PRIMARY CAMPUS: Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. The brochure 'At a Glance' box states simply 'Campus: Bozen-Bolzano' — unlike the sister inter-university master EMMA, this programme does NOT advertise a second campus in its headline data, even though its second year can be taken abroad. TWO PHYSICAL SITES IN BOLZANO. (1) The main campus, Universitätsplatz 1 / piazza Università 1, 39100 Bozen-Bolzano (Advisory Service, tel. +39 0471 012100), with the Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences Secretariat at Universitätsplatz 5 / piazza Università 5 (tel. +39 0471 017000, agriculture@unibz.it). (2) NOI TECHPARK, the South Tyrolean science-and-technology park on the southern edge of Bolzano, which houses this programme's teaching laboratories. Brochure, verbatim: 'The teaching laboratories of this master offer hands-on training in food production, analysis, and quality assessment. Located at NOI Techpark, they feature facilities for food processing, sensory evaluation, and chemical, physical, and microbiological analysis.' Students on this master therefore commute between the city-centre campus and NOI Techpark; unibz's own emergency-contact page treats 'Bolzano centro e NOI Techpark Bolzano' as two distinct locations with separate laboratory emergency numbers. This is a laboratory-heavy programme — the published 'Hands-on Experience' items include cheese-making, green-tea antioxidant extraction, iron/plant nutrition work, DNA extraction and natural-leavening bread work. SECOND YEAR: THE CAMPUS DEPENDS ON THE PROFILE CHOSEN. Year 1 (61 CP) is taken at unibz by everyone. From year 2 the profile determines the host institution: 'Innovation and Authenticity of Wines' stays at unibz in Bolzano; 'Food Quality Control and Management' is offered at the University of Udine (Friuli Venezia Giulia, ca. 300 km east of Bolzano); 'Nutrition Sciences' at the University of Parma (Emilia-Romagna, ca. 250 km south); 'Food Chemistry' at University College Cork, Ireland (School of Food & Nutritional Sciences). The programme page adds: 'Students will have the opportunity to spend up to two semesters in one of these European partner institutions.' The thesis (33 CP) may be carried out at unibz, at a partner university, at a foreign university or jointly, and is frequently co-supervised with a food company. NOT a Brixen-Bressanone or Bruneck-Brunico programme, and — unlike EMMA — NOT a fixed two-country programme: the Bolzano-only route through the Wines profile is fully available. It is genuinely unclear how much physical relocation the Udine and Parma profiles involve. The published 2026/27 unibz course catalogue lists the Udine profile courses (Advanced sample preparation techniques and analysis of food contaminants; Management systems of food safety and quality; Food structure and physical properties) and the Parma profile courses (Human Nutrition; Applied human nutrition; Industrial microbiology for food quality improvement) INSIDE the unibz course offering, taught by Udine and Parma professors, which may mean they are delivered in Bolzano by visiting staff rather than requiring the student to move. The University of Parma's page, by contrast, describes the profile-specific teaching as taking place at the partner universities in the third semester. This directly affects housing, cost of living and (for non-EU students) residence-permit planning, and must be confirmed with the Faculty before choosing a profile.
Derece Sınıfı
LM-70 / LM-73 / LM-18 / L-26
Kabul Tipi
RESTRICTED ACCESS (numero programmato / 'programmazione locale' in the University of Udine's registration), decided by a purely DOCUMENT-BASED, ARITHMETIC ranking. There is NO entrance exam, NO TOLC, NO SAT, NO GRE/GMAT, NO portfolio, NO motivation letter, NO video presentation and NO INTERVIEW. Together with EMMA this is one of the two simplest admission procedures at unibz. MECHANICS, verbatim from the admission-information PDF and the signed ranking list (identical wording): 'If the number of eligible applicants exceeds the maximum number of available places (see section "Available places"), you will be assessed for admission based on your academic qualifications. The Admission Committee can assign up to a max. of 95 points based on the: final bachelor grade expressed out of 30 (for applicants already graduated); weighted grade average expressed out of 30 (for applicants not graduated yet). The Admission Committee will assign 2 points to candidates who graduated with honors (cum laude). Candidates who possess at least a C1 certificate in the official teaching language of the course (English) will be assigned 3 points. Minimum score for admission is 55/95 points.' SO THE PROCEDURE HAS EXACTLY FOUR STAGES: (1) an ELIGIBILITY CHECK on the entry qualification — one of four Italian bachelor classes, or 30 ECTS across a very wide list of scientific sectors; (2) a LANGUAGE GATE at English B2, failure of which means exclusion from the procedure regardless of grade (8 EU applicants were excluded on this ground in Early Bird 2026/27); (3) an ARITHMETIC SCORE out of 95 derived from the bachelor grade, plus 2 for cum laude and plus 3 for a C1 English certificate; (4) a stated MINIMUM of 55/95. A MANDATORY STRUCTURED EXCEL FILE must be uploaded: 'Excel file: Please use the file available in the application portal.' Applications go through the unibz Application Portal at https://aws.unibz.it/exup. TIE-BREAK, in order: 'If scores are equal, applicants who have already graduated take precedence over applicants who have not graduated yet. In the event of further equal score, the younger applicant will be given priority (art. 3 L. 127/1997).' This mattered in 2026/27: EU ranks 13 and 14 both scored 83.77, and non-EU waiting-list ranks 16 and 17 both scored 78.76. ADMISSION COMMITTEE for 2026/27, from the signed ranking list: President Prof. Matteo Mario Scampicchio (who is also the Degree Course Director); Members Prof. Youry Pii and Dr. Ksenia Morozova. Appeals may be lodged with the Bozen-Bolzano Administrative Court within 60 days of publication. HISTORICAL NOTE: the 2021/22 Parma brochure described access as 'Open access (Up to 35 EU students + 5 non-EU students)', i.e. capped but not competitive in practice. AlmaLaurea's records for 2024/25 and 2025/26 describe the committee as awarding 'up to 100 points'; the current unibz documents say 95. The scale appears to have been changed, and AlmaLaurea's figure should be treated as stale.
Resmî Eğitim Dili
FULLY ENGLISH-TAUGHT, START TO FINISH, WITH NO SECOND OR THIRD LANGUAGE ANYWHERE IN THE PROGRAMME. This is NOT one of unibz's trilingual programmes. Brochure 'At a Glance', verbatim: 'Courses will be taught in English'. Admission-information PDF, verbatim: 'The official teaching language is English.' The only admission language requirement is English B2; there is NO German and NO Italian requirement at entry, NO third-language B1 threshold gating exams, and NO exit/graduation language requirement. VERIFIED AT COURSE LEVEL, NOT JUST IN THE MARKETING TEXT: the unibz 'Course Offering - Enrolled from 2025' page for 2026/27 lists every single teaching unit with an explicit language tag, and every one of them — the whole first year, all four second-year profiles, the three 'Mobility activity' units and all twelve free-choice courses — is tagged 'EN'. Not one course in the published catalogue is offered in German or Italian. This is a stronger guarantee than most unibz English-taught masters can show, and it holds even for the courses taught by University of Udine and University of Parma staff (e.g. Sabrina Moret, Sonia Calligaris and Lara Manzocco from Udine; Daniele Del Rio, Pedro Mena and Alessia Levante from Parma), which appear in the unibz catalogue in English. THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT IS TRILINGUAL BUT THE DEGREE IS NOT: Bolzano is officially bilingual German/Italian, and one of the programme's own published alumni testimonials notes taking optional German classes ('After a first year in Bolzano, where I took the opportunity to attend German language classes thanks to the University's trilinguism proactive setup'). Language Centre courses in German and Italian are available on a voluntary basis and are worth taking for the South Tyrolean food-industry job market, but they carry no admission or graduation consequence. For students who choose the Udine, Parma or University College Cork second-year profile, the admission documents do not state whether any locally-offered elective at the host institution might be delivered in Italian; the unibz catalogue tags all listed units EN, but the host universities' own wider elective menus are not reproduced there. Confirm with the degree course director before choosing a partner profile.
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Kaynaklı kabul dosyası
1. Başvuru takvimi
AB / AEA adayları
THREE POTENTIAL WINDOWS FOR EU CITIZENS AND CITIZENS GIVEN PARITY OF TREATMENT, two of them fixed and published, the third discretionary. All dates below are from the 2026/27 admission-information PDF (unibz writes DD/MM/YYYY; ISO equivalents given in brackets) and all deadlines fall at NOON local time — 12:00 Central European Time, not midnight.
1. EARLY BIRD APPLICATION — 'Application: 02/03 - 28/04/2026 (by noon local time)'. ISO: 2 Mart 2026 to 28 Nisan 2026, 12:00 CET/CEST. This is the only window open to BOTH EU and non-EU applicants. It carried 35 of the 40 EU places.
2. LATE APPLICATION (ONLY FOR EU CITIZENS) — 'Application: 28/05 - 20/08/2026 (by noon local time)'. ISO: 28 Mayıs 2026 to 20 Ağustos 2026, 12:00 CEST. It carried 5 EU places, plus any Early Bird places left unfilled: 'For EU citizens and citizens given parity of treatment only: any remaining places of the early bird application, will be offered in the late application.' Because the 2026/27 Early Bird EU list admitted only 25 against 35 places, roughly 15 EU places were available in the Late round — an unusually favourable position for a late EU applicant.
AB / AEA dışı adaylar
ONE SINGLE WINDOW, AND IT IS THE EARLY BIRD WINDOW: 02/03/2026 – 28/04/2026, by noon local time (ISO: 2 Mart 2026 to 28 Nisan 2026, 12:00 CET/CEST). Verbatim from the admission-information PDF: 'Non-EU-Citizens (living outside of Italy) — Only one application period is offered. After the deadline it is not possible to apply anymore. Application fee: € 50.'
THIS IS THE HARDEST DEADLINE IN THE WHOLE RECORD AND THE MOST COMMON WAY A TURKISH APPLICANT LOSES A YEAR. There is no Late Application and no Additional Session for non-EU citizens living abroad — both are labelled 'only for EU citizens'. Missing 28 April means waiting a full twelve months. The 8 non-EU places are allocated entirely within this one round.
THE ASSOCIATED CALENDAR FOR A NON-EU APPLICANT IN 2026/27 WAS:
2. Kabul koşulları
Akademik geçmiş
TWO ALTERNATIVE ROUTES, AND THE SECOND IS EXTRAORDINARILY PERMISSIVE BY UNIBZ STANDARDS. Admission-information PDF, verbatim preamble: 'In order to gain admission to this programme you need to possess an adequate knowledge of the basic disciplines of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology and fundamental knowledge of the subjects preparatory to the fundamental disciplines of this degree class. What is more, you need to hold one of the following qualifications:'
ROUTE 1 — a bachelor degree in one of four Italian degree classes: 'L-25 ex D.M. 270/2004 (Agriculture and Forestry) or the corresponding class ex D.M. 509/99
L-26 (Food Sciences) or the corresponding class ex D.M. 509/99
Dil yeterliliği
ONE REQUIREMENT ONLY: ENGLISH AT B2 (CEFR) FOR ADMISSION. Verbatim: 'The official teaching language is English. Therefore, the following language requirements apply, otherwise you will be excluded from the admission procedure: Entry level (to gain admission) English: B2. The levels of the Common European Framework of Reference apply.'
There is NO German requirement, NO Italian requirement, NO third-language B1 threshold and NO graduation/exit language requirement. This is an English-taught, not a trilingual, programme, and the 'For information on studying in three languages also visit the following page' line at the end of the language section is boilerplate that applies to unibz generally, not to this degree.
THE LANGUAGE GATE IS A HARD KNOCK-OUT AND IS THE SINGLE BIGGEST CAUSE OF FAILURE IN THIS APPLICATION. Failure to prove B2 means exclusion from the admission procedure regardless of grade. In the 2026/27 Early Bird EU round, EIGHT applicants (IDs 152607, 155926, 153571, 155924, 152016, 148589, 154853, 147169) were listed under 'The following persons do not meet the language requirements for admission and are therefore excluded from the admission procedure. They may re-apply in the second session.' Against 25 admitted that is roughly a quarter of the EU applicant pool — and it happened in a round that did not fill its 35 places, so those candidates lost places that were sitting empty. By comparison, the sister programme EMMA lost only 2 applicants on language in the same cycle. Whatever the cause — late uploads, missing medium-of-instruction letters, certificates older than five years, or 'home edition' online exams — this is the failure mode to plan against.
Sınav / değerlendirme
NO ENTRANCE EXAM OF ANY KIND. Specifically absent: no unibz admission test; no TOLC (TOLC-I, TOLC-E, TOLC-S or TOLC-B); no CENT-S; no SAT, GRE or GMAT and no GMAT/GRE bonus; no subject test; no oral interview; no portfolio review; no video presentation; no laboratory practical. Admission is decided purely on uploaded documents plus an arithmetic score computed from the bachelor grade.
THE ONLY EXAM AN APPLICANT MIGHT SIT is the ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY EXAM run by the unibz Language Centre, and only if they cannot prove B2 English through the medium of instruction of their high school or degree, or through a recognised certificate. It is held ONLINE and is computer-based. 2026/27 sittings and their registration windows, verbatim from the admission-information PDF:
— Early Bird: '16/03/2026 (registration: 02 - 09/03/2026) and 16 - 17 and 20 - 21/04/2026 (registration: 24/03 - 08/04/2026)';
3. Hazırlanacak belgeler
AT APPLICATION — four items, exactly as enumerated in the admission-information PDF:
0. VALID ID, at account creation: 'You need to create an account and upload a valid ID card or passport (front/back). Please note: if your document is invalid, incomplete or unreadable, you will be excluded from the admission procedure.'
1. QUALIFICATION: 'if graduated in Italy: diploma supplement or self-declaration (following the Italian D.P.R. no. 445/2000) of the degree awarded with the final grade and passed exams (if graduated) or, if not graduated yet, a certificate listing the exams passed; if graduated abroad: diploma supplement or final degree certificate with the passed exams (if graduated) or transcript of records (if not graduated yet) in Italian, German or English.' Mandatory contents: 'final grade, passed exams with indication of grade and date of passing, credit points, scientific fields (the latter only for Italian titles). For qualifications obtained abroad, also: scale of grades awarded by the university of provenance (with a minimum final grade to obtain the qualification and a maximum final grade achievable).'
DATA VINTAGE. Everything in this record describes the 2026/27 cycle, from unibz documents footed 'Latest update: 24.07.2026' and from the signed 2026/27 Early Bird ranking list, all retrieved on 29 Ağustos 2026. On that date the 2026/27 cycle was effectively closed: both EU windows and the single non-EU window had expired, and only enrolment formalities remained. A reader planning an application is planning for 2027/28, for which NO dates, quotas or fees have been published. The observed calendar has been stable across four cycles (Early Bird opening in the first days of March and closing in the last days of April; Late running from late May to the third week of August), so those ranges are a reasonable planning basis, but they are extrapolations.
THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT UNRESOLVED QUESTION — WHERE THE SECOND YEAR PHYSICALLY HAPPENS. unibz's brochure lists 'Campus: Bozen-Bolzano' with no second campus, and the 2026/27 unibz course catalogue lists the Udine and Parma profile courses INSIDE the unibz offering, taught by Udine and Parma professors, all tagged EN. The University of Parma, by contrast, describes profile-specific teaching as taking place at the partner universities in the third semester, and unibz's own programme page says students 'will have the opportunity to spend up to two semesters in one of these European partner institutions'. These two pictures are not reconcilable from public sources. The difference matters for housing, cost of living, residence-permit address updates and — for the University College Cork path — a possible move to a different country's immigration system. This must be settled with the Faculty Secretariat (agriculture@unibz.it, +39 0471 017000) before a candidate commits.
THE JOINT-DEGREE MECHANICS ARE UNDOCUMENTED. That the award is a joint degree ('rilascio del titolo congiunto') is stated plainly by Udine and by Parma and is not in doubt. But the underlying inter-university convention is not published by any of the three universities, and nothing public explains how the diploma is issued, whether the partner universities levy any fee, how the 5 University College Cork places are allocated, or whether profile choice is free or competitive.
TEMPLATE ERRORS IN UNIBZ'S OWN DOCUMENTS, recorded so they are not mistaken for data: the admission-information PDF's double-enrolment example says 'LM-73 and LM-73' (EMMA's class), and the ranking list's second statement of the same rule says 'LM-18/LM-18' (Software Engineering's class). The correct class is LM-70, confirmed by the brochure, the programme page, the University of Udine and AlmaLaurea, and used correctly in the ranking list's first statement of the rule.
NAMING INCONSISTENCY: the brochure calls the Udine profile 'Food Quality and Management' on page 3 and 'Food Quality Control and Management' on page 4. The latter matches the 2021 Parma documentation.
THE SCORING CONVERSION IS DERIVED, NOT PUBLISHED. The model base = 5 × (grade out of 30) − 55, capped at 95, with +2 cum laude and +3 for C1, fits the published minimum (55 = 22/30), the maximum (95 = 30/30) and the sister programme EMMA's integer distribution, and it is the only model tested that does not produce impossible sub-18/30 grades for the lowest waiting-list scores. It should nonetheless be treated as a strong working model rather than an official rule.
AN UNEXPLAINED ANOMALY IN THE RANKING LIST: the stated minimum is 55/95, yet non-EU waiting-list ranks 37 and 38 carry scores of 53.73 and 51.45. Unlike EMMA's list, this one has no 'below the minimum score' exclusion section, so it cannot be determined whether the minimum is applied only at the moment of admission or whether the waiting list is simply published in full. Practical effect is limited — nobody near the bottom of a 30-person waiting list was ever going to be admitted — but the rule's exact operation is unclear.
CONFLICTING SECONDARY DATA. AlmaLaurea records the admission committee as awarding 'up to 100 points' for both 2024/25 and 2025/26, while unibz's own current documents say 95; AlmaLaurea also gives EUR 1,350 as the 2024/25 annual cost against EUR 1,200 now. Where AlmaLaurea and unibz disagree, the unibz document governs. AlmaLaurea's 'five distinct profiles' phrasing is likewise stale — there are four.
SOURCES THAT COULD NOT BE READ. The University of Parma's live course page (corsi.unipr.it) serves a JavaScript CAPTCHA human-verification wall to automated clients and was not accessed; the Parma information in this record therefore comes from the University of Udine's parallel page, from Parma's own 2021/22 PDF brochure on its albo pretorio, and from search-engine extracts of the Parma page. The unibz grade-statistics page for this programme returns HTTP 200 but loads its figures dynamically and yielded no static content, so no exam-grade or final-grade distribution could be captured — a gap relative to the EMMA record, which has one.
FIGURES TAKEN FROM SECONDARY SUMMARIES RATHER THAN PRIMARY PAGES: the provincial study-grant range of EUR 1,680–6,960, the 27/30 merit threshold, the two-year residence rule for non-EU merit applicants, and the part-time fee halving. All are consistent with unibz's Study Guide as summarised, but the primary Study Guide pages redirected in ways that prevented direct capture during this pass, and provincial amounts are re-set annually.
NOT DOCUMENTED ANYWHERE: how a non-Italian 'with honours' distinction maps onto the +2 cum laude bonus; whether a non-Italian graduate can sit the Tecnologo Alimentare state examination; health-insurance requirements for the study visa; the amount of the late-payment fine on the second instalment; and the founding year, which is taken from AlmaLaurea's 'inception 2018' record rather than from a unibz announcement.
STILL PENDING AT THE VERIFICATION DATE: the 2026/27 Late Application ranking list, due by 03/09/2026, which will show whether the EU side finally filled; and any Additional Application Session, which the Faculty may open for EU citizens given that the EU Early Bird list admitted only 25 against 35 places.
Programme page link note: https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/agricultural-environmental-food-sciences/master-food-sciences-innovation-authenticity (verified HTTP 200 on 29 Ağustos 2026).
LANGUAGE VERSIONS — UNUSUAL AND WORTH RECORDING: unlike almost every other unibz programme, this one exists in ENGLISH ONLY. The German URL https://www.unibz.it/de/faculties/agricultural-environmental-food-sciences/master-food-sciences-innovation-authenticity returns HTTP 404 — there is no German page at all. The Italian and Ladin URLs return HTTP 200 but serve only a stub carrying the notice 'Siamo spiacenti, questa pagina non è disponibile in italiano. Vai alla pagina in inglese.' The English page itself carries the banner 'This page is only available in English'. Neither the Italian nor the Ladin navigation translates the programme name.
RELATED UNIBZ PAGES: study plan https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/agricultural-environmental-food-sciences/master-food-sciences-innovation-authenticity/study-plan ; course offering (the single most useful secondary page, listing every 2026/27 teaching unit with credits, course code, new-reform SSD code, language tag and named lecturer, plus the full free-choice menu) https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/agricultural-environmental-food-sciences/master-food-sciences-innovation-authenticity/courses-offered ; grade statistics https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/agricultural-environmental-food-sciences/master-food-sciences-innovation-authenticity/grade-statistics (HTTP 200, but the statistics themselves load dynamically and returned no static content); Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/agricultural-environmental-food-sciences ; faculty state examinations (Tecnologo Alimentare) https://www.unibz.it/it/faculties/agricultural-environmental-food-sciences/esami-di-stato ; application portal https://aws.unibz.it/exup .
PARTNER-UNIVERSITY PAGES, essential here because they state the joint-degree status that unibz's own page only implies: University of Udine https://www.uniud.it/it/didattica/corsi/area-scientifica/agraria/laurea-magistrale/food-sciences-innovation-authenticity/corso/food-sciences-innovation-authenticity and its objectives page .../corso/obiettivi-sbocchi ; University of Parma https://corsi.unipr.it/en/cdlm-fsia (NOTE: this host serves a JavaScript/CAPTCHA human-verification wall to automated clients and could not be read directly during this verification); historical Parma programme brochure (2021/22) https://www.unipr.it/sites/default/files/albo_pretorio/allegati/15-04-2021/lm_food_sciences_for_innovation_and_authenticity_eng.pdf ; AlmaLaurea course records https://www2.almalaurea.it/cgi-asp/lau/corsi/dettaglioCorso.aspx?ID=121926&lang=en&popup=1 and the transparency statistics https://statistiche.almalaurea.it/universita/statistiche/trasparenza?CODICIONE=0210107307100001 .
KEY PEOPLE, from the programme page and the signed ranking list: Degree Course Director and Admission Committee President Prof. Matteo Mario Scampicchio; Admission Committee Members Prof. Youry Pii and Dr. Ksenia Morozova; Student Representative in the Course Council Elena Greco. Faculty Dean Prof. Marco Gobbetti also teaches on the programme.
Call for applications link note: There is NO separate 'call for applications', 'bando' or 'manifesto degli studi' published for the 2026/27 cycle. The role of the official call is played jointly by two documents:
(1) THE ADMISSION-INFORMATION PDF, https://www.unibz.it/assets/CoursesPDF/master-in-food-sciences-for-innovation-and-authenticity_admission-information_en_GB.pdf (version-pinned on the programme page as ?v=1784820281), which carries the session calendar, the quotas, the entry requirements with the full scientific-sector list, the language requirements, the scoring rule, the document list, the fee structure and the credential-recognition tiers.
(2) THE SIGNED RANKING-LIST DECREE for 2026/27 Early Bird, which restates the admission criteria in full, adds the confirmation-and-enrolment rules and the non-EU information section, carries the Admission Committee's digital signatures (President Prof. Matteo Mario Scampicchio; Members Prof. Youry Pii, Dr. Ksenia Morozova) and the 60-day appeal notice to the Bozen-Bolzano Administrative Court. This is the document with formal administrative force.
HISTORICAL CALL-EQUIVALENT DOCUMENT, useful as a baseline for how much the programme has changed: the University of Parma's 2021/22 programme brochure, https://www.unipr.it/sites/default/files/albo_pretorio/allegati/15-04-2021/lm_food_sciences_for_innovation_and_authenticity_eng.pdf (verified HTTP 200, 2 pages, 'Edizione marzo 2021'), published on Parma's albo pretorio. It records five second-year profiles including Food Packaging at TUM, a different unibz profile ('Applied Engineering and Genetics'), 35 EU + 5 non-EU places, a different first-year course list, and the three named course referents of the time (Prof. Marco Gobbetti at unibz, Prof. Furio Brighenti and Prof. Erasmo Neviani at Parma).
GENERAL APPLICANT ENTRY POINTS: https://www.unibz.it/en/applicants/studying-at-unibz ; international degree-seeking applicants https://www.unibz.it/en/applicants/international/international-degree-seeking-applicants ; non-EU citizens living abroad https://www.unibz.it/en/applicants/international/international-degree-seeking-applicants/degree-seeking-non-eu-citizens-living-abroad ; ranking-lists index https://www.unibz.it/en/applicants/ranking-lists ; recognised language certificates (Resolution 16/2026) https://www.unibz.it/assets/Documents/Languages/unibz-recognised-language-certificates-v2.pdf ; fees https://guide.unibz.it/en/study-career/general-information/fees/ ; application portal https://aws.unibz.it/exup .
[uncertain] THE MOST IMPORTANT MISSING DOCUMENT is the inter-university convention (convenzione) between unibz, the University of Udine and the University of Parma that establishes the joint degree, together with the cooperation agreements with University College Cork and the Technical University of Munich. None of these is published on any of the three universities' public sites. That convention would answer the open questions on where the second year is physically taken, how profile places (especially the 5 UCC places) are allocated, how the joint diploma is issued, and whether partner-university fees or enrolment obligations arise. It is worth requesting from the Faculty Secretariat (agriculture@unibz.it). A Rector's decree formally opening the 2026/27 admission procedure was also not locatable in English.
Tuition and fees link note: EUR 1,200 PER YEAR, in two instalments. Admission-information PDF, verbatim: 'Fees amount to € 1200. 1st instalment (€ 600): includes the revenue stamp of € 16. 2nd instalment (€ 600): must be paid by March of the following year. Delayed payment of the second instalment will result in a fine being levied. If you have not paid the tuition fees, you will be unable to take exams and will not be able to transfer to other universities or other study programmes. If you drop out of a programme, interrupt your studies or are excluded from studies, you are not entitled to reimbursement of the fees.' The brochure 'At a Glance' box states 'Tuition fees: ca. € 1200 per year'. Over the two-year degree the total is therefore approximately EUR 2,400.
THE FIRST INSTALMENT DOUBLES AS THE PLACE-SECURING PAYMENT. For 2026/27 Early Bird it had to be paid by 05/06/2026 at noon, and for the Late round by 11/09/2026 at noon. Missing it forfeits the place to the next person on the ranking list.
EXEMPTIONS, verbatim: 'Exemption from the tuition fees is granted to: Students with a disability recognized under article 3, paragraph 1, of Law No 104/1992, or with a disability up to or exceeding 66%: the disability certificate, issued by the health authorities, must be handed in at the beginning of the academic year. Foreign students who have been granted a scholarship from the Italian government.' And: 'Students who benefit from a scholarship granted by the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano are entitled to receive a refund of the tuition fees.'
REFUND POSITION: 'Paying university fees does not confer student status, which is only obtained by enrolling. If you pay but do not enrol, you are not entitled to a refund, except for non-EU applicants living abroad who do not obtain the necessary documents for enrolment from the Italian authorities in their country.' This last exception is the safety net for a Turkish applicant who pays, then fails to obtain a visa.
CONTEXT — THIS IS CHEAP AND HAS GOT CHEAPER. EUR 1,200 is a flat fee unrelated to income, nationality or ISEE, which is unusual in the Italian system and strongly favourable to international students, who at most Italian state universities pay income-assessed fees that can be far higher without an ISEE-parificato. It is also lower than it used to be: AlmaLaurea records an annual cost of EUR 1,350 for the 2024/25 cohort and EUR 1,200 for 2025/26, and the 2019/20-era figure for the sister programme EMMA was EUR 1,347.50.
OFFICIAL FEE PAGES: https://guide.unibz.it/en/study-career/general-information/fees/ (unibz Study Guide, Tuition Fees).
[uncertain] PART-TIME FEES. unibz's part-time enrolment scheme, which this programme's page advertises, is described in secondary summaries of the Study Guide as halving the annual tuition while roughly halving the annual credit load and extending a master to four years, with the option chosen in October after enrolment rather than at application. The exact part-time fee for this programme in 2026/27 was not confirmed on a primary unibz page during this verification and should be checked in the Study Guide before relying on it. Also not verified: the exact amount of the late-payment fine on the second instalment, which the PDF mentions without quantifying.
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“IDENTITY AND STRUCTURE
— Brochure 'At a Glance': 'Degree class: LM-70 / ECTS credits: 120 / Duration of the course: 2 years / Courses will be taught in English / Places available: 40 EU + 8 non-EU / Campus: Bozen-Bolzano / Tuition fees: ca. € 1200 per year'.
— Programme page strapline: 'This two-year master provides you with sound knowledge of current and future challenges in food sciences, combining innovation and authenticity, and offering you the opportunity to interact closely with the food industry. The programme is a joint initiative with the Universities of Parma and Udine, known worldwide for their excellence in higher education in the field of food sciences.'
— University of Udine, verbatim Italian: 'Il corso di laurea magistrale inter-ateneo, internazionale in Food Sciences for Innovation and Authenticity è istituito tra la Libera Università di Bolzano (sede amministrativa), e le Università degli Studi di Udine e Parma con rilascio del titolo congiunto.'
— University of Parma 2021/22 brochure: 'The international Second Cycle Degree Course in Food Sciences for Innovation and Authenticity is offered by tree [sic] joint Italian institutions (Free University of Bozen/Bolzano - administrative head, University of Parma and University of Udine) in cooperation with the University College Cork, Cork, Ireland and the Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.'
— Programme page run-confirmation flag: 'Courses will definetely be starting' [sic].
— Brochure, profiles: 'After the first year, you can choose among four different profiles: Innovation and Authenticity of Wines (offered at unibz); Food Quality and Management (offered at University of Udine); Nutrition Sciences (offered at University of Parma); Food Chemistry (offered at University College of Cork, Ireland).'
— Brochure, labs: 'The teaching laboratories of this master offer hands-on training in food production, analysis, and quality assessment. Located at NOI Techpark, they feature facilities for food processing, sensory evaluation, and chemical, physical, and microbiological analysis.'
— Brochure, Cork path and exchanges: 'this master offers one dedicated path with the University College Cork, Ireland (5 available places with possible grants from local food companies) and two Erasmus programmes with two globally leading universities in food sciences, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Wageningen University & Research (WUR).'
— unibz faculty page (Italian), professional register: 'Dal 2020 la Libera Università di Bolzano è sede degli esami di Stato per l'abilitazione all'esercizio della professione di Tecnologo alimentare.'
— Parma 2021/22 brochure, professional register: 'A professional practice exam called "esame di stato" in Italy must be passed to enroll in the Food Technologists professional register.'
DEADLINES AND QUOTAS
— 'Early Bird Application — Application: 02/03 - 28/04/2026 (by noon local time)'.
— 'Late Application (only for EU citizens) — Application: 28/05 - 20/08/2026 (by noon local time)'.
— 'Additional Application Session (only for EU citizens) — The Faculty can open additional application sessions for single study programmes in August and in September if there are available places.'
— 'Non-EU-Citizens (living outside of Italy) — Only one application period is offered. After the deadline it is not possible to apply anymore. Application fee: € 50.'
— 'Available places — EU citizens and citizens given parity of treatment: Early Bird Application: 35; Late Application: 5. Non-EU citizens (living abroad): Early Bird Application: 8.'
— 'For EU citizens and citizens given parity of treatment only: any remaining places of the early bird application, will be offered in the late application.'
— Ranking list: 'select the degree course in the Application portal and pay with one of the indicated payment methods to confirm the study place within 5 June 2026, 12 (midday). The first instalment of tuition fees amounts to € 600.00.'
— Ranking list: 'from 10 July until 13 October 2026, 12 (midday), enrol online in the Application portal.'
— Ranking list: 'Applicants from rank 9 are on the waiting list and will only be able to join the programme if the admitted people do not secure their admission by the deadline. Those on the waiting list will be contacted by e-mail as of 8 June 2026 in case a spot opens up.'
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS AND SCORING
— 'In order to gain admission to this programme you need to possess an adequate knowledge of the basic disciplines of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology and fundamental knowledge of the subjects preparatory to the fundamental disciplines of this degree class.'
— 'Or the previous career must have covered at least 30 ECTS credits in one or more of the following scientific sectors'.
— 'The Admission Committee can assign up to a max. of 95 points based on the: final bachelor grade expressed out of 30 (for applicants already graduated); weighted grade average expressed out of 30 (for applicants not graduated yet). The Admission Committee will assign 2 points to candidates who graduated with honors (cum laude). Candidates who possess at least a C1 certificate in the official teaching language of the course (English) will be assigned 3 points. Minimum score for admission is 55/95 points.'
— 'If scores are equal, applicants who have already graduated take precedence over applicants who have not graduated yet. In the event of further equal score, the younger applicant will be given priority (art. 3 L. 127/1997).'
— Ranking list: 'the two programmes must not belong to the same class, e.g., LM-70/LM-70 and must differ for at least 2/3 of the course contents'.
— 'In the application portal, you must upload: 1. Qualification... 2. Excel file: Please use the file available in the application portal. 3. English language certifications (at least of level B2)'.
— 'For qualifications obtained abroad, also: scale of grades awarded by the university of provenance (with a minimum final grade to obtain the qualification and a maximum final grade achievable).'
LANGUAGE
— 'The official teaching language is English. Therefore, the following language requirements apply, otherwise you will be excluded from the admission procedure: Entry level (to gain admission) English: B2.'
— 'the main teaching language in your final high school year, if English (recognised as C1)' and 'a bachelor or master degree in English (recognised as C1)'.
— Ranking list, exclusion heading: 'The following persons do not meet the language requirements for admission and are therefore excluded from the admission procedure. They may re-apply in the second session.' (Eight applicant IDs follow.)
— Resolution 16/2026: 'International language certificates must not be older than five years before the date of their submission.' 'If no overall result and/or level is stated on the certificate, the lowest level reached in one of the subskills is decisive for determining the level.' 'Certificates issued by exam boards and obtained by taking an online exam ("home edition") are not recognised, except for those explicitly indicated in the list.' 'DAAD certificates are not recognised.'
FEES, VISA AND RECOGNITION
— 'Fees amount to € 1200. 1st instalment (€ 600): includes the revenue stamp of € 16. 2nd instalment (€ 600): must be paid by March of the following year.'
— 'Students who benefit from a scholarship granted by the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano are entitled to receive a refund of the tuition fees.'
— 'The application on Universitaly is mandatory, otherwise you will not be allowed to enrol. On Universitaly you can apply for one study programme only.'
— Ranking list: 'Please note that preliminary admission by unibz does not guarantee obtaining a visa, the issuing of which is the exclusive responsibility of embassies and consulates.'
— unibz non-EU page: living costs 'at least € 800 per month'; master total 'at least € 24,000'; work 'part-time for no more than 20 hours a week and no more than 1,040 hours per year'; application fee '50€. The fee is an administration fee and is non-refundable.'
— 'within 8 working days of your arrival in Italy, you must have applied for the residence permit'.
— Parity of treatment: 'A permit to stay for study reasons or a visa for tourism is not valid.' 'Please note that if you do not upload the permit in the application portal, you will be automatically considered a non-EU citizen living abroad.'
— 'Non-EU students can apply for a study grant only if they have a long-time residence permit or after they have had their residence in South Tyrol for at least one year without interruption.'
OUTCOMES
— AlmaLaurea graduate data: 100% employment one year after graduation, average net monthly salary EUR 1,447; 92.9% employment at three years, EUR 2,049; 90.9% completely or mostly satisfied; 90.9% would enrol on the same course again. Graduate cohorts: 2020 — 9; 2022 — 42; 2024 — 24; 2025 — 22.”
