Product Design
Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Application deadline
Set by this cycle’s call
The date appears here, with its link, once a person has opened that call.
English requirement
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Not yet verified for this degree.
Politecnico di Milano, official programme pagechecked
- LevelBachelor's degreeLaurea Triennale
- SubjectArchitecture and design
- Taught inTaught in Italian
- Length3 years
- DeliveryOn campus
- StartsSeptember
- AdmissionRestricted, entrance testThere is an entrance test
- Minimum markNo minimum stated
The money
What you pay, and what you must prove you have.
Two different things, kept apart on purpose: a bill you pay, and a balance a visa officer needs to see that never gets spent.
What you pay
Tuition, per year
€3,943.04
about PKR 1,267,000
Why this figure, and not a lower one
Italian state fees usually scale with an assessed household indicator. Where the call states one figure it appears above; where it states a scale, this page says so rather than averaging it.
Politecnico di Milano does not price degrees individually. One all inclusive contribution covers any programme and is scaled by ISEE, the Italian measure of household income and assets, from 157.04 euro at the bottom of the scale to 3,943.04 euro at the top. The figure here is the top, because the university states that an international student in the reserved non EU category, admitted with a first level qualification obtained abroad and holding no scholarship, pays the maximum whatever ISEE says.
To be considered, once
Not yet read from the call
Paid to the university when you submit. Non-refundable, and separate from anything the visa itself costs.
What you must prove you have
Funds you must show, per year
€10,179.85
Health cover, minimum
€30,000
How these two are decided
Funds you must show: in your own account, or evidenced by a sponsor or an award. Cash is refused.
Health cover: emergency treatment and repatriation, across the Schengen area, for as long as the visa lasts.
Universitaly (MUR)checked
Who may hold the money, and the refusal of cash, are the embassy’s own rules for a study visa rather than the university’s.
Embassy of Italy, Islamabadchecked
Rent, food and travel are in none of the figures above. What a month actually costs in Italy.
Amounts are in euro, as published. €1 = PKR 321.43, 30 August 2026.
Entry requirements
What this call asks of you.
The admission model first, because it is the one that closes a degree for a year. Everything below it is quoted from the university's call for applications for this cycle, in its order.
How it admits
Restricted, entrance test
accesso programmato
The university's own wording
“Politecnico di Milano, Admission to Laurea programmes, Design, academic year 2026/2027: "Requirements for Admission to Bachelor of Science programmes of Design are specified below: an entrance test; language skills" and "You can enter by taking the TOLD (Test del Design). If you are interested in an Italian language course, you must take the TOLD test in Italian." Available places, academic year 2026/2027: "Design del Prodotto Industriale (Milano Bovisa campus) 300 places (280 places for Italian students, Communitary nationals and foreign nationals treated as equivalent to Community nationals + 20 places for extra UE students)".”
Entrance tests
The university's own test
- Entry requirementsNot yet read
- The English ruleNot yet read
- Documents to uploadNot yet read
- Accepted English proofsNot yet read
These come from this degree’s own call for applications. A person has not opened it yet, and nothing here is copied from another degree at the same university.
Before any of it counts
Start the legalisation chain first
A degree awarded outside Europe has to be attested and legalised before an Italian university reads it. That chain is decided by the country you apply from, and no office on it publishes a turnaround.
Funding this programme lists
5 routes this call names.
Each has its own page with the amount, the ceilings and the state of its call today.
- Closed for this cycleRegional right-to-study grant
Bando di concorso per l'assegnazione dei benefici per il diritto allo studio (DSU), a.a. 2026/2027, Politecnico di Milano
Regione LombardiaBachelor's degree, Master's degree, PhD, Single-cycle degreeAny subject
€5,028 to €7,419cash, per academic year
Lombardy's DSU grant for 2026/2027 pays a student living away from home 5,028 to 7,419 euro in cash, adds a free meal a day and carries exemption from Politecnico tuition and contributions. You have to be under both ceilings, an ISEE of 26,887.93 euro and an ISPE of 58,452.06 euro, and the application goes to Politecnico di Milano rather than to the region, by 12:00 Italian time on 5 August 2026 for a first year student.
Pays for tuition, living costs, housing and meals
- Income ceiling applies
- One thing to check
Closed ·
- Closed for this cycleUniversity award
Merit Based International Scholarships: Bronze Piacenza Campus Scholarships
Politecnico di MilanoMaster's degreeAny subject
€2,500cash, gross, per academic year, on top of a full tuition fee waiver
Ten awards of €2,500 gross plus a full tuition fee waiver, for international students entering the first year of Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics for Manufacturing) taught in English at the Piacenza campus. It is the smallest cash amount in the Merit call and it is tied to that single programme.
Pays for tuition and living costs
- One thing to check
Closed ·
- Closed for this cycleUniversity award
Merit Based International Scholarships: Gold Piacenza Campus Scholarships
Politecnico di MilanoMaster's degreeAny subject
€5,000cash, gross, per academic year, on top of a full tuition fee waiver
Sixteen awards of €5,000 gross a year plus a full tuition fee waiver, for international students entering the first year of Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design or Energy Engineering (Renewables and Environmental Sustainability RES) taught in English at the Piacenza campus. It is tied to those two programmes only, and you have to have applied for admission inside the Early Bird window to be eligible at all.
Pays for tuition and living costs
- One thing to check
Closed ·
2 more routes this call names
- Closed for this cycleUniversity award
Merit Based International Scholarships: Platinum and Gold Scholarships, Milan
Politecnico di MilanoMaster's degreeAny subject
€8,000 to €10,000cash, gross, per academic year, on top of a full tuition fee waiver
Politecnico di Milano waives the whole tuition fee and adds a gross cash allowance of €10,000 a year on 10 Platinum awards or €8,000 a year on 18 Gold awards, for international students entering the first year of a Master of Science taught in English at Milano Leonardo or Milano Bovisa. Only students who submitted their admission application and paid the application fee during the Early Bird window are eligible at all, which for 2026/2027 meant applying between 1 October and 1 December 2025.
Pays for tuition and living costs
- One thing to check
Closed ·
- Closed for this cycleTuition waiver
Merit Based International Scholarships: Silver Cremona, Lecco, Mantova, Piacenza Campuses Scholarships
Politecnico di MilanoMaster's degreeAny subject
No amount published for this cycle
Ten awards that exempt you from tuition fees for the whole academic year, for international students entering the first year of any Master of Science taught in English at the Cremona, Lecco, Mantova or Piacenza campuses. There is no cash: Silver is a waiver and nothing else, so you still fund your own living costs.
Pays for tuition
- One thing to check
Closed ·
The degree
About this degree.
A three year Laurea in Italian at the Milano Bovisa campus that prepares designers to conceive and develop tangible industrial products, from concept through to executive definition. It suits students who want to combine drawing, modelling and materials knowledge with the historical, humanistic and managerial side of design culture.
The Bachelor's Degree Programme in Industrial Product Design prepares designers capable of conceiving and developing tangible, innovative products that respond to the needs of people, businesses, and contemporary production and social contexts. Designing a product means integrating functional, technical, aesthetic-formal, and communicative aspects to transform an idea into a feasible design solution. The programme provides a solid foundation in design disciplines, both from a theoretical and an operational perspective, equipping students with the methodology needed to address every stage of product development, from concept to executive definition.
The university's full description
The curriculum combines historical-critical, humanistic, scientific, and technological disciplines with tools for the physical and digital representation and modelling of products, ranging from graphic design and drawing to knowledge of materials, industrial processes, production constraints, and the role of AI in design practice. The degree prepares graduates to contribute to technical and design activities across product development, production, communication, and distribution, leading to employment in professional studios, companies, and manufacturing contexts in roles such as designer and product development technician.
By the end of the course of study, students will have acquired knowledge of the core methodological foundations required to work competently across all executive stages of industrial product design; the historical and critical disciplines related to design culture and the evolution of products; the humanities disciplines necessary for interpreting the social and cultural contexts into which designed products are introduced, ranging from semiotics to aesthetics, and from psychology to sociology.
Students also acquire the tools and techniques related to the morphological, material, and functional representation of products, from freehand drawing to technical drawing and digital representation, from photography to the three-dimensional production of study models and product prototypes; techniques for the creation of digital images, the interpretation of visual languages, and the understanding of perceptual mechanisms; the scientific and technological competencies related to materials, their chemical-physical, performance, structural, and functional characteristics, the related transformation technologies, industrial manufacturing processes, and production constraints; and the economic and managerial aspects related to business contexts and markets, together with the economic feasibility analysis of products and the elements that define business coherence within design-driven innovation processes.
Within the study programme, it is possible to activate specific thematic tracks focusing on areas that represent new frontiers in the development of design professions or strategic sectors for the growth of the national economy.
Where it leads
As the university states it on its own page. Not a placement rate and not a promise.
- Designer and product development technician in professional studios, companies and manufacturing contexts
- Developing industrial products for companies and professionals, from the initial idea through development to production and distribution in the marketplace
- Assisting in research activities and in the development of concepts
- Working in collaboration with Research and Development departments and specialists during the product development phases
- Working with production technicians and experts
- Interacting with companies' Marketing and Sales departments to identify market needs upstream in the process
- Continuing to master's degree programmes such as Integrated Product Design, Design & Engineering, and Product-Service System Design
One programme, one university, once a year.
That is what Universitaly allows. Three questions tell you where you stand before you spend that choice: the degree level, what the visa wants in the bank, and how much calendar is left.
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The shortlist is a conversation
An advisor reads your documents against what this call asks for and tells you whether the file will clear, and if it will not, what to fix.
Tuition a year€3,943.04
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