates or a buddy scheme in the cited pages, so ask the international students office what is planned for your intake.

Polito also teaches abroad: its pages list TTPU Uzbekistan Campus under Polito around the world.

A non-EU student living abroad must make the pre-enrolment exclusively through the UNIVERSITALY portal, and in the 2026/2027 call, the latest published, Polito stated that the application was to be submitted by 30 th June 2026. That deadline was indicative, and Polito has not published the 2027/2028 date.

Polito stresses that these deadlines are indicative and meant to encourage early applications once eligibility is confirmed, and that the Universitaly portal stays open. The date is a target to meet, not a hard closing time, but a late application leaves less time for the visa.

When Polito validates the pre-enrolment

Polito validates the pre-enrolment only after the conditions are met. The page lists them as you have paid the first instalment of the tuition fees, on top of the test result or international certificate, the enrolment and the uploaded documents. After your application has been validated, you must apply for a study visa at the relevant diplomatic-consular representation.

If the visa is refused

Admission to Polito does not automatically guarantee that you will obtain a visa, and if you are denied a visa, you will not be able to enrol at Politecnico di Torino. Plan the first instalment and any housing deposit with that risk in mind.

After you arrive

On arrival, you must go to the local Questura (Immigration Office) within 8 working days of your arrival in Italy, according to the page as of October 2026. For health cover, the immigration law requires you to take out a health insurance during your stay in Italy.

Politecnico di Torino suits applicants who want an engineering, architecture, design or planning degree, can show English at B2 level for the 35 educational paths taught completely in English (2026/2027 catalogue), and can prepare for a test route that is changing for 2027/2028. It is a weaker fit if you want a broad degree or cannot sit an in-person test.

The fields are those of the 2026/2027 catalogue: the 26 Bachelor's degree programmes cover Engineering and Architecture, Design and Spatial Planning. The language bar is B2: English Level B2 or above for English-taught programmes. On cost, the general all-inclusive contribution runs from €600.00 (Tmin) to €3.600.00 (Tmax) in 2026/2027, with country amounts for non-EU students whose family income is abroad, and low-ISEE families can use the waiver in the tuition chapter.

Rules that catch international applicants

• A secondary high school diploma earned after at least 12 years of school attendance is the general entry rule; shorter schooling needs extra university years or a foundation course.
• Architecture does not take the SAT: SAT is NOT VALID for Architecture in the 2026/2027 call.
• In 2026/2027 the language certificate deadline for non-EU applicants residing abroad and requiring a visa was Friday 22nd May 2026, earlier than the EU deadline.
• A study permit from an exchange or language course does not allow enrolment in a Bachelor's degree programme.
• Admission does not automatically guarantee that you will obtain a visa.

What to do now

Watch Polito's calls page for the 2027/2028 call, read the CISIA pages that Polito links to, and book an in-person test seat once Polito names the accepted test for your programme. Keep an English certificate at B2 level ready, because the certificate table is the latest published. Until the call is out, treat every date, threshold and fee in this report as the 2026/2027 position, not as a rule for your intake.

Official pages of the Politecnico di Torino, UCAS, gov.uk and the ranking publishers. Applicant reports, where shown, are self-reported and labelled.

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Photos: Politecnico di Torino, main building: photo unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons · Valentino Castle in Turin, used by the Politecnico: photo Golden globe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons · Politecnico di Torino, the Iren power plant facade: photo Fulvio Spada from Torino, Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons · Turin skyline with the Alps: photo Tomatis Davide, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons