The Dram

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extremely unorganized, ridiculous course organization ad exam structures. Some professors are actually amazing and are able to both deliver topics and knowledge effectively while also producing exams with a good balance between difficulty and utility - an exam should not be difficult for the sake of it, but should just test the knowledge and understanding; what should be difficult are the covered topics -, however in most cases either professors are unable to convey knowledge or exams are a badly structured, even more so now that I am enrolled for the graduate degree. pros: + renowned university + ample course catalogue (at least in computer science & engineering) + good website cons: - picking a good course with an organized professor and a reasonable exam is harder than it seems - 5 ECTS exams are usually overloaded, thus delivering poorly and requiring much more effort than what's declared - an unreasonably high percentage of professors are unreasonably haughty; if you send them an email asking for clarifications or kindly pointing out something they might answer with animosity, but if you ask student representatives to be an intermediate between students and professors, the latter might still get mad and take it as a form of cowardice. Note that this is not true in all cases as some professors are committed, kind and punctual. - feedback on professors, courses and exams is utterly useless - a good number of classrooms is poorly equipped, some even lacking sockets. It might happen that labs take place there and if your laptop will drains out of battery, well, your problem I would never attend this university again, but I guess it's my fault for sticking with it for the graduate degree too

Berrak

If you want to graduate with a good mark apparently being Italian helps, or you can simply ask everyone desperately in whatsapp groups which professors give the highest marks and select that courses - without choosing according to your interests. If you call this ‘a good education’.🥸 Talking for architecture.

Srrr

Deeply empathize with negative reviews, as I have suffered the same. The ubiquitous sound of loud talking; you can never find a quiet table; constantly losing things and don't expect to find back… This university, plus the country, is a nightmare of my life.

Ziyan Cheng

Disorganized structure and chaotic management. Poor student experience

simijtr trap

I can't understand why this University has become so famous, I suppose it is due to research, and I am writing this review to express my disappointment especially as far as the architecture course is concerned. The general culture part of the Arch entrance test one has to take, with questions about winners of the OSCAR AWARDS AND MARCO POLO LIFE that count the same with architecture questions, is evidence of a public introvert institution!!! What's the point in someone making the effort? Moreover, they do not accept international tests, SAT, and educational systems, like IB score ..... There's more...The test takes place in the end of July, results are published middle August, until the 5th of September, so in case this is your plan A, you 'd better have enrolled a course in some other university, just to be safe!!!!

Christian Nopitsch (Cxstn)

Terrible place to study (exchange in my case). Very badly organized school, far too few workplaces in relation to the enormous mass of students, overcrowded classes with no room for individual interests, very conservative and outdated teaching approaches and topics without any freedom. It is a shame, this university rather lets students freeze and work outside in winter, than offering more workplaces and admitting less students. This would significantly enhance the embarassing teaching. There is also a toxic competition between students and an unhealthy work ethic, especially in architecture.

Ahmad Eliyon

This university is below universal standards. First they say you can apply for scholarships but when you come here they will cut your scholarship, so you will experience harsh time. As community speaks Italian, I can't find job to afford my rent and even basic needs. In addition, library has few desks in comparison to the number of students. Also classes are crowded. All of them make your studying hard.

William Jallot

Politecnico di Milano is the worst school I have seen in my life. I am an exchange student there for one year, and I have noticed a lot of issues. I will develop each point that is not working in this school. -The organisation: It is catastrophic. For example, when you take an exam and you arrive, the teacher takes an entire hour to place each student. A better way of proceeding would be to prepare an exam plan in advance, where each student is assigned a seat in the exam room, and send them the plan so they know where they need to sit. I had several exams at the same time, so I was obliged to take some of my exams during the exam catch-up session. Some teachers tell us at the last minute that our exam is not graded and that we will have an oral exam on it in 5 days, which is a bit disconcerting. During the exams, you are allowed to have your laptop or tablet to solve the exercises, so some people cheat because it is easy to cheat when you can have whatever you want on your tablet and laptop, even if it is supposed to be "offline". It would be better just to give each student a formulary with all the formulas. There are a lot of mistakes in several courses. The teachers' corrections often have mistakes, so when you are preparing for the exam, you need to correct the teachers' mistakes yourself. I had to take one Italian course, and they provided us an English version of the exam, which was full of English errors. I had to ask many times for corrections to the English sentences in order to solve the exercises. Oh, and if you want to concentrate during the exams, it is quite impossible because the teachers are taking calls and speaking very loud in the room where you are taking your exam. Some teachers refuse to clarify the problem statements and to give you scrap paper.The difficulty at Polimi is understanding the problem statement and not solving the exercises. I am used to having the problem statements very clear and the exercises very challenging, which is not the case at Polimi.

Maria Fernanda Ibarra Torres

Went there today because I was interested in doing a Masters in Architecture. There was nowhere I could find any information so I went to the Library and asked at the desk. This woman at first treated me like and idiot but then was more normal and told me to go to building 1. Walked around the campus (which I found to be pretty average and not well maintained) before getting there, walked through an open door with guards but no one said anything so of course I assumed it was ok. Found information desk, they literally told me to look at their website as if I hadn’t of course already done that. And then when I was trying to see a bit more of the building this extremely rude man shouted at me in Italian and then a woman proceeded to kick me out in an unbelivably rude way saying I couldn’t be there. I cannot imagine any other university treating prospective students in this way. I of course will NOT be studying here. We have much better institutions in Mexico City where I live and we actually know how to be kind to other people. Also you are supposed to be an international university? Why would you get mad if someone doesn’t speak italian? Get over yourselves.

Davide Finazzi

I got my bachelor's degree in electronic engineering here and I can just say that I am not suggesting this uni to anyone, in general any uni in Italy. I am currently pursuing a master's program abroad and it's embarassing the preparation level I have compared to my classmates coming from other foreign universities. I spent three years just studying theory with a minimum amount of practice and this cannot give you any real experience. There are so many courses in my bachelor's that are completely useless if you wanna pursue a career on a particular path other than the theoretical one suggested by polimi. There should be a wider syllabus so that anyone can choose which track to follow. I wish I had know all of this before enrolling to polimi, if I had chosen a university abroad since the very beginning, my experience would be much more advance by now. So if you are Italian and you have no choice but to choose Polimi I am very sorry for you and I hope you'll have the opportunity to go for an Erasmus experience as I did. On the other hand if you are an international student, please don't come here, choose wisely, there are many more better realities abroad.

Thomas Tsai

This school needs to reevaluate its hiring choices. It hired a contract instructor that, ostensibly during protected classroom instruction time over video conference, proceeded to go on a near 3-minute tangent about a topic completely unrelated to comparative Iranian or Chinese architecture --- which was supposed to be the topic at hand. He also spoke in a language that does not appear to be accepted lingua franca for the school and the course --- during what appears to be classroom instruction time. From these two points alone, this instructor does not meet acceptable teaching standards for higher education and really should be let go.