Assessment method: ORAL exam or WRITTEN exam, according to the student's choice as specified as follows.

Characteristics of the ORAL exam.
- The oral exam can be sustained by the student of the cohort on the occasion of every exam to which he/she can legitimately enroll.
- The oral exam will be in the form of questions that the examiner will ask to the candidate.
- The candidate will be marked according to the amount and accuracy of the knowledge that he/she is expected to have learned, on his/her ability to expound on it and on his/her ability to critically examine what has been treated.
- Marks will be given out of thirty.
- Incoming students in international mobility can take the oral exam in English.

Characteristics of the WRITTEN test.
- The written test can be chosen by the cohort student in a few dates only, which will be communicated separately.
- The written test concerns the part of the programme that is common to attending and non-attending students.
- The candidate will be marked according to his/her ability to understand the possibile answers and to choose the correct ones; the test is arranged in order to evaluate the precision and accuracy of the knowledge of the student and his/her capability to examine critically what he/she has learned.
- Marks will be given out of thirty.

If the University provides for it, exams will take place, in whole or in part, online.