The School
The Master Program in Business Engineering is offered within the Business School of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. It is a school with a short but intense history. Created in 1990 with the commencement of the “Laurea” Course in Management Engineering, it developed in 1993 with the institution of the PhD Program, one of the three then existing in the sector in Italy, and in 1998 received the new impulse of the Master Program. Very active also in research, enjoying plentiful international connections, it has received much scientific recognition in Italy and abroad.
The School brings to the Master Program more than thirty people between teachers and tutors, and a staff that ensures the smooth operation of the didactic organization. The School is not only University: there is the fundamental role of the Group of Excellence that supports the initiative, consisting of companies and organizations, of varying size, but all important for their role in production, innovation and society. People who have, wholly or partly, received from the School their managerial education and who constitute a vital resource, as well as being the image of the School itself, also round out the Master Program. For this reason great care is taken in keeping alive the ties, professional and of friendship.
The ambition of the School is not only to increase the students’ competencies, but also to contribute to the development of their problem-solving capacities. This involves exercising creativity, creating value, guiding a group of people (a workgroup, staff, employees, etc.) and obtaining results without recourse to hierarchy (less and less defined in terms of authority relationships). Above all, what characterizes the School is the strong commitment in passing on to students the enthusiasm and pride of working at the cutting edge of professional knowledge and practice.
The campus
Tor Vergata, founded in 1980, is one of the three public Universities in Rome. The School of Business Engineering (one of the first business schools in Italy to operate within the framework of engineering studies) was established in 1991, and since then has earned a reputation for quality. Admission is limited and strongly selective. Tor Vergata has, altogether, 40,000 students; the Engineering Faculty 6,500; the School of Business Engineering, in the various programs, about 600 undergraduates, 400 graduates, 120 post graduate students.
Master Level II
Two types of Master programs are currently offered by the public university system in Italy. The first type (Level I) requires for admission a university degree based on a three-year course of study (as, for example, a "bachelor" or a "laurea"). The second type (Level II) requires a five-year degree, such as a "laurea magistrale", or a bachelor plus a Level I Master degree. Level II Master programs offer usually a more advanced learning experience, are more sophisticated and admission is more restricted and competitive.