Required qualifications and knowledge

Admission requires an upper secondary school diploma or another qualification obtained abroad and recognised as suitable. The programme requires a solid grounding in humanities, mathematics (sets, equations and inequalities, analytic geometry and analytic functions), and science at upper secondary school level; basic knowledge of at least one foreign language among English, French, German and Spanish; and familiarity with computer tools.

Applicants’ possession of the knowledge required for admission is assessed through an entry test, which is compulsory but not selective, to be taken according to the procedures defined in agreement with the other Degree Programmes of the School of Economics and Management of the University of Florence and in compliance with the University Academic Regulations. Any additional learning requirements (OFA) must be fulfilled within the first year of enrolment. After enrolment, supplementary support modules may be provided for some courses in order to help students fill gaps in their prerequisite knowledge.

International students are required to hold a B2-level certificate in Italian as a foreign language, issued by institutions recognised by the Ministry and belonging to the Quality Certification of the Italian Language association – CLIQ (Società Dante Alighieri, University for Foreigners of Perugia, University for Foreigners of Siena, and Roma Tre University). This requirement does not apply to students participating in international exchange programmes.

Mathematics for economic applications course

The mathematics for economic applications course has the following prerequisites: natural numbers, integers and rational numbers. Prime numbers. Factorisation of a natural number into prime factors. Greatest common divisor and least common multiple. Percentage calculations. Real numbers (intuitive understanding). Absolute value. Powers and roots. Polynomials. Sum and product of polynomials. Square and cube of a binomial. Special products. Factorisation of simple polynomials. Rational expressions. Sum and product of rational expressions. Identities. Equations and solutions of an equation. Inequalities and solutions of an inequality. First- and second-degree equations and inequalities. Equations and inequalities of degree higher than two. Equations and inequalities involving rational expressions. Irrational equations and inequalities. Systems of equations and inequalities. Orthogonal Cartesian coordinates in the plane. Pythagorean theorem. Distance between two points. Equation of a straight line. Linear systems of two equations in two unknowns. Parallelism and perpendicularity of two straight lines. Equation of a parabola. Equation of a circle. Set theory: membership, inclusion, intersection, union, complement and empty set. Linear functions, quadratic functions and their graphs.

Is the entry test important?