Why master's programmes benefit from strong employer connections

I think there are two major details. First of all, our master's have a strong experiential approach. This pertains to teaching activities, which are strongly based on case studies, assignments, challenges and group work sessions.

More importantly, from the beginning of the master's, in parallel with the teaching classes, students have a direct connection with the professional world through both the skills they'll learn which are needed to enter the job market and then by means of a series of professional experiences in connection with companies. Finally, students are given the possibility to have a real internship.

The second point concerns the international and multicultural experience in which they will be immersed, with students from more than 50 countries experiencing the campus and learning from each other how to cope with diversity and multicultural approaches.

Our programmes are evolving through an ever-stronger connection with companies and the possibility of having practical experiences among different classes, some in Italy and others abroad, to allow students to really design their own “master's experience”.

Our programmes offer a broad set of extracurricular activities pertaining to challenges and projects with companies, company presentations and workshops on evolving new topics. To give you some evidence, over the last year we had over 3,000 hours of classes given by managers, entrepreneurs and specialists, more than 900 company visits and over 700 projects in partnership with companies.

The work placements are a fundamental part, as almost 90 percent of our students have the possibility of having an internship as their final thesis, before graduation. This opportunity generally translates into a permanent position after graduation, either in Italy or elsewhere in Europe.