Università Bocconi was established in Milan in 1902, with a generous endowment from Ferdinando Bocconi, a wealthy merchant. Named for his lost son, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi became the first Italian institution of higher education to grant a degree in economics.

Today, Bocconi is a private research university of international standing in business, economics, and law. Its research projects are funded by national and supranational institutions. By virtue of being a major node in the European and global network of business and economics universities, Bocconi exchanges faculty and cooperates on large projects with like-minded European and American universities and business schools. Bocconi has close relations with major corporations and international agencies, as well as their managers and officials, and constantly interacts with the business and economic environment to assess new issues, implement new techniques, and start new research endeavors.

Università Bocconi has an Undergraduate School, a Graduate School, a School of Law and a PhD School while SDA Bocconi School of Management, founded in 1971, takes care of the post-experience management education.

Bocconi grants Bachelor, Master of Science, and PhD degrees in Management, Economics, Law and other disciplines. It also offers a number of post-experience programs, and administers hundreds of advanced courses to managers and professionals in all realms of private and public management.

The Università Bocconi through the national contract between CRUI and IEEE has a limited open access agreement with IEEE that enables researchers to publish articles as open access without open access fees in IEEE hybrid journals. The agreement applies to all original research articles accepted for publication between 1 November 2025 and December 31, 2027. To benefit from this agreement, the corresponding author has to be affiliated with Università Bocconi. Please use the correct institution name and your institutional email address during submission. It is recommended for authors to select the CC BY 4.0 license. The open access funding request will be approved by an administrator in the library.
Overlength page charges or color fees are not covered by the agreement and will be charged to authors.