Access to the Bachelor’s Degree in Strategic Sciences is reserved to Trainees Officers of the Army. Applicants must hold a high-school diploma or equivalent suitable qualification obtained abroad and deemed valid pursuant to applicable legislation. Students are required to have a good knowledge of the basic concepts of Mathematics and Physics, as well as of the English language, in addition to basic skills in the field of geographical, historical, legal, economic and social-political subjects. They shall also have suitable logics, reading and comprehension abilities. The requirements are assessed through tests described in the call for application issued once a year by the Ministry of Defence. Trainee Officers /Aspiring Officers are selected by the Ministry of Defence in accordance with the regulations provided in the Call for Applications for the admission to the first year of the Military Academy. Applicants to the Master’s Degree Programme in Strategic Sciences are admitted subject to passing all tests and placing successfully in the merit rankings drawn up by the examining boards appointed by the Ministry of Defence. The methods used to assess the knowledge required for accessing the programme are set in the Teaching Regulation of the Degree Programme, in accordance with the relevant call for applications issued once a year by the Ministry of Defence for admission to the Military Academy, indicating the additional training credits required in the event of a fail assessment.

Armed Forces Officer (Italian Army)
Graduates have a cross-culture knowledge and sensitivity for the respect the global issues (human rights, disarmament, environment and energy).
All students will have gained the knowledge of the English language; analysis and synthesis skills; knowledge of the international political and territorial organisation; knowledge to understand the complexity of armed conflicts; skills for using technological tools; social relations skills; economical and legal basic skills; skills in the subjects applied to military arts.
Graduates will have a solid technical-scientific preparation and more in-depth skills in some fields depending on the curriculum: more in-depth skills in political science, economics and law, historical and international relations for the Organisational Policy path, more in-depth skills in the scientific and engineering disciplines for the path of Infrastructure Systems, more in-depth skills of computer and telematic systems for the Communications path.

Armed Forces Officer (Italian Army)
Graduates will be able to take on responsibility roles in Bodies/Branches/Divisions/Unit of the Italian Army and will have the necessary skills to train, guide and lead the Unit they are in charge of in full decision-making, operating and logistic autonomy.
The graduates’ professional profile is an Army Officer with leading, coordination, and control roles on operating Units of limited complexity, tasks of preparation and management of personnel, means, materials, that are specific for the operation of military structures, skilled for using and managing IT tools and specific software. These functions will gain unique values based on the curriculum chosen by the student.

Graduates in Strategic Sciences, a Degree Programme reserved to Officers of the Normal Role of the Army, shall pursue an integrated approach with issues concerning the organisation and management of military units. With a view to their subsequent professional employment, the training programme has been structured on three curricula in function of the new and specific needs of each of the Army on which the Armed Force is articulated. Therefore, they are required to gain basic, advanced, and application knowledge in the scientific field, in the law and social field, and in purely military subjects. More specifically:
- basic sciences (mathematics, physics, chemistry and informatics) to support decision-making and operational processes (e.g., problem solving, game theory, etc.) for the correct use of defence systems equipped with high-tech, information and construction equipment;
- legal, political, institutional, economic and sociological disciplines with a view to the command functions of military units which presuppose the management of personnel and materials; and the optimum organisation of the resources allocated, including in humanitarian and civil protection contexts;
- historical and geographical subjects, in order to deeply explore operational contexts in which command, coordination and management activities are carried out. These subjects shall also convey the knowledge relating to the history and traditions of the Armed Force, to the development of military doctrines and relevant applications over time.
The training of the military graduate in Strategic Sciences is divided into a training framework that in the first year features a common, solid and extensive scientific foundation promoting the development of very diverse specific skills that are reflected in the third year. For this reason, the training programme is divided into different areas that can be reflected, according to the different future jobs, in the following three curricula:
- Political-Organisational, addressed to the officers belonging to the Army of Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, whose specific theoretical and training activities concern the fields of historical-political, economic-organisational, and cultural-communicative knowledge to interact adequately and effectively with third parties in contexts characterised by many types of diversity both in humanitarian and civil protection interventions, and in international crisis response operations.
- Infrastructural Systems, addressed to the Officers belonging to the Corps of Engineers whose specific theoretical and training activities concern two fundamental fields of knowledge; relating to construction techniques and materials sciences with a view to developing operational capacities leading to the recognition, setting up and solving of static and dynamic infrastructure problems.
- Communications, addressed to the Officers of the Broadcasting Corps whose specific theoretical and training activities concern two fundamental areas of knowledge such as Computers and Databases, useful for the management of information and communication problems, for the use of computer systems also on a network and for the access and management of databases.
The specific professional skills of technical and operating nature are acquired mainly through coordinated forms of training and internship for periods of time amounting to 60 credits (CFUs) during the three years. These forms of activity are carried out within the training structures and in the operational contexts identified by the military institutions and are mainly developed in the second and third years.

Graduates in Strategic Sciences shall:
- be able to collect and interpret the data deemed useful to develop independent opinions, including reflections on relevant social, technical and scientific, and ethical issues, within the scope of their own subject and professional skills
- be able to formulate independent opinions and evaluate their possible implications, specifically referring to the complex issues relating to professional functions The independent judgement and resulting critical skills are developed within the individual programmes, through a teacher-learner interaction process, also thanks to the different teaching modes, intended to stimulate both the interdisciplinary classification of theoretical and practical issues, and the ability to select and analyse the data that can be empirically assessed and therefore objectively validated, and also the ability to formulate alternative hypotheses and scenarios, and evaluate explication theories and models, as well as their applicability to real cases. The acquisition of the independent judgement is assessed through the evaluation of the teachings included in the student’s individual study plan and the assessment of the training internship experience.

The Degree Programme in Strategic Sciences allows students to gain skills and tools for the development of communication and relational skills. In particular, graduates shall gain the ability to:
- communicate information relating to the various subject fields in which the study programme is divided, also using one or multiple foreign languages.
- express relevant concepts and argumentations, extracting them from the knowledge acquired during the degree programme, properly using the specific languages of the various subjects
- draw up written reports, oral presentations and use multimedia interaction tools
To that purpose, and through the individual teachings, the degree programme offers students the opportunity to learn a suitable and rigorous language relating to a wide range of subject skills, in combination with the ability to write papers using the same language.
Suck skills will be developed in the learning path of the various teachings, for which the assessment tool provides for ascertaining the communication abilities of the student, by means of an exam, mid-term tests, reports, conversations and practical tests based on the activity carried out.
The activities part of the internship and the final examination offer students the opportunity to deeply explore and assess their abilities to analyse, process and communicate the work carried out.
In order to develop and consolidate the knowledge of the English language, specific training activities combined with relevant assessment tests are offered: students will easily develop the ability to exchange information in an international environment within their specific field.

At the end of the three years, graduates in Strategic Sciences must have developed the methodological abilities and learning skills required to integrate in the operating departments of the Italian Army with a high level of independence, and to pursue master’s degree studies and post-degree courses, professional refresher courses and permanent training.
Therefore, graduates must gain flexible approach in the different subjects as well as the ability to verify and broaden their knowledge and skills in each field.
A strict and conscious work method, verified by means of the activities carried out in teachings, internships, mid-term tests, written and oral final examinations, must become a heritage for the ability to autonomously and effectively take on study and analysis programmes and operating activities, by transferring the skills gained in the various fields of professional commitment. In accordance with an approach shared by all teachings, such skills will be based on the selection of information resources and authoritative sources for the knowledge of phenomena. The job-oriented experiences that are carried out during the internship will encourage the development of the skills required to the heads of department, like the formulation of the decision. The methodologies and educational tools needed to achieve the expected results may vary: group activities, peer evaluation, face-to-face and remote building knowledge, flipped classroom. These skills are verified through the various types of mid-term and final examinations, seminar tests specifically aimed at promoting an autonomous processing of issues, in the internship activity and in the final examination. The abilities and skills gained through internships and theoretical and practical activities are verified by means of tests, dedicated tutors looking at the student, and practical tests.