Master in Management Engineering

The Master in Management Engineering is a 2-year course entirely taught in English. The program description and practical information are available in the student guide, which is intended for students enrolled in the 2023-24 academic year. The application for admission can be submitted according to the procedure described on the Master's Degree website.

Foreign students who intend to enroll in the Master's Degree Course in Management Engineering must be aware that:

Enrollment requires a three-year degree in Engineering and a certificate of knowledge of the English language at least at level B2 issued by the University Language Center of the University of Florence.

Teaching activities, including project work, will take place entirely in person and it will not be possible to take courses and exams remotely. However, for some subjects, innovative teaching activities carried out in hybrid methods, such as the flipped classroom, may be adopted.

Training objectives

The Master's Degree Course in Management Engineering trains high-level professional figures with mastery of statistical, analytical, and numerical modeling methods, and of the technical-scientific, organizational and economic contents typical of Management Engineering.

The level of in-depth study of the topics covered during the training course characterizes the Master's graduate with a high technical-cultural preparation in the various management fields of engineering. He has the awareness and ability to assume responsibility for a variety of roles and professional figures, today extremely sought after by all large and medium-sized companies, but is often also valued in smaller companies in which he can quickly assume top roles.

The training activities offered in the master's degree course have been designed to create a professional figure capable of operating at the center of change and digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, to contribute with their skills to the introduction of new innovative solutions and systems production, to support the development of new business models and digital innovation.

The management engineer trained at the University of Florence has a predominantly industrial approach but can also find employment in service companies.

All required courses are taught in English. The use of English by teachers and students in teaching activities

promotes the development of a vocabulary that allows master's graduates to operate in the context of the global economy, as required by the companies in which they typically find employment.

The course of study is organized into two curricula. The first, called "Smart Industry", is based entirely on the courses provided at the University of Florence. The second, called "International", is based on an international structured mobility agreement signed with the HSLU of Lucerne and provides for at least one semester of study abroad (the first semester of the second year) and the award of a double degree in engineering, the Italian one and the Swiss one.

Access to the international curriculum requires participation in a specific call.

The two curricula overlap in the first year.

For both curricula, the compulsory courses are almost all in the areas of operations management, industrial plant engineering, design and management of production processes and production systems, automation, as well as economics and business organization, innovation, and project management. Furthermore, in the first year, basic knowledge is strengthened with the in-depth study of operational research and statistics for experiments and forecasts.

The second year differentiates the two curricula.

The Smart Industry curriculum, in addition to some courses in the areas mentioned above, it includes an internship/internship activity and the writing of a thesis. The thesis must be based on an industrial project and/or a research activity and must have originality.

In the international curriculum, however, the second year includes courses to be selected from the training offer of the HSLU of Lucerne, a specialization project, and a thesis activity in co-supervision with a teacher from each of the two universities. The teaching activities are programmed in blended mode up to a maximum of 1/3 of the ECTS and may include innovative teaching methods such as the "flipped classroom".

The University of Florence dates back to the Studium Generale set up by the Florentine Republic in 1321. It has had very famous scholars (Galileo Galilei) and professors as well as the two most recent Italian Prime Ministers (Giuseppe Conte and Mario Draghi). Only in 1923 however, the University acquired its actual name and was transformed into a modern comprehensive university, with its 21 Departments and 10 Schools.

The Unifi offers 127 Bachelor's Degrees 57 Masters's Degrees, 9 Long-cycle degrees, 24 PhD Programs and over 50 specialization schools. Amongst those programmes, over 40 are international: 10 taught in English and 31 with double or joint degrees. Within most degree programs, courses in English are offered.

Unifi is one of the most popular Universities for Erasmus students (over 900 incoming a year) and is part of EUniWell, a European Universities Alliance. The network has identified four key areas for research and teaching, closely linked to UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The University of Florence is one of the most important Italian public universities and has a strong international vocation. It fosters cooperation with academic and research institutions all over the world and welcomes foreign teaching staff, researchers and students to promote cultural and scientific internationalization. To this end, through its Departments and Schools, the University promotes the hospitality of highly qualified guests from all over the world.

Moreover, it traditionally devotes particular attention to the development of collaborative relationships with foreign universities and to the process of internationalization, which has become a strategic and dominant aspect of the life of the university in research, teaching, the organization of study programmes, mobility of teachers, researchers and students.

For these reasons, the University of Florence qualifies itself as one of the privileged destinations for international guests.

Welcome Service

The Welcome Service helps international students, PhD students, fellows, researchers and professors hosted by the University of Florence within specific European or International projects to find suitable accommodation in town.

The Welcome Service can book the guests in the university residences and other local accommodation facilities and provides information on online platforms for finding accommodation.

Studying in Florence

One hundred and forty-six degree courses (first and second level and single-cycle) of which 15 are in English, organised into 10 Schools, a total population of around fifty-one thousand enrolled, a quarter of whom come from outside the region. The University of Florence is a large university, with a very wide range of courses spanning all subject areas. There are over nine thousand graduates every year in Florence. Moreover, the percentage of Florentine graduates in work one year after graduating is above the national average, according to Almalaurea data.