University of Bologna

Why there is no annual figure here

Bologna's confirmed 2026-2027 tuition entry reads: €157.04 mandatory first instalment and fixed charges, plus an all-inclusive contribution calculated from ISEE or an equivalent assessment of economic status. Published payment dates for the cycle are 24 September 2026, 18 December 2026 and 15 March 2027. The final total varies by income and by exemptions.

That is why Bologna carries no ranking figure on this site while Humanitas and Campus Bio-Medico do. Their fees are flat and comparable — €23,206 and €19,000 respectively, both verified. A number that depends on a household income assessment cannot be placed in a league table without inventing the part that matters, so we leave it out rather than quote €157 as though you could budget against it.

The €156 pattern across Italian public universities

Bologna is not unusual here. Fourteen Italian public medicine programs in this catalog carry a headline fee of roughly €146 to €205, and the underlying records describe the same structure each time: a mandatory fixed charge — typically €140 regional tax plus €16 stamp duty — followed by an income-assessed contribution set by the individual university. Of those, only Bologna and the University of Milan are confirmed for the 2026-2027 cycle; the rest are carried as most recently published and are not confirmed.

So when a comparison site lists Italian public medicine at €156 a year and Hungarian medicine at €15,800, it is not comparing two prices. It is comparing a stamp duty to a tuition fee. Italy may still be substantially cheaper for a lower-income household — that is what the ISEE system is designed to do — but the honest answer is that you cannot know your Italian number until you are assessed.

Getting in is the harder gate

Selection runs through the national admission procedure for English-taught medicine, plus Universitaly pre-enrolment for non-EU applicants — two separate processes that both have to be completed. The catalog records the 2026-2027 international-student procedures as published, but notes that the national English-medicine call and seat table for 2026-2027 must be checked when released, and that the national test dates were not officially published as of the audit.

This is the real constraint on Italy. The seats are allocated by a national competitive process against a published seat table, so the question is not whether you can afford Bologna but whether you place high enough on a national ranking to be offered a seat there. Italian is required for clinical communication even though the degree is taught in English.

Italy is the largest English-taught medicine cluster in this catalog outside the United Kingdom — 22 programs across 20 universities — and the great majority of them are public institutions running exactly this structure.