University of Milan-Bicocca
Milan, Italy — www.unimib.it
- QS Ranking
- #301
- Founded
- 1998
- Type
- Public Research University
- Students
- 37,000+
- Acceptance Rate
- ~50%
- Founded
- 1998 — Italy's youngest top-300 global university; built on former Pirelli industrial site
- QS Rank
- #301–350 (2025)
- Pirelli HangarBicocca
- Europe's largest contemporary art space — on campus, showing large-scale installations
- Physics
- CERN collaborations, MAGIC telescope, gravitational waves (LIGO-Virgo) — Italy's rising physics programme
Overview
The University of Milan-Bicocca (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, UniMiB), founded in 1998 as a new university carved from the historic Statale di Milano, is one of Italy's most innovative and fastest-growing universities, ranked #301–350 in QS 2025 and consistently rising. UniMiB occupies the Bicocca district of northern Milan — a former Pirelli rubber industrial complex (one of Italy's most famous and historic industrial brands — the Pirelli Tower, 1956, was Italy's first skyscraper and a symbol of Milan's postwar economic miracle) transformed into one of Europe's most ambitious urban university campuses, with the Pirelli HangarBicocca (Europe's largest contemporary art space, repurposed from a locomotive maintenance shed) as its cultural centrepiece. UniMiB's urban regeneration story — turning a polluted, decommissioned industrial district into a thriving academic and creative quarter — is one of Italy's great post-industrial success stories, and the Bicocca district is now one of Milan's most dynamic neighbourhoods. UniMiB's particular strengths are in the natural sciences (physics, chemistry, statistics), medicine (Ospedale San Gerardo di Monza teaching hospital, one of Lombardy's largest), and social sciences.
Admission Process
Apply via UNIMIB online portal (en.unimib.it). Many science and medicine programmes require TOLC tests. Non-EU students via Universitaly portal. English-medium master's programmes: direct application. IELTS 6.5+ or TOEFL 85+. Italian-medium programmes: B2 Italian. Deadlines: February–July.
Programs at University of Milan-Bicocca
- MSc Computer Science (Master's) — 2,000 EUR/year
- Master of Business Administration (Master's) — 3,000 EUR/year
- MSc Data Science & AI (Master's) — 5,000 EUR/year
- Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) (Bachelor's) — 8,000 EUR/year
- Master of Science in Engineering (Master's) — 2,000 EUR/year
- PhD in Natural Sciences (PhD) — 3,000 EUR/year
- BSc Computer Science (Bachelor's) — 2,000 EUR/year
- BSc Business Administration (Bachelor's) — 3,000 EUR/year
- BSc Economics (Bachelor's) — 4,000 EUR/year
- BA International Relations (Bachelor's) — 6,000 EUR/year
- BSc Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's) — 9,000 EUR/year
- BSc Civil Engineering (Bachelor's) — 2,000 EUR/year
- BSc Electrical Engineering (Bachelor's) — 3,000 EUR/year
- Executive MBA (MBA) — 18,003 EUR/year
- MA Education (Master's) — 3,287 EUR/year