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Milan, Italy

Luigi Bocconi University

Spend a semester at Bocconi University in the heart of Milan.

Program Overview

About Luigi Bocconi University

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Bocconi was established in Milan in 1902, with a generous endowment from Ferdinando Bocconi, a wealthy merchant who intended to commemorate his son lost in battle overseas. Bocconi thus became the first Italian institution of higher education to grant a degree in economics. Today, Bocconi is a research university of international standing in business, economics, and law. Its research projects are funded by national and supranational institutions. Bocconi has close relations with major corporations and international agencies, as well as their managers and officials, and constantly interacts with the business and economic environment to assess new issues, implement new techniques, and start new research endeavors.

 

Term Dates

Bocconi offers IBEX opportunities in the fall and spring semesters.

  • Fall semester: mid-September to late-December (Special exam sessions organized in December for exchange students)
  • Spring semester: mid-February to late-May (Exam session in June)

Dates are approximate and may be subject to change.

 

Approximate Living Expenses

  • Housing: On campus housing is approximately €2900 – €4200 per month. Exchange students can request accommodation in Bocconi’s dorms through the International Student Desk (ISD) Housing Office when completing the online application for the exchange program. Rooms are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • Food: approximately 5€ for a complete meal at the university restaurant or €10 at a nearby cafe.
  • Books and class materials: €50 – 100 per course.
  • Local transportation: around €22 per month for the bus pass.
  • Health insurance:  approximately €49 for 6 months coverage, €98 for 12 months coverage (obligatory for non-EU citizens).
  • Permit of stay: approximately €120/semester.

€ = Euro

Find out more about IBEX tuition, housing, and other logistics.

 

Language of Instruction

English and Italian

 

Student Services

The student services available to exchange students include:

  • An Italian Language Crash Course at the beginning of the semester
  • Welcome activities including city tours and a welcome cocktail event
  • An active international students group that hosts weekly social activities

Academic Information

If you are accepted to IBEX, you will attend two individual advising meetings to plan and revise your schedule: one with NYU Stern Academic Advising and one with the NYU Stern Global Experiences team. As you build your academic schedule for your semester abroad, carefully review and consider the following course information.

 

IBEX Course Information

  • You may take a full semester of business classes while abroad on IBEX.
  • Leave room for at least two general electives in your schedule. This allows you to:
    • Take interesting, location-specific courses not offered at Stern, and
    • Have more flexibility during the course registration process.
  • Reference the IBEX Course Guide: What you can or cannot take.
    • You can take a maximum of two classes per concentration.
    • Accounting courses cannot be taken for credit toward the Accounting or CPA majors/concentrations.
    • All IBEX grades will transfer back to NYU Stern as Pass/Fail.

 

Previously Approved Courses

  • Listed below are courses that were taken previously by Stern IBEX students and have already been approved for a specific NYU equivalent.
  • There is no guarantee that the courses listed here will be offered during the specific semester you study abroad. It is important to be flexible. Have a Plan A and Plan B and the space to take some electives.
  • If a course is already listed below as approved, it does not need to be reviewed again, unless you want to see if it will count towards a new requirement.

 

Finding New Courses

  • You are not limited to only taking the courses listed on this page.
  • If you see a course on Bocconi’s website that you would like to take, but it is not listed below, you must submit the syllabus to Stern’s Global Experiences team for approval.
  • Once Bocconi publishes its confirmed courses for the semester you will be attending, you can revise your list as needed based on what is being offered.

 

List of Approved Courses

Please note that exchange students have encountered challenges enrolling in Text and Ideas, and, Cultures and Contexts equivalent courses due to limited humanities courses at Bocconi. As with all topics, it is very important to continue to be as flexible as possible when selecting courses.

List of Approved Courses
**Please note that any pre-approved business course can also come back as a General Stern Elective
 

Course Title Abroad

NYU Credits

Course Equivalent at NYU

Semester Taken

30331 - Political Philosophy 3 Texts & Ideas Spring 2023
30524 Economic History  3 Cultures and Contexts OR General Non-Stern Elective Fall 2021, Fall 2022

30035 - Economic History and History of Economic Thought

3

Cultures & Contexts OR Texts & Ideas

Spring 2018, Spring 2020

30284 Empirical Methods for Economics (Introduction to Econometrics) 3 ECON-UB 251 Econometrics I Spring 2022
30387 Climate Change Economics 3 ECON-UB 225 Business and the Environment Spring 2022
Mind And Society: Intro to Cognitive Sciences 3 Advanced Economics Elective Spring 2023
30418 - Computanional Microeconomics (Game Theory) 3 Advanced Economics Elective Spring 2022

30195 - Economics (Poverty, Inequality and Income Distribution)

3

Advanced Economics Elective

Fall 2021

30172 Financial Macroeconomics

3

Advanced Economics Elective OR Advanced Finance Elective

Fall 2018

30264 Public Finance

3

Advanced Economics Elective

Fall 2017

30326 - Introduction to Economics (Module II -Macroeconomics) 3 ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global Business Spring 2024
30443 International Macroeconomics  3 ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global Business Fall 2023
30409 Macroeconomics 4 ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global Business Fall 2021

30057 International Economics

3

ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global Business (Also approved for International Economics BPE Requirement)

Spring 2021

30054 International and Monetary Economics

3

ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global Business

Fall 2020

30576 - Institutions and Global Strategy 3 Advanced Global Business Elective Fall 2023
30017 - Corporate Finance 3 FINC-UB 7 Corporate Finance Fall 2023
30150 - Introduction to Options and Futures 3 FINC-UB 43 Derivatives Fall 2023
30511 - Fintech for Banking and Financial Transformation 3 MULT-UB 80 Foundations of Fintech Spring 2023
30608 - Behavioral and Experimental Finance 3 FINC-UB 29 Behavioral Finance Spring 2023
30186 Venture and Development Capital 3 FINC-UB 61 Topics in Entrepreneurial Finance Fall 2021
30026 Monetary Economics 4 Advanced Finance Elective  Fall 2021
30006 - Financial Markets and Institutions 3 Advanced Finance Elective  Fall 2023
30257 Corporate Valuation 3 Advanced Finance Elective Fall 2023
30518 Introduction to Blockchain 3 Advanced Finance Elective Fall 2021
30285 Empirical Methods for Finance (Introduction to Econometrics for Finance) 3 Advanced Finance Elective Fall 2021
20198 Financial Management and Financial Markets 3 Advanced Finance Elective Fall 2021
30187 Alternative Investments 3 Advanced Finance Elective Fall 2021
30173 Corporate Banking 3 FINC-UB 45 The Financial Service Industry Fall 2021

30468 International Economics and Finance

4

Advanced Finance Elective OR ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global Business

Spring 2020, Fall 2020

30434 Finance Module 2 (Financial System)

3

Advanced Finance Elective

Spring 2020

Business Valuation

3

Advanced Finance Elective

Spring 2018

30177 - Financial Modelling

3

Advanced Finance Elective

Spring 2020

30180 Equity Portfolio Management

3

FINC-UB 44 Portfolio Management

Fall 2018

Principles of International Finance

3

FINC-UB 30 International Financial Management

Spring 2018

Risk Management with Derivatives

3

FINC-UB 43 Derivatives

Spring 2018

30421 Information Systems Management 3 Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective Fall 2023
30416 Big Data and Databases 3 Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective Fall 2021
30600 - Social Networks in Organizations 3 Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective OR BEMT Minor (Stern Requirement) Spring 2023
30607 - Foundations of Data Science 3 Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective Spring 2023

30514 Big Data For Business Analytics

3

Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective

Spring 2020

30517 Python Programming for Economics, Management, and Finance

3

Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective

Spring 2020

30495 Innovation and Big Data for the Public Sector

3

Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective

Spring 2020

30421 Information Systems Management

3

INFO-UB 1 Info Tech in Business and Society

Fall 2021

Business Strategy 4 MGMT-UB 18 Spring 2024
Organization Theory 4 MGMT-UB 1 Management and Organizations Fall 2023
30450 - Fundamentals of Management 4 MGMT-UB 18 Strategic Analysis Fall 2023
30529 - Entrepreneurship and Strategic Innovation in the Fashion Industry 3 Advanced Management Elective Spring 2024
30034 Management of Public and Not For Profit Organizations 3 Advanced Management Elective Fall 2023

30297 - Managing Creativity

3

Advanced Management Elective

Spring 2021

30275 Le Imprese della Moda: Modelli di Business e Strategie di Sviluppo Emergenti

3

Advanced Management Elective

Spring 2020

30298 Diversity Management and Policy

3

Advanced Management Elective

Spring 2020

30379 Country Specific Business Models in Fashion and Luxury

3

Advanced Management Elective

Spring 2020

30525 Digital Strategy

3

Advanced Management Elective

Spring 2020

Introduction to Management Consulting

3

Advanced Management Elective

Spring 2019

30263 Organizing Entrepreneurship

3

Advanced Management Elective

Fall 2018

30222 New Product Development & Open Innovation

3

Advanced Management Elective

Fall 2018

30512 International Nonprofit Organizations and Strategic Philanthropy

3

Advanced Management Elective

Fall 2018

30221 Management of Fashion Companies

3

Advanced Management Elective OR Advanced Global Business Elective

Fall 2018, Spring 2021

30269 - Competitive Strategies in Creative Industries 3 OPMG-UB 1 Operations Management Fall 2021

30153 Organization Theory

3

MGMT-UB 1 Management and Organizations

Fall 2017

30602 - Consumer Insights 3 Advanced Marketing Elective Spring 2023
30259 New Products and Product Management 3 Advanced Marketing Elective Fall 2021

30439 Green Marketing

3

Advanced Marketing Elective

Spring 2020

30376 Communication and Cultural Consumption Decisions

3

Advanced Marketing Elective

Spring 2020

30226 Marketing Distribution

3

Advanced Marketing Elective

Spring 2020

30223 - Marketing Communication 3 MKTG-UB 3 Advertising Fall 2021

30498 Principles of E-Marketing and E-Commerce

3

MKTG-UB 57 Digital Marketing

Fall 2018

30015 Marketing

3

MKTG-UB 1 Introduction to Marketing

Fall 2017

30492 Entrepreneurship and New Business Startup

3

MULT-UB 301 The Startup Lab (not an equivalent to MGMT-UB 85 Entrepreneurship)

Spring 2021

Family Business Strategy

3

Advanced Entrepreneurship Elective

Spring 2018

Sustainable Operations Management 3 Operations Management Elective Spring 2023
30383 - Digital Disruption and Entrepreneurship 3 BEMT Minor - Stern (Business) Requirement Spring 2023
30380 The Global Industry of Imaginaries 3 BEMT Minor - Stern (Business) Requirement Fall 2021
30067 - Storia Economica / Economic History 3 General Non-Stern Elective Fall 2023
History of European Integration 3 General Non-Stern Elective Fall 2023
30528 - Sociology 4 General Non-Stern Elective Fall 2023
30469 - Critical Approaches To the Arts II - Module I (Television and Culture) 3 General Non-Stern Elective Fall 2023
30487 - Political Regimes  3 General Non-Stern Elective Spring 2023
30196 - International Relations 3 General Non-Stern Elective Spring 2023
30317 Political Science and Comparative Politics 3 General Non-Stern Elective Fall 2022
30483 Politics of Advanced Democracies 4 General Non-Stern Elective Spring 2024
30334 International Relations 4 General Non-Stern Elective Fall 2021
30372 Global History 3 General Non-Stern Elective Fall 2021

30497 Health and Society

3

General Non-Stern Elective

Spring 2019

30036 Cultural Anthropology

3

General Non-Stern Elective

Fall 2022

30509 Computer Programming

3

General Non-Stern Elective

Fall 2018

30214 - Sustainable Operations Management 3 Sustainable Business Elective (Discipline) Spring 2023
30439 - Green Marketing 3 Sustainable Business Elective (Discipline) Spring 2023
30571 - Fashion Collection and Sustainability 3 Sustainable Business Elective (Issue Area) Spring 2023
30575 - Managing The Green Transition: The Role of Utilities 3 Sustainable Business Elective (Issue Area) Spring 2023
30465 - Organizational Behavior and Social Psychology 4 General Stern Elective Fall 2023

30529 Entrepreneurship and Strategic Innovation in the Fashion Industry

3

General Stern Elective

Spring 2021

30283 Markets, Organizations, and Incentives

3

General Stern Elective

Spring 2019

Fintech For Banking and Financial Transformation

3

General Stern Elective

Spring 2019

Entrepreneurial Strategy

3

General Stern Elective

Spring 2018

30178 International Banking

3

MULT-UB 27 The Financial System

Fall 2017

30262 Leadership Skills

3

SOIM-UB 12 Professional Responsibility & Leadership (PRL) OR Advanced Management Elective

Fall 2016, Fall 2018