A lot of things happened in real life at the same time and I wasn't able to work on this for awhile. When I came back to it the entire program had changed and all of the work I put in up until that point went up in smoke.
Overall, the change was the better. The ENEB-style essays for each unit were replaced with exams. This is trading one kind of busy work for another, but the new busy work bother me much less. The real improvement came with the new thesis/final project. It went from being a collection of short essays no different from typical ENEB courses with no real-world applicability to being a practical capstone designing and implementing big data solutions for a mid-size enterprise. At 12,000 words it still too short to use as s research sample to enter most doctoral programs, but if asked to submit it I would not be embarrassed by it. The comprehensive exam was eliminated, with unit exams seemingly meeting whatever objective the comprehensive exam was supposed to fulfill.
When getting some clarification on capstone expectations from the marketing department (marketing was administering the Big Data degree) they mentioned they had to finish grading it by course completion date, rather than submitting by that date as one might expect. Due to the possibility of ENEB gonna ENEB at the worst possible time I requested the one-time 3 month extension that was promised in the sales letter. That needs to be sent to academy, because of course it does.
Academy acted as though that was not part of the contract by promising it in the sales letter and said Unimarconi does not allow extensions. An hour later ENEB sent me an automated email saying my deadline was coming up and I could have an extension if I paid the tuition fee again.

But I was also told my deadline was 2 days beyond what I thought and I only had to submit by deadline, not have it graded. I'm assuming because the 9 months was calculated as a specific number of days rather than 9 exact calendar months.
In the interest of fairness I should note that communication has been DRASTICALLY improved since I did my first 2 degrees with ENEB. Whether it's because of the higher price tag on this degree or not I can't say, but these responses came no later than the next business day.
Getting to a point of being ready to submit took longer than I anticipated and I submitted 4 days before my deadline. It takes more than 3 days for it to be graded - and I FAILED with a 4/10?!?!?!?!? And ENEB didn't send me an email to alert to me something this important?!?!?!? I only saw it because I was constantly checking the campus site for status updates.
Upon looking at the feedback it was obviously graded an incompetent clanker. Of the 13 criticisms it had, 2.5 were fair. Half of one of the complaints was that "exhaustive depth" was expected, which would push the length to 40,000+ words. The other complaints claimed I did not meet requirements the AI hallucinated, said I should have done things I already did and one demonstrated that the AI did not know the difference between Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Server. Ironically, I cited 2 journal articles I didn't notice that I forgot to add to the bibliography until a few hours after I submitted and that went undetected, because of course it did. No time to bitch it and hope someone sees it in time so I'm just going to have to humor the clanker and do all of this right now. lfg.flac Watch it say the thing is too long after I make the additions it requested.
I spent the next 10 hours writing another 4000 words and went to submit the changes...and my course expired a full day before academy just told me it would expire in writing. Now I'm really

and sent an email to marketing pointing out I was told I had one more day and the grading appeared to be done by an incompetent AI, with detailed reasoning for the exceptions I took to the AI's explanations for the grade.
Before lunchtime in Spain the next day it was manually reviewed. The response seemed to dismiss some of my claims against the AI (potentially because marketing people are generally not IT people), but my grade on the final project was changed to 9.4. My overall GPA on the degree would convert to 3.9 on a 4 scale so it's not worth starting a fight over it and damaging the relationship. I thank marketing for the assistance and ask when I can expect to receive the degree, which goes to the diplomas email address. Fine.
I email diplomas asking when I can expect to receive the degree. No response from diplomas yet, but I got an automated email trying to sell me a physical diploma for $290 or a physical diploma with a translation and apostille for $640. As I established earlier, the apostille is no big deal in America and you can get it for minimal cost and a trip to a Secretary of State office if you need it. If I apply to something that wants a physical copy in the future it will be cheaper to buy a color laser printer and a box of parchment. I was promised digital copies of the degree and transcript in Italian and English in the sales letter, which is all I need.
The massive tuition hike at GCAS has made acceptance of the Unimarconi degree a moot point. 6000EUR was a tempting price for the degree. The change to that being billed per year for 3+ years combined with the degree having the terrible generalist name of Natural, Mathematical and Computational Sciences destroys the value proposition completely.