Excellence Award

The 15 best students for each year of course will be selected in descending order of single-module GPA converted into a score out of 110 as of 10 August 2024.

In order to specifically enhance the number of credits earned by students, the selection criterion for Excellence Award recipients stipulates that an additional 0.05 points is added to the single-module GPA converted into a score out of 110 as described above for each credit earned by the student on top of the minimum required credit threshold.

Students meeting the above mentioned requirements will be automatically evaluated by the Fees, Funding and Housing Office along with the Scholarship Committee during the month of November 2024. Awards will be assigned until funds are exhausted.

Awardees will be informed by the end of November 2024 and will benefit from a full tuition and fees waiver for the academic year of assignment. The first installment-advance payment already paid to finalize enrollment in the academic year will be refunded by February 2025 to the bank account indicated in the student's Punto Blu.

The benefit for the academic year 2024-2025 will be included in the student's financial situation, which can be viewed at the Punto Blu (> administrative area> Fees, Funding and Housing) ONLY upon verification by the Fees, Funding and Housing Office that the student accepted the assigned benefit.

The Excellence Award may also be supported by donor companies, Alumni, individuals and foundations who sometimes wish to identify a single deserving student, who is then associated with their support, instead of allocating their contribution generically to a project. For this reason, during the academic year, the recipient students may be contacted by the Fundraising Department of Bocconi University for information regarding named scholarships, their benefits and opportunities and for the participation in academic or extra-academic activities even in the presence of Donors.

It is specified that students who in the academic year 2024-2025 will be "registered with reserve" (or have enrollment subject to reserve) will not be able to view in the system the benefit assigned for the academic year 2023-2024 and will not be able to receive a refund of the first installment paid (advance payment) for 2023-2024 until the reserve is lifted.

An automatic renewal of the award for the following academic year is NOT foreseen.

Nevertheless, students who have been awarded for a.y. 2024-2025 may be taken into consideration for the assignment of the same benefit for the following academic year 2024-2025.

The provisions above constitute official publication of the regulations concerning the renewal of the “Excellence Awards ” benefit for assignees in the a.y. 2024-2025.

The Excellence Award will be revoked in the following cases:

> acceptance and/or award of an equal or larger benefit in Bocconi for the same academic year; it is specified in this regard that in case the student should subsequently lose the larger benefit, the Excellence Award can never be reinstated;

> verifications carried out by the Fees, Funding and Housing Office reveal false declarations made by the student for the assignment of the award: the revocation shall take effect starting from the moment in which the illicit behavior took place and shall entail the full payment of due tuition and fees starting from the academic year in which the student benefited from the Excellence Award following false declarations (articles 71 and 75 of Italian D.P.R. 445/2000);

> disciplinary sanctions imposed by Bocconi University: in this case, the revocation of the benefit will start from the day the disciplinary sanction is imposed. Students whose award is revoked will be required to pay any tuition and fees installments that may still be due according to their fees target at the date of the revocation, according to the official deadlines defined by the Fees, Funding and Housing Office.

The forfeiture of the benefit will take place if the student withdraws from their studies or transfers to another University during the academic year; in such cases, the forfeiture takes effect from the moment of withdrawal or transfer.