ItalyITVerified ProgramsUniversity of Messina runs one English-taught health program in Messina, in medicine. No flat annual fee is confirmed here for 2026-27 yet.
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ItalyMessina is the cheapest place to live of the fifteen Italian locations on this site — about €8,500 a year in housing and living, €51,000 across a six-year degree. Since Italian public tuition is a fixed €156 charge plus an income-assessed contribution, that makes Messina the cheapest Italian public medicine option overall, by the only measure that separates them.
On this site's cost presets Messina runs €280 a month for housing and €570 for other living costs — about €8,500 a year on the ten-month study-year basis used here, or €51,000 across six years. Nothing else in Italy on this list comes in lower; Ancona and Catania are next at €8,800.
Against the top of the Italian range that is a substantial gap. Milan runs about €12,600 a year, so a six-year degree in Messina costs roughly €24,600 less to live through than the same degree in Milan — which, as the Marche profile sets out, is close to the entire six-year value of Milan's published maximum tuition contribution.
The preset carries a Medium source-confidence rating, which is worth saying plainly: the four cheapest Italian cities here are all rated Medium, while Bergamo, Bari, Naples, Rome, Bologna and Milan are rated High. That does not make the cheap figures wrong, but it does mean they are the ones to verify locally before a decision rests on them.
The most recently published fee structure is €156 as a mandatory fixed charge — €140 regional tax plus €16 stamp duty — plus the all-inclusive contribution calculated from ISEE or equivalent income, with non-EU applicants who have no ISEE assessed under the published country classification. Those are 2025-2026 figures and are not confirmed for 2026-2027.
Our record states directly that final tuition is not one fixed amount. The same caution applies here as at every Italian public: the €156 is a stamp duty and a regional tax, not tuition, and anyone quoting it as an annual price is quoting the wrong number.
Admission is by the national English-language medical admission procedure with Universitaly pre-enrolment for non-EU applicants. The most recent cycle opened 26 August 2025, closed 9 September 2025 at 15:00 CEST, and tested 17 September 2025 with 60 multiple-choice questions in 100 minutes. The 2026-2027 call is due to be published by 31 August 2026.
That fortnight between the call opening and closing is why recognition, legalisation, translation and pre-enrolment have to be complete beforehand. There is no version of the Italian public route where those are started after the call appears.
The degree is a six-year Laurea Magistrale LM-41 from the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Italian is required for clinical communication even though the degree is taught in English.
Applicants who have understood that at an Italian public the city is the cost, who want the lowest six-year living total in the country, and who will verify Messina's Medium-confidence housing figures locally before committing.
The University of Messina is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools as school F0000926. The ECFMG Sponsor Note was present with the graduation-year field including Current on the audit date, and the Canada sponsor note was present with a pass at school level for the MCC check, verified on 2026-06-11. Confirm the exact issued diploma title against the ECFMG Reference Guide for Medical Education Credentials before enrolment. This is what the school-level evidence showed and is not a guarantee of certification, residency, registration, or licensure.
Written from the verified catalog and the official sources linked on this page. Sources last checked 2026-06-11; profile updated 2026-08-11. Approver: EuroMedGuide AI editorial pipeline. Figures quoted here are gated against the catalog by npm run validate:guide-stats.
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