MSc in Management

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore runs a two-year, fully English-taught MSc in Management on its Milan campus — an EFMD-accredited Master in Management with no GMAT requirement and income-assessed tuition that starts at about €6,850 a year for EU-income students.¹ ²

Overview

Founded in 1921, Università Cattolica is Italy’s largest private university, and its Milan campus sits at the centre of the country’s financial, consulting and luxury-goods economy.¹ The MSc in Management (Laurea Magistrale in Management) is a 120-ECTS, four-semester degree taught entirely in English, training generalist managers across finance, strategy, operations and marketing.¹ The programme is EFMD-accredited, and the university placed in the top 350 globally — and #6 in Italy — for Business & Management in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025.¹

For a wider view of the credential, see our guide on whether a MiM is worth it in 2026, and how Cattolica fits the national picture in our roundup of the best MiM programmes in Italy.

Curriculum & Structure

The first year builds a quantitative management core — analytics, finance, strategy and marketing — and the second opens into a broad set of electives and practical projects.¹ A signature element is the Business Lab, where small student teams act as consultants on a real company’s challenge in sectors such as fashion, life sciences, digital and consulting; internships and optional study-abroad terms round out the degree.¹ The generalist, English-taught design makes it a true Master in Management rather than a specialised MSc — useful if you are still choosing a function. To weigh that choice, read our piece on how to build a MiM profile.

Application & Deadlines

Admission for international applicants runs in five rounds, and the round table is programme-specific — Cattolica publishes a separate one for each degree, so read the MSc in Management’s own.³ For the 2026/2027 cycle the rounds opened on 17 November 2025 and closed on 21 January, 25 February, 25 March, 6 May and 24 June 2026, with each application assessed roughly four to six weeks after its round closes and waiting-list decisions issued by the end of July.³

The detail that decides your calendar is who each round is for. Cattolica labels Round 4 (6 May) the “final round for non-EU” applicants; Round 5 (24 June) is open only to “EU applicants or non-EU already in Italy”.³ A visa-needing applicant who plans back from the last date on the page is therefore already seven weeks too late. The school’s own advice is to apply “within the first 3 deadlines, especially if you are a non-EU student who needs a study visa” — and because places are limited, later rounds also carry waiting-list risk. The 2026/2027 intake has closed; the 2027/2028 cycle reopens in autumn 2026.³ Selection is on academic merit — a recognised bachelor’s degree of at least 180 ECTS that qualifies you for a master’s in your home country — plus a B2-level English certificate (for example IELTS 6.0 or TOEFL iBT 79); no GMAT or GRE is requested.⁴ Confirm the exact round dates and accepted English tests on Cattolica’s own pages, as both shift each cycle.

Tuition & Funding

Tuition is income-assessed rather than a single flat fee.² Students whose family income is produced outside the EU pay a flat €9,370 per year — about €18,740 across the two-year degree; students whose income is produced in the EU or associated states pay €6,850 per year; and students whose income is produced in Italy pay on a sliding scale from roughly €3,800 to €11,500 per year.² Non-EU applicants can apply for the merit-based UCSC International Scholarship inside the online application, which reduces the fee to about €6,400 a year and renews for the normal duration of the degree.² Cattolica re-publishes its bands each spring, so confirm the current figures on the school’s admission page before you budget.

Career Outcomes

Università Cattolica does not publish a graduate salary figure or industry breakdown for the MSc in Management, and the programme is not ranked in the Financial Times Masters in Management table, so there is no standardised cross-school salary benchmark to quote — we would rather omit a number than invent one.¹ What is clear is the setting: a Milan campus inside Italy’s largest concentration of multinational headquarters, consulting firms and fashion and luxury houses, and a Business Lab that connects students to real corporate projects.¹ For context on outcomes from Italian MiMs generally, see our Italy MiM career-outcomes read; confirm any programme-specific placement data with the school directly.

Campus & Reputation

Milan is Italy’s financial and industrial capital, and Cattolica’s central campus places students among the employers — banking, consulting, fashion and luxury — that recruit from it. As Italy’s largest private university, EFMD-accredited and QS-ranked in its subject, Cattolica is a credible English-taught alternative to the city’s better-known names for applicants who want a generalist, no-GMAT Master in Management at a private school with international-scholarship support. To see how Italy stacks up against its neighbours, compare Italy versus France and Italy versus Spain for a MiM.