Bachelor in Primary Education

For admission to the program, before the start of the courses, applicants must have one of the following qualifications:

1. high school leaving examination awarded in accordance with Federal legislation, obtained before the start of the degree course;
    
2. leaving examination awarded by the Scuola Cantonale di Commercio
    
3. leaving examination with:
   
   - "Attestato cross passerella Scuole universitarie" for students with Federal vocational school leaving examination;
   
   - complementary examination certificate ("Attestato corso passerella SUPSI-DFA") for students with a Cantonal high school leaving examination in the Arts (maturità artistica) or with a Federal or Cantonal vocational school leaving examination
   
   - complementary examination certificate (“Attestato corso passerella SUPSI-DFA”) for students with a vocational school certification of proficiency obtained after a minimum of three years training and who have at least three years of work experience.
   Applicants who have not yet obtained the above-mentioned Attestato, may submit their admission application in advance. Candidates shall enclose the form attesting their application to the Passerella Course to their application for the bachelor program. At any rate, admission to the bachelor program is subject to the fulfillment of the admission requirements and to passing the admission procedure;
    
4. high school leaving examination awarded outside Switzerland. For the recognition of foreign secondary school qualifications, the Admission Commission refers to the CRUS recommendations related to the evaluation of non-Swiss secondary school diplomas.

Applicants who fulfill the requirements, and whose qualifications have not been awarded in Italian, are admitted subject to verification of their fluency in Italian. The level required corresponds to level C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR).

Applicants who fulfill the requirements specified in point 4 are admitted, subject to verification of their knowledge of the history and geography of Switzerland.

Applicants to the Bachelor of Arts SUPSI in primary school teaching without the required language skills in French, certified through a B2 level within the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), must certify them before the beginning of the III semester of study. Failure to do so will prevent students from accessing the certification of the module "Francese L2: fondamenti di didattica", but will not prevent them from attending the module. More information is available in the document "Competenze in lingua francese".

Besides proving the fulfillment of the admission requirements applicants must get through the admission procedures as specified in the application procedure directives.

Admission is conditioned to the payment of the semester fee. Starting with the second semester of study, the semester fee is due even if the student decides to leave the program, unless this decision is announced in written form to the Department of Education and Learning Direction before December 15 for the Spring semester or July 31 for the Fall semester.