Welcome Days — MSc programs
Useful info, exciting programs, new friends
Your Bocconi learning experience starts on 25 August 2022 with the welcome and academic activities. Meet faculty, make friends and have fun!
Additional information on how to prepare before getting to Bocconi are available in your yoU@B student diary.
Welcome Days: the program
Start your university experience with the right foot and join us for introductory events, courses and activities.
Welcome to Bocconi
Introduction to Bocconi
Monday 29 August, 6pm — Aula Magna via Roentgen,1
Antonella Carù, Dean, Graduate School
Welcome to all first year MSc students
Tuesday 6 September, 6:30pm — Aula Magna via Roentgen 1
Gianmario Verona, Rector
Antonella Carù, Dean, Graduate School
Keynote Speaker: Alberto Calcagno, CEO, Fastweb
Know your program
Welcome from Directors and Kick-off Meeting
From 5 September (during lecture times)
Meet your Program Director and the related career service consultant and listen to testimonies from your MSc program. Program Directors will introduce faculty members, describe the teaching model, the structure of the specific graduate degree program and will highlight important opportunities dedicated to MSc students.
Your Career Service consultant will provide an overview of the dedicated services and activities and will explain how you can actively plan your career since the beginning of your experience at Bocconi.
Preparatory courses - from 25 August
These courses consolidate several topics covered during the first year of your degree program and will help you start your Bocconi experience with more self-confidence and stable notions. Timetable and rooms will be available in the yoU@B Agenda.
Check here for a short intensive Italian language online course to help you interact during the first days in Italy!Get information
Two areas where you can talk to our current students, clear your doubts and gather useful information.
Welcome Desk
25 August (from 2.00pm) - 5 September
9:00am - 5:00pm Via Roentgen 1 (Monday - Friday)
Pick up your Welcome Kit and get information on university services, student life, campus facilities. You can ask for a campus tour as well.
If you haven't picked up your Welcome Kit yet, you will be able to request it at the B in Touch Point starting from September 14, from Monday to Friday in the afternoon (from 2.00 to 5.00pm).
Welcome Lounge
26 August — 02 September (on specific time and dates)
Piazza Sraffa 13 — Outside tents
Talk to current students and listen to advice and suggestions from their own experience. Each MSc program has dedicated representatives available at specific time slots and dates, check them out.
Virtual Orientation Pills
The Academic Services, IT Education Center, Language Center, Serivce Design & Intelligence and Campus Life office share necessary information to help freshmen start their academic year. These four video pills will be published in the yoU@B and accessible from early August.
YesMilano Workshops and Desk
YesMilano, the Milanese Chamber of Commerce agency for student internationalization, will be on campus on 30 August and 2 September with a dedicated desk. Open 9:00am-5:00pm, the desk will provide first-year students with information on relocating to Milan and life in the city.
YesMilano staff will also hold 4 in-person workshops on the national healthcare system and housing rentals in Milan in the following dates
- 30 August - Room N03, Piazza Sraffa 13
12:00-1:00pm The Italian National Healthcare System (SSN)
1:00-2:00pm Housing Rentals in Milan - 2 September - Room N13, Piazza Sraffa 13
12:00-1:00pm Housing Rentals in Milan
1:00-2:00pm The Italian National Healthcare System (SSN)
Know your campus
Bocconi has a lively campus life: it's time for you to know more about our students associations and extracurricular activities.
29 August - 16 September
Campus Life and Bocconi Sport team corner (Outside tents
)
A dedicated booth to discover cultural and sport activities, students dedicated spaces within the University and the New Bocconi Sport Center.
12 - 16 September
- Associations on display (9.30AM- 6PM)
Student Associations present their activities. Discover here the program. - Students associations activities
The Bocconi student associations welcome new students and present their activities