There are 2487 applications for admission to the 2024/2025 academic year for SUPSI degree programs offered in Ticino, compared to 2304 registered in the same period last year. Among the positive indications that can be drawn from reading the data is the keen interest in the three most recent degree programs inaugurated between 2019 and 2024: the Bachelor in Leisure management marks a +13 percent compared to last year, the Bachelor in Data Science and Artificial intelligence a +54 percent, while 23 applications were submitted for the new Master in Teaching Physical Education for Secondary I level.

Among disciplinary areas, significant increases in enrollments mark the study directions related to health care (+20 percent) and design (+21 percent).

New enrollments, upward trend confirmed.
Applications for admission were followed by an evaluation process that determined the suitability of the dossiers of applicants and candidates and made it possible to draw up rankings that are useful in particular for selecting female students of closed or programmed numbered educational paths. A total of 1287 freshmen were admitted who will follow the professionalizing university education offered in Ticino in SUPSI's four departments.

Number of new matriculations aggregated by subject area and for Bachelor, Master and Diploma courses offered by SUPSI Departments in Ticino. N.B.: The figure for the health area 2023 includes the 30 new matriculations of the Master's in Nursing, previously proposed in 2018.

Over six thousand students throughout Switzerland.
Added to the numbers mentioned above are those of the three SUPSI-affiliated Schools (Accademia Teatro Dimitri, Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana – University of Music, Fernfachhochschule Schweiz) and the Bachelor in Physiotherapie offered at the Landquart site.
 
In this new academic year, freshmen for all SUPSI thus rise to 2146, up 5 percent from 2023/2024. A total of 6031 students will attend one of the 32 Bachelor's degrees, 19 Master's degrees, and the Diploma, offered full-time, part-time, and in parallel mode with professional activity, 3693 of them in the four Departments in Ticino.

Professional outlets remain the main motivation in choosing SUPSI
Among the main motivations in choosing to enroll at SUPSI, nearly three out of four applicants (74%) indicate professional outlets. This is followed by orientation to practice (49 percent), the field of study (44 percent), the school's reputation (37 percent), the university degree (28 percent) and the possibility of combining study with a professional activity and other commitments (23 percent).

These figures confirm the interest in the professionalizing university education offered by SUPSI, its orientation towards practice and its link with the world of work, as well as its flexible educational offerings that make it possible to reconcile studies with professional, family and life needs.