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To apply for the MSc program in Management Engineering, prospective students must meet specific admission requirements and they have to undergo a interview as established by the rules and regulations of the MSc program.

ONLY FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: The procedures, important deadlines, VISA application, and UNIPA Student Portal Registration are described in the UNIPA "International Student Enrolment" section.

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For a comprehensive overview of all contributions, please consult the regulation at this LINK.

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To be admitted to the Master's Degree Course in Management Engineering of the University of Palermo, it is necessary to own a Bachelor Degree in Engineering (any type of specialization) from a University recognized as suitable by the University of Palermo.

Furthermore, basic knowledge of the following areas of knowledge is required:

• Economics
• Statistics
• Production technologies
• Operations and Production Management

Details about the areas of knowledge are described in the document linked HERE (for Italian students) and HERE (for International students).

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The applicant will only be admitted if he/she gets a positive evaluation from the Admission Committee through an interview.

The interview aims at verifying that the applicant possesses the basic knowledge requirements of the MSc in Management Engineering. To this purpose, during the interview the applicant may be asked basic concepts of Economics, Statistics, Operations and Production Management, Production Technology.

For each area of knowledge, here the topics of interest: 

• Fundamentals of Economics: basics of finance (interest rate, discount rate, cash-flow, Return On Investment, Net Present Value), basics of microeconomics (demand, supply, elasticity, theory of consumer behavior, production decisions and economic profit, economy of scale, monopoly, oligopoly, perfect competition), basics of cost accounting (variable cost, fixed cost, revenue, profit).
• Fundamentals of Statistics: basics of probability (mean, standard deviation, distributions, random variables), basics of statistical inference (confidence interval, hypothesis testing, linear regression).
• Fundamentals of Operations and Production Management: basics of Inventory management, Economic Order Quantity, basics of Operations and Production Planning.
• Fundamentals of Production Technology: what is Manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing, quality management, fundamentals of mechanical behavior of materials, basics Bulk Deformation Processes, basics Sheet-Metal Forming Processes, basics of machining and machine tools.

These are very popular foundation topics. Books, articles, websites, presentations, videos are freely available on internet.

The applicant can find some sample learning material for preparing to the interview by clicking HERE. To access the link, the student must be registered in the UNIPA student portal.

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The interviews for the Admission to the MSc Program in Management Engineering will take place online MS TEAMS platform. The interview schedule and the link to the platform will be sent to the applicant after being pre-accepted.

The applicant needs to show her/his passport during the interview (or a copy of it).