Please note: The updated ECTS brochures for a given academic year are published every September. In the meantime, you can always refer to the updated course lists available here.

Luiss was one of the first universities in Europe to adopt the ECTS system.

Recognizing completed studies and earned qualifications is a prerequisite for creating a single European education area where students and teachers can move freely without barriers.

This is why ECTS – the English acronym for the European Community Course Credit Transfer System – was created, with the aim of promoting the academic recognition of studies undertaken abroad.

Above all, ECTS is a tool designed to create transparency, establish the conditions needed to bring institutions closer together, and expand the range of choices available to students. Its application facilitates the recognition of students' academic work through the use of universally understood standards—credits and grades—and results in a better understanding of national higher education systems.

ECTS ensures transparency through the following tools:

• ECTS credits, which represent – in the form of a numerical value assigned to a course unit – the workload that a student must undertake in order to complete a given course unit. The credits express the quantity of work required for each course unit relative to the overall workload needed to successfully complete a full year of study at the institution. This includes lectures, practical work, seminars, internships, research or surveys, personal study—whether at home or in the library—as well as exams and other forms of student assessment. Therefore, ECTS is based on the student's overall workload and isn't limited solely to lecture hours.
• The ECTS learning agreement, which outlines the student's study plan and indicates the ECTS credits that will be awarded upon its satisfactory completion. The agreement requires the student to follow the host university's program as an integral part of their higher education, requires the home institution to guarantee the student full academic recognition of the credits obtained abroad, and requires the host institution to provide the agreed course units to the extent allowed by the academic calendar.
• The ECTS transcript of records, which presents the student's academic results in a clear, complete, and comprehensible manner for each part and which must be easily transferable from one institution to another.
• The ECTS information brochure, which provides useful information to students and staff about the institutions, schools, course organization and structure, as well as the individual course units.

Please refer to the following brochures for additional information on ECTS as well as course descriptions.