Politecnico di Milano Speciality : Civil & Structural Engineering
programme: Industrial Design

Milan’s Politecnico is among the best universities in the world, just being aware of that makes me proud.

There are two things I’d like to highlight in this review: the transition from actual classes to online ones and back again, and a project I’ve been part of.

When covid first struck, it took us a little more than a week to be fully operational again, in a way that – sure – couldn’t emulate the student life outside classes, but satisfied the demands and managed to teach us what we were supposed to learn.

When we came back to campus, all the rooms were equipped with a camera and an overhead mic, in order to be able to welcome both physically and virtually attending students.

I think it pulled out the good from the covid experience and added it to actual classes.

Secondly, I took part in one of the numerous projects outside classes.

It really was important for me: both for my development as a designer and the deployment of my passions.

It is a Formula Student team, a group of circa 100 students who join forces to build a racecar.

This symbolises the student life (there are hundreds of projects a student can take part in) that surrounds this university: there’s something for everyone.

All in all, I think it’s a really good place to study. Of course, you could happen to have a kinky professor or to be in a study course that you don’t like, but this can happen in every university, so I wouldn’t make it count.