MASTER PROGRAMME STUDY PLANS
Students of the Master Programme in Cybersecurity are required to have a study plan (āpercorso formativoā) in force in order to book and take exams.
WHAT IS A STUDY PLAN?
A study plan completely defines the set of courses that a student plans to attend and to clear during their first and second year. Without an approved study plan, students cannot book or take any exam.
Hence, students of the Master Programme in Cybersecurity are requested to submit for approval their own study plans at the beginning of their first year. A study plan already in force can be revised by submitting for approval a new plan which includes all courses already cleared.
WHEN CAN A STUDY PLAN BE SUBMITTED OR REVISED?
Students can submit their study plans at most once per year, during the following time window:
From September 15 to December 31 of each year.
Study plans still pending evaluation cannot be changed. For this reason, we warmly recommend students to pay great attention when submitting their study plans, and to do so only when they have clear ideas about which courses to attend (at the very least in their next year).
HOW A STUDY PLAN IS SUBMITTED?
Study plans must be submitted using the online study plan submission system called āPercorsi Formativiā reachable from within Infostud.
WHEN AND HOW IS A STUDY PLAN EVALUATED AND APPROVED?
The study plan submission system prevents the submission of most (but not all) study plans violating the rules. Plans successfully submitted via the system are evaluated and approved by the study plan evaluation committee.
Study plans which satisfy all the rules, envision a proper balance of the number of exams to be cleared in the first and second year, and contain only courses offered within the Master Programme in Cybersecurity will be approved automatically. Study plans envisioning a not even allocation of the courses between the two years, and those plans envisioning courses from other Sapienza programmes in section "Group Dā, are subject to an evaluation by the committee, which will decide whether to accept them or reject them by performing additional checks on the student curriculum to ensure their feasibility and coherence, and to avoid abnormal situations.
WHEN DOES AN APPROVED STUDY PLAN COME INTO FORCE?
Study plans come into force from the academic year in which they have been submitted and will be in force until a new replacement study plan is submitted and approved.
Please note that although academic years start in September, their first exam session starts in January of the following year. This means that any exam session held from September to December belongs to the previous academic year and can be used by students only to clear exams of courses that belong to their study plans already approved in the previous academic year.
WHAT HAPPENS IF A STUDY PLAN IS REJECTED?
If a study plan is rejected, the student will be immediately contacted by a member of the evaluation committee to give recommendations, fix the problems, and find an agreement on a new study plan, which will be submitted and approved by the committee.
HOW DO STUDY PLANS AFFECT THE POSSIBILITY OF BOOKING OR CLEARING EXAMS?
The Infostud system forbids students to book and clear an exam not included in their study plan currently in force. The consequence of the above rule is that students with no study plan in force (because they never submitted one for approval) cannot book or take any exam.
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS
The study plans evaluation committee can be contacted via email: venturi@di.uniroma1.it. The committee kindly invites students to avoid asking questions whose answers are already in the text above. The committee will do their best to answer within a week.