The GMAT is not part of the admission process for Cattolica's MSc in Management, and neither is any other admission test. As an Italian Laurea Magistrale, admission is decided on academic merit — a recognised bachelor's degree of at least 180 ECTS that qualifies you for a master's in your home country — together with a B2-level English certificate. What replaces a test, and what is easy to miss because it sits under the programme-specific half of the entry requirements rather than the general one, is a subject rule: Cattolica asks for a bachelor's in economics, management or business studies whose transcript covers at least four of business law, financial management, marketing, business organisation and management accounting. The evidence is the official transcript of records, and if you have not graduated it must also list the courses in progress. Note too that Cattolica sorts applicants by where the degree was awarded rather than by citizenship — you are an international applicant if you hold or are completing a non-Italian bachelor's, whatever passport you carry, and the international and domestic procedures have separate, non-refundable application fees. No GMAT or GRE score is requested and no class-average is published.
No admission test of any kind. What gates the file instead is a subject rule: the bachelor's must be in economics, management or business studies and must cover at least four of business law, financial management, marketing, business organisation and management accounting, evidenced on an official transcript — alongside a recognised degree of at least 180 ECTS and a B2-level English certificate
| Test policy | No admission test of any kind. What gates the file instead is a subject rule: the bachelor's must be in economics, management or business studies and must cover at least four of business law, financial management, marketing, business organisation and management accounting, evidenced on an official transcript — alongside a recognised degree of at least 180 ECTS and a B2-level English certificate |
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| GPA | Recognised bachelor's degree (min. 180 ECTS / 3 years) in economics, management or business studies, covering at least four of business law, financial management, marketing, business organisation and management accounting, and qualifying for a master's in your home country |
| Work experience | 0–2 years (not required) |
| MiMs we track admitting without a required GMAT/GRE | 75 of 118 |
A GMAT or GRE is not required to apply to the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore MiM — it is one of the 75 of 118 Master's in Management we track (about 64%) that admit without a required test. See every European MiM you can apply to without a GMAT on our MiM without the GMAT shortlist, or read how GMAT waivers work.
Most European MiM programs, including this one, accept the GRE and often the GMAT Focus Edition or a school-specific test as alternatives, and weigh the whole application — academics, internships, essays, and interview — rather than the score alone.
Frequently asked questions
Is Università Cattolica's MSc in Management taught in English?
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Sources
- MSc in Management — official programme page (2-year/120-ECTS, English, Milan; Business Lab; EFMD; QS by Subject 2025 top 350 / #6 in Italy) ↗ — Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore — Cattolica International
- MSc in Management — Entry requirements. SELECTION CHECKED 2026-09-11 (P24e), and it adds a requirement this profile did not carry. The no-test tier is confirmed — no admission test appears anywhere on this page — but under "Programme-specific requirements for Management" the school states: "You must hold a bachelor degree in: Economics, Management, Business studies" and "Your degree must include at least four of these subjects: Business law, Financial management, Marketing, Business organisation, Management accounting", documented "through an official transcript of records. If you have not yet graduated, the transcript must also list the courses currently in progress." The general half is as this profile already said — a first-cycle qualification "awarded by an official institution", of "minimum 3 years, 180 ECTS credits", qualifying for a comparable second-cycle programme, plus an English certificate at application time ("If your certificate is missing or does not meet our standards, your application will be rejected. You cannot send new results after submission"). Also recorded because it decides which procedure a reader uses: "regardless of your citizenship, you're considered an international student/applicant if you: Hold a non-Italian bachelor degree, or Are about to complete a non-Italian academic qualification" — the group is set by where the degree was awarded, and "The application fee is non-refundable, even if you apply through the wrong procedure." Reached from the programme's own Admission and tuition page, whose panels are separate sub-pages rather than payload-rendered accordions ↗ — Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore — Cattolica International
- English language proficiency requirement for a Laurea Magistrale. CHECKED 2026-09-11: confirms this profile's "B2-level English certificate" for Management. The baseline graduate table is CEFR B2 — Academic IELTS 6.0, TOEFL iBT 84, Cambridge First (FCE) 173, PTE Academic 46. Three 2-year graduate programmes are listed as requiring more — The Arts and Industry of Narration (C1, IELTS 7.0 / TOEFL 95), Banking and Finance (B2, IELTS 6.5 / TOEFL 84) and Global Business Management (B2, IELTS 6.5 / TOEFL 85) — and the MSc in Management is NOT among them, so the B2 baseline is the one that applies here. Exemptions are automatic for study in Australia, Canada (except Quebec), Ireland, Malta, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK or the USA, or a full degree taught in English in an EU country ↗ — Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore — Cattolica International
- Tuition fees and scholarships — graduate (non-EU €9,370/yr · EU €6,850/yr · Italy income-based €3,800–€11,500/yr · UCSC International Scholarship ≈€6,400/yr) ↗ — Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore — Cattolica International
- MSc in Management — Application timeline (2026/2027: five rounds — R1 17 Nov 2025 → 21 Jan 2026, R2 → 25 Feb, R3 → 25 Mar, R4 → 6 May "Final round for non-EU", R5 → 24 Jun "EU applicants or non-EU already in Italy"; evaluation 4–6 weeks after each round; waiting-list decisions by end of July). SCOPE CHECKED 2026-09-04, and the pointer was wrong: Cattolica publishes a SEPARATE timeline per programme, and the URL this profile previously cited (…-admission-and-tuition-applicaation-timeline) now serves the timeline for the MSc in Communication for Business, Media and Culture — a different degree, with FOUR rounds and a Round 4 that "will not open, due to the programme having reached full capacity". The Management programme's own timeline is reached from its Admission and tuition page (…-management-admission-and-tuition) and is the one cited here ↗ — Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore — Cattolica International
- Entry requirements (recognised bachelor min. 180 ECTS; B2-level English certificate) ↗ — Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore — Cattolica International