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.

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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.

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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.