Admission of international students - How to apply

To be eligible for admission to a bachelor’s or a single-cycle degree, you need a minimum 12-year school record.

If you have been awarded a final diploma after a shorter programme of study (i.e. less than 12 years), in order to become eligible you must:

• have attended at least 1 (in case of 11 years of schooling) or 2 (in case of 10 years of schooling) years of academic studies and passed all the exams

OR

• have obtained a post-secondary qualification  at a non-University higher education institution, certifying the additional one or two years of education

OR

• have successfully completed one or two year preparatory courses (Foundation courses) held at an Italian university to compensate for the missing years of schooling.

Foundation courses can also be used to fill other additional requirements that are necessary to access the programmes, but they cannot replace a missing upper secondary school diploma.

The pre-school year can be counted in the 12 years of schooling if it is officially recognised as an integral part of the school curriculum at national level, provided that attendance is compulsory and includes teaching the language of the country (reading and writing) and the basic elements of arithmetic.

If in the country where you obtained/are going to obtain your qualification an entrance exam is required to access university (e.g. Selectividad in Spain, Prova de Aferiçao o Prova Geral de Acesso ao Ensino Superior in Portogallo, Vestibular o Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio in Brazil, Gao Kao in China), you must also provide a certificate which states that you have passed said test.

As an alternative to passing the university entrance exam (where required), you must:

• have attended an additional one (in case of 12 years of schooling) or two (in case of 11 years of schooling) years of academic studies in another country and/or different foreign system and passed all the exams

OR

• have obtained an official Italian or foreign post-secondary qualification at a non-University higher education institution in a subject related to the chosen course with a minimum duration of one or two years

OR

• have successfully completed Foundation courses held at an Italian University.

These additional certificates only allow enrolment to the first year and cannot be further evaluated for shortening of your degree programme.

Foreign qualifications eligible for admission to the courses

You can refer to our country-based list of qualifications in order to verify whether your entry qualification is suitable to access the degree programme(s) you are interested in.

To be eligible for admission to a Master’s degree, you will need a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent foreign qualification with specific curricular requirements obtained from a higher education institution accredited according to the national educational accreditation system of the country where it is located.

Should your study title be issued by two or more universities (e.g. the awarding and the teaching institutions are not the same and pertain to different national education systems), each institution must be accredited according to the national educational accreditation system of the country where it is located.

Foreign qualifications eligible for admission to the courses

You can refer to our country-based list of qualifications in order to verify whether your entry qualification is suitable to access the degree programme(s) you are interested in.

• English-taught degree programmes: please check the application procedures and course factsheets for detailed information. In order to submit your application (except for our single-cycle degree programme in Medicine and Surgery), please go to apply.unipd.it

   

• Italian-taught degree programmes: applications dates and deadlines vary according to the programme. Please check the application procedures here.

Please note that courses at the University of Padua start at the end of September/beginning of October. Straight enrolment to the second semester is not available.