Master in editoria - i livello

Master
1st level vocational master
A.Y. 2025/2026
Study area
Humanities
1st level vocational master
72
ECTS
1
Year
17-11-2025
Language
Italian
Master Coordinator
This Vocational Master aims to equip students with the tools they need to enter the complex and multi-faceted world of publishing. The goal is to train publishing professionals with a complete critical awareness of the publishing system. We aim to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and tools in both theory and practice to allow them to join the highest ranks of the field.

The Vocational Master in Publishing will consist of 200 hours (30 CTUs) of face-to-face teaching and 300 hours (25 CTUs) of other forms of training. To complete the programme, students must take a 480 hours (12 CTUs) of internship and a final examination (5 ECTS) consisting of a thesis. A total of 72 CFUs are awarded for the vocational master.

Teaching is structured as follows:

-The publishing world
-Publishing houses, divisions, and departments
-The work of publishing
-The business of publishing
-Publishing and distribution agreements. Print and digital
-Digital publishing for education
-Copywriting for the web
-Designing new publishing products
-Editing
-Emerging tools in editing
-Production processes to create new digital products
-Graphic design for publishing: print and digital
-Marketing and communication
-Conception and design of a complex publishing product

The tuition fee for participants will be Euro 5,516.00. Three scholarships are available (financed by Fondazione Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Editore, by the Italian Publishers Association - AIE and by the Confucius Institute of the University of Milan) of an amount of euro 3,000.00 each. For more information on the admission procedures, please consult the call for application. For further information on the bibliography for the selection tests, please visit the dedicated page on the Fondazione Mondadori website https://www.fondazionemondadori.it/selezioni/.
To be eligible for the programme, students must hold a degree in any of the following classes under former Ministerial Decree no. 270/2004: L-1 Cultural heritage; L-3 Visual arts, music, performing arts and fashion studies; L-4 Industrial design; L-5 Philosophy; L-6 Geography; L-10 Humanities; L-11 Modern languages and civilisations; L-12 Linguistic mediation; L-13 Biology; L-14 Legal services; L-16 Administration; L-18 Business administration; L-19 Education and training; L-20 Communication studies; L-24 Psychology; L-27 Chemistry; L-30 Physics; L-31 Computer Science; L-32 Natural Sciences; L-33 Economics; L-35 Mathematics; L-36 Political science and International relations; L-40 Sociology; L-42 History; L-43 Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage; LMG-01 Law.
Employment opportunities for those earning this Vocational Master include all professional opportunities within the publishing world, from publishing houses to in-house publishing departments, in both the public and private sector. Specific fields include editorial staff, PR, copyright management, sales, marketing, digital, and technical departments.

Courses list

Open sessions
Courses or activities Professor(s) ECTS Total hours Language
Compulsory
Conception and Design of a Complex Publishing Product
4 48 Italian
Copywriting for the Web
2 24 Italian
Designing New Publishing Products
2 24 Italian
Digital Publishing for Education
2 24 Italian
Editing
4 48 Italian
Emerging Tools in Editing
3 36 Italian
Final Examination
5 Italian
Graphic Design for Publishing: Print and Digital
2 24 Italian
Marketing and Communication
2 24 Italian
Production Processes to Create New Digital Products
2 24 Italian
Publishing and Distribution Agreements. Print and Digital
2 24 Italian
Publishing Houses, Divisions, and Departments
6 40 Italian
The Business of Publishing
6 40 Italian
The Publishing World 9 60 Italian
The Work of Publishing
9 60 Italian
Training Internship
12 480 Italian

Enrolment

Call for applications

The call for applications is being finalized. Please refer to the call, once it is available, for admission test dates and contents, and how to register.

Application for admission: application deadlines will be published shortly.

The call for applications is being finalized