The environment around and the classrooms are nice and cool in summer but as a university, it is very poorly organized. As soon as you start attending it and getting to know the system but above all the teachers you understand that there you are considered only a number.

What I recommend for those who want to choose it is to do research on the professors, some of them do not even have a university professor’s curriculum and if you can go and listen to some lectures on the subjects that interest you or some oral exam.

For those wishing to undertake the course of economics, there is an exam that lasts only 10 min and there are 10 questions for which you have 1 min per question. Now think when you get the question of calculating accruals and deferrals, 1 minute is not enough for you to do the calculations (you don’t even have space to do some calculations).

I remember once that out of 230 people who had attended this exam only 2 people had passed. Do the math yourself. Furthermore, the teacher whose name I do not want to say was very “friendly” with the rector and it was she who had chosen this method of evaluation.

Although we all complained that it was an unfair method of evaluation, it remained that way for years.
Once to make fun of us with a smile on his face he replied saying: nobody passes my exam neither on the first nor on the second attempt….

I write this comment in the hope that the reader does not make the same mistake that I did. Find out first, it’s a lifestyle choice, don’t take it lightly.

I graduated from Bicocca. I attended the Bachelor in economics and business administration. The language of the bachelor is Italian.
This is one of the best public university in Italy. Nevertheless, about international reputation is far from Bocconi, that is very famous and prestigious.
The majority of the teachers are kind. The website is not good, and it is chaotic, It is difficult to obtain info, and when you write to teachers you have to wait for their answers for some days. Moreover, the university does not give with good advance info about calendars, hours, dates of exams and lesson.
Exams are written or oral, and in my bachelor, there are no group projects (only in some courses but they are not compulsory, and you don’t need them to gain a better mark). You can easily study without attending the lesson, and without buying books. Slides provided by teacher, and booklets of Fronteretro copisteria are enough (I attended only a few lessons, I bought only 4 books in 3 years, and just studying slides and booklets I graduated with 110 with honour)(obviously you have to study and to prepare a study plan, it’s impossible to obtain a good mark studying only 1 week before the exam).
There is no competition among students, so there is not a bad environment in this sense. Exams are in January, February, April, June,July and September. Every year is divided into two semesters (late September to February; late February to July).
About the city, there is nothing bad to say. Milan is an international city, here you can find whatever you want. It is beautiful and modern, and it is different than the other Italian cities (I mean there are less ancient monuments than Rome… but there are skyscrapers…). The campus isn’t in the centre, but you can reach the centre by train in 10 min, and by underground in 20 min. Unfortunately, rent an apartment is very expensive, since Milan is the most expensive city in Italy.

To conclude, I advise attending this bachelor because it is not too difficult, and you can obtain a good grade. However, I advise you to attend a university abroad or Bocconi or Cattolica in Milan for your master, since Bicocca is chaotic and it has a low reputation on the job market than a prestigious foreign university or than Bocconi and Cattolica.