The Politecnico di Milano University Assessment Commission is a structure which directly supports the Rector.

This body conducts assessments of the effectiveness and efficiency of the activities carried out by the university, controlling the correct use of public resources, the productivity of research and didactics as well as the impartiality and good performance of the administrative action with appropriate means.

In more specific terms, the issues which it may be called upon to address include:

• analyzing the educational products and their coherence with the needs of the industrial system and services
• analyzing the research activities, both basic and applied
• assessing the decentralizing policies of the university
• analyzing the quality of the infrastructure system (technological, administrative, physical)
• assessing the "industrial policy" of the university: consortia, associations, holdings, activations of new entrepreneurial initiatives, etc.
• developing management policies

The University Assessment Commission, for the four-year 2011/2016 term, is composed of the following professors and external experts with specific expertise in the management of public administrations, in general problems of the national university system and the interactions between the Politecnico and the industrial system:

From November 2012, the Commission is integrated with the presence of a student, Mr. Maurizio Ferrari, student representative within the Joint Committee of the Schools of Engineering.

The University Assessment Commission relies on the Assessment Commission Team composed by

 Paola Bertoli   
Paola Butelli
Devan Maggi
Massimiliano Orsi
Manuela Taverna

In accordance with the provisions set forth by Law n. 370 of 19 October 1999, University Assessment Committees are entrusted with duty of acquiring the students’ opinion on the quality of the didactics and draw up a report to transmit to the Ministry of the University and Research every year.

The University Assessment Committee essentially works as an integrator and reader of information; for this purpose, it may access "all information" whatsoever available in the university and, in particular, to the information systems concerning the University Didactics Coordinating Oversight Body, to the Analysis of the Scientific Credentials of the Departments and to the Management Control Systems.