Fifty-nine percent of this cohort is Italian — an unusually high domestic share by European MiM standards — and Bocconi does not present it as anything else. That is a trade-off rather than a defect: it buys a class deeply embedded in Milanese recruiting, and it costs some of the cross-border mix a multi-campus programme has. The intake is about 280 students drawn from 30+ nationalities, 50% female, average age 23 at entry, with pre-programme experience usually limited to internships. Academic backgrounds weight toward economics, business and management — Bocconi draws heavily on its own Bachelor pipeline — with minorities from engineering, political science and the humanities; after Bocconi itself the most represented undergraduate institutions include Sciences Po, ESADE, the LSE, Trinity College Dublin and the IIMs. Our piece on how international a European MiM really is explains what these shares can and cannot be compared against.
A typical Università Bocconi MiM cohort is around 280 students , drawn from 30 nationalities.
| Class size | 280 |
|---|---|
| Average age | 23 |
| International | 41% |
| Female | 50% |
| Average GMAT | 650 |
| Nationalities | 30 |
Frequently asked questions
How international is the Bocconi IM cohort?
Sources
- Bocconi — MSc in International Management (official page) ↗ — Università Bocconi
- Bocconi — Application & selection rounds (a.y. 2027-28: four rounds run as windows; closing dates R1 29 Oct 2026 · R2 26 Jan 2027 · R3 11 Mar 2027 · R4 29 Apr 2027; applies to all MSc incl. International Management) ↗ — Università Bocconi
- Bocconi — IM CEMS MIM track ↗ — Università Bocconi
- Bocconi — FT 2025 ranking news ↗ — Università Bocconi
- Financial Times — Masters in Management 2025 ↗ — Financial Times
- QS Business Masters Rankings: Management 2026 ↗ — QS Quacquarelli Symonds
- CEMS — Bocconi University (member profile) ↗ — CEMS
- Bocconi — Tuition and fees (MSc, a.y. 2026-27: €18,550/year top bracket) ↗ — Università Bocconi
- Bocconi — IM CEMS MIM, IM Asia - China MIM, IM Asia - DD Bocconi-ESSEC and IM Concentration – DD ESSEC Luxury Management: the additional selection step for these four International Management tracks. INTERVIEW CHECKED 2026-09-03: "A recorded video interview is mandatory for all applicants", with "two minutes for each of the three questions", submitted through the Apply2B portal, and described as letting the Admissions Committee "assess candidates' communication skills, critical thinking, and interpersonal competencies". The general MSc admissions page (cited above, re-read the same day) confirms the standard route is unaffected: the video presentation there is "optional" for most programmes, these four "require the submission of a dedicated video presentation", and the only Bocconi programme it describes as requiring a video INTERVIEW outright is the MA in Global Law (GLOBE), which is not a management degree ↗ — Università Bocconi
- Bocconi University — Language requirements for MSc/MA programs. ENGLISH EVIDENCE CHECKED 2026-09-05: the bar is CEFR B2, met by a 'university qualification (or secondary school diploma) awarded in English', a recognised certificate, or an 'English exam at B2 level (or higher) passed in a university course'; 'students who are nationals from a majority English-speaking country are automatically assumed to meet the minimum English Language requirement'. NEGATIVE RECORDED: no country restriction attaches to the qualification-awarded-in-English route. Proof is due at enrolment rather than selection — 'no later than June 30, 2027' — with C1 by 23 July 2027 for IM Global Experience, Finance Global Experience, IM CEMS MIM, the IM Asia Bocconi-ESSEC Double Degree and the IM Concentration DD ESSEC Luxury Management. P33f RE-READ 2026-09-12: read again for one question only — does submitting a test result BELOW the course requirement remove an exemption the applicant would otherwise hold, as Bath states ('you will not be exempt')? This page publishes NO rule either way. Recorded as a dated SILENCE on that question, never as permission: a page that says nothing has not promised to ignore a weak score. ↗ — Bocconi University