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🇮🇹 92 universities · 2,054,821 students

Italy publishes what university actually costs.

Every Italian university reports its average fees to the Ministry, along with enrolment and its full catalogue of degrees. So you can see what students really pay — and find the 1,240 programmes taught in English.

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State universities

€1,385

median a year for students who pay — €852 averaged over everyone, because lower-income students pay nothing.

Private universities

€7,272

median a year for students who pay — set by each university.

Taught in English

1,240

of 5,995 degree programmes, fully or in part.

Online universities

11

enrol 15% of all students. Shown separately below.

Why every fee here comes as two numbers

State universities charge on a sliding scale tied to family income (the ISEE), and students below the national no-tax threshold are fully exempt. So the Ministry reports two averages per university: what a paying student pays, and what the university collects across everyone enrolled, counting the exempt at zero. Neither is your price. If your family income is low you may pay nothing; if it is high, more than the first figure. Each university publishes a fee calculator — use it before you budget.

Largest universities

Campus universities by enrolment, 2025/2026. Online universities are listed separately.

UniversityStudentsInternationalPaying students average
Università degli studi di Roma La SapienzaRoma · State114,1157.6%€1,460
Università degli studi di BolognaBologna · State85,48410.9%€1,831
Università degli studi di TorinoTorino · State81,1525.5%€1,407
Università degli studi di PadovaPadova · State73,8129%€2,097
Università degli studi di Napoli Federico IINapoli · State72,3432.3%€1,513
Università degli studi di FirenzeFirenze · State57,7288.5%€1,380
Università degli studi di MilanoMilano · State57,6157.6%€2,058
Politecnico di MilanoMilano · State49,14116.9%€2,510
Università degli studi di PalermoPalermo · State46,4252.4%€1,385
Università di PisaPisa · State45,0468%€1,534

Most degrees taught in English

Programmes taught fully or partly in English, 2025.

UniversityIn EnglishAll programmesInternational students
Università degli studi di BolognaBologna8926910.9%
Università degli studi di Roma La SapienzaRoma692997.6%
Università degli studi di PadovaPadova692339%
Politecnico di MilanoMilano528016.9%
Università degli studi di MilanoMilano481707.6%
Politecnico di TorinoTorino366021.8%
Università degli studi di PalermoPalermo351912.4%
Università degli studi di Napoli Federico IINapoli331772.3%

Online universities

Italy's 11 università telematiche teach mostly at a distance and together enrol 302,187 students. Their enrolment isn't comparable with a campus university's, so they are kept out of the tables above.

Every university, by region

All 92institutions with students of their own. Italy's schools for advanced studies — the Scuola Normale and Sant'Anna in Pisa, SISSA, IMT Lucca, the Gran Sasso Science Institute and others — aren't listed: their students are enrolled through partner universities, so the Ministry reports no enrolment for them.

Abruzzo (4)

Aosta Valley (1)

Apulia (5)

Basilicata (1)

Calabria (4)

Campania (9)

Emilia-Romagna (4)

Friuli-Venezia Giulia (2)

Lazio (19)

Liguria (1)

Lombardy (14)

Marche (4)

Molise (1)

Piedmont (4)

Sardinia (2)

Sicily (4)

South Tyrol (Bolzano) (1)

Trentino (Trento) (1)

Tuscany (5)

Umbria (2)

Veneto (4)

What Italy doesn't publish

No entry scores — most degrees admit anyone with a secondary-school diploma, and capped ones run their own tests. No open graduate outcomes — the main survey, AlmaLaurea, isn't open data. And dropout only nationally: 6.5% of students leave after their first year (2024/25, provisional), with no figure per university.

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Source: MIUR, Ufficio Statistica e Studi — Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca open data (Iscritti, Immatricolati, Laureati, Offerta formativa, Contribuzione e interventi 2025), licensed under the Italian Open Data License v2.0.