Political And Administrative Sciences 2025-2026

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Degree Class L-36 – Political Science and International Relations

Access type: Unrestricted (no admission test required).

The course has a standard duration of 3 years (full-time), or 4 to 6 years if you choose a part-time track.
To earn your degree, you must complete 180 ECTS credits.

Course Director: Stefano Quirico.
Teaching location of the course: Alessandria, at Palazzo Borsalino, Via Cavour 84.

Course overview
The course offers you the possibility of choosing between three study paths (economic-administrative, political-social, innovative-interdisciplinary), according to your inclinations and preferences. In three years you will acquire many interdisciplinary skills, which you will be able to spend in the world of work (public administration, private companies, no profit sector), including as a consultant and expert in political, economic and social subjects. You will also develop a strong critical spirit, which will help you to move in contemporary society and respond effectively to its transformations, from the local to the global level.
The first two years are common to all pathways, and allow you to acquire a solid cross-curricular education: social sciences, political sciences, economics, history, law, language skills is what the SPA Degree Course offers students as training for the professions most in tune with the current needs of socio-economic development and in relation to the transformations of our times, with particular regard to the green and digital transition.

In the third year, the course is divided into three distinct curricula:

• the economic-administrative curriculum, designed to train experts in the problems of management and control in the Public Administration and economists oriented towards the area of public policy;
• the political-social curriculum, aimed at offering fundamental and transversal knowledge in the historical-social and political-international spheres, with particular regard to the European framework and phenomena of global scope;
• the innovative-interdisciplinary curriculum, designed to provide in-depth study of themes and problems of particular urgency in Italian and European society (public health, digital revolution, transition towards a sustainable social and productive organisation).

Key features 

• Course with a strong interdisciplinary character (you can study law, economics, sociology, history and politics)
• Attention to the most innovative social, political and economic dynamics 
• Direct and informal relationship with lecturers
• Development of the critical spirit to adequately interpret contemporary reality
• Broad choice of experiences abroad (Erasmus + and Free-Mover)
• Strong links with the local area (we support you even after graduation)
• Opportunity to further your education with specialised (two-year) degrees

Career and employment opportunities

• Positions in public administration (local, regional, national) and cultural institutions.
• Directors or economic experts in companies, banks and insurance companies.
• Careers in European and international institutions.
• Activities in research offices, communications companies, policy analysis, data collection and processing (data manager).
• Consultant activities for companies and public administration.
• Employment in the non-profit sector (not-for-profit organisations, cultural and trade associations, international cooperation, intercultural mediation, event organisation)

Course Organisation

Student Representatives
All information is available on the Student Representatives page.

Need information?
If you are looking for information about lecturers and office hours: UPObook
If you want to contact the Student secretariat UPOanswers
If you want to speak directly with the Secretariat (in case of particularly complex issues): UPOriceve
If you are looking for information on job orientation, internships/internships and job placement: jobplacement@uniupo.it

A complete list of useful contacts can be found on this page of the University website.

Internationalisation

Erasmus Agreements with DIGSPES

• Bulgaria: "National and World Economics" (Sofia)
• Repubblica Ceca: Hradec, Masaryk (Brno)
• Finlandia: Tampere
• Francia: Savoie (Chambéry), Sud-Toulon-Var (Tolone), Sophia-Antipolis (Nizza), Rouen, Rennes I, Reims-Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), Catholique de Lyon, Paris Nanterres (Parigi), Montpellier, Strasbourg
• Germania: Treviri, Marburg
• Lituania: Kaunas. Malta: Malta (Msida)
• Polonia: “Karol Adamiecki Economiczny” (Katowice), “Jagellllonsky” (Cracovia), "Lazarki School of commerce and law" (Varsavia)
• Portogallo: Castelo Branco, Lisbona, Porto
• Regno Unito: Winchester 
• Romania: “1 Decembrie 1918” (Alba Iulia)
• Spagna: Alicante, "Miguel Hernandez" (Elche), Jaen, Murcia, La Laguna (Tenerife), "Rovira i Virgili" (Tarragona).

International opportunities

Students are encouraged to join international mobility programmes, including Erasmus e Free Mover.

Quality Assurance CDS
The quality assurance of teaching is carried out in line with the policies defined by the University and is implemented and monitored by evaluating the management of the educational offer, with a view to continuous improvement. At BoD level, quality assurance is entrusted to the Quality Assurance/Review Group.

The CdS Quality Assurance/Review Group in  Political And Administrative Sciences: Stefano Quirico, Stefano Saluzzo,  Ferruccio Ponzano, Alba Angelucci, Marta Regalia; Andrea Gasti (PTA representative) and Francesca Valeria Vassarotti (student representative).

The documents relating to the quality of the CoS can be consulted in the dedicated section