How can I certify my language proficiency?

(except the Master in Computer Science and the Master in Fruit Science, as all teaching for these masters takes place in English)

There are various ways that you can certify your language proficiency.
One way is to sit and pass the computer-based tests that are organised by the Language Centre of the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano. Your language proficiency can also be certified if you have achieved your secondary school leaving qualifications (A-levels or equivalent) in one of the three teaching languages, or if you have international language certificates recognised by the Language Centre, if you have the bilingual exam administered by the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol (only for German and Italian) or if you have certain university degrees. On the Language Centre's webpages, you can find the complete list of language certificates that are accepted as certification of language proficiency at the various levels. 

If you are a non-EU citizen resident abroad and you are interested in enrolling for an undergraduate (Bachelor) degree course, you will also have to pass an Italian language test that is required by Italian law.

To provide an example:
If you are a student who sat your final secondary school exams (A-levels or equivalent) in a school whose main teaching was English, you can therefore certify your English at the C1 level. In order to enrol for a degree course, you will therefore have to certify your Italian or your German language proficiency.
Just having these languages as a subject at school is NOT enough to certify  proficiency in the languages. You will therefore have to present some kind of language certificate (e.g. the Goethe-Zertifikat B2) or other certificates or qualifications that you can find clicking here, or you will have to come to the  Free University of Bozen/Bolzano to sit a language test that will test your language proficiency at the B2 level in Italian or German.
If you already have some proficiency in the third language (at least at the B1 level) and you don't have a certificate to demonstrate this, it is advisable that you also do the test for that language.  


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