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Studying in Italy

universities
8
courses
112
English-taught
48

StudyPath lists 8 universities in Italy and 112 courses between them, 48 of which are taught in English. The cheapest verified fee is about US$348 a year, at Sapienza. 7 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-09-26.

Filter these 8 universitiesAll 112 courses, cheapest first

What the fee figure leaves out

A published fee is not what you pay

75 courses here, across 7 universities, carry a sourced note about a cost the headline figure does not include — a compulsory contribution, an income-tested scale, an annual increase that applies from year two, a rule about who qualifies. The most widely shared of them:

Politecnico di Milano's Bachelor's (Laurea) tuition is not a flat sticker price — it is an ISEE-based (income-tested) sliding scale that applies to the whole student body, paid in two instalments. For a standard study plan of 46-74 ECTS, the annual fee ranges from a minimum of €157.04 (ISEE up to €22,000) up to a maximum of €3,943.04 (higher ISEE bands),…

“For a standard study plan of between 46 and 74 ECTS and an ISEE of up to € 22,000, the amount is € 157.04 ; for a higher-value ISEE, the amount gradually increases up to a maximum of € 3,943.04 . In particular, for an ISEE between € 22,001 and € 30,000, the amount is calculated with a specific…”

PoliMi · read from Laurea, Laurea Magistrale and Single-cycle programmes | Costs and scholarships | Politecnico di Milano. Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.

What it costs

Annual international tuition, converted to US dollars so the two ends compare. The published figure in its own currency is the authoritative one.

Cheapest

US$348a year

Sapienza

Dearest

US$4,575a year

PoliMi

What it costs to live

Student housing published by the university itself or by the body that runs its halls, cheapest first. Shown in the currency and period each one publishes — not converted, because a converted rent is a worse number than the real one.

How Italy compares with other countries

Ranked against every other country on StudyPath. Countries charge in different currencies, so these figures are converted to US dollars and are approximate; the published figure, in its own currency, is on each university's page.

 ItalyAmong countriesRange across countries
Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything~US$348at Sapienza4th lowest of 64 countries~US$207 (France) to ~US$27,300 (Hong Kong)
Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international studentsNone7 countries have some931 in Germany at most
Cheapest student housing a university publishesfor a year, from the lowest rate on its own site~US$1,900at Padua42nd lowest of 66 countriesFree (Saudi Arabia) to ~US$12,000 (Iceland)
Living costs a student visa requires you to showfor a year, the immigration authority's own figure~US$11,8009th lowest of 19 countries~US$2,200 (South Africa) to ~US$25,900 (Iceland)

Converted to US dollars at the site's exchange rates of 13 Sept 2026. A fee or rent published per term, month or week is scaled to a year, and housing is counted for twelve months of holding the room. The living-cost figure is what an immigration authority requires a student visa applicant to show, taken as a year; the UK's, for example, covers at most nine months, so this overstates it. See student finance for each country's exact wording.

Universities in Italy

Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.