What this university is, in practice
The name says Milan. The teaching is in Bergamo, and that single fact is worth about €21,000 across a six-year degree: Bergamo runs roughly €9,100 a year in housing and living on this site's presets, against €12,600 in Milan. It is the largest saving in this catalog produced by nothing but where a program is actually delivered.
A Milan university at Bergamo prices
This catalog records the city for Milano-Bicocca's English medicine as Bergamo. On this site's cost presets Bergamo is €320 a month for housing and €590 for other living costs — about €9,100 a year on the ten-month study-year basis used here, rated High confidence — against Milan's €560 and €700, about €12,600.
That is €3,500 a year, or €21,000 across six years, and it is available without giving up anything the university name implies. Among the fifteen Italian locations on this site, Bergamo ranks fifth cheapest while Milan is joint most expensive.
This is the third program in this profile set where the teaching city differs from the university's name — Padua teaches at its Venice campus, Nicolaus Copernicus in Poland teaches at Bydgoszcz rather than Toruń. It is common enough to be worth checking every time, and here it happens to be worth more than most scholarships.
ISEE-parificato, or the foreign-student band
The most recently published structure is the standard Italian one: €156 as a mandatory fixed charge — €140 regional tax plus €16 stamp duty — plus a Milano-Bicocca all-inclusive contribution calculated from ISEE or ISEE-parificato, or the applicable foreign-student band. Those figures are from the 2025-2026 cycle and are not confirmed for 2026-2027.
ISEE-parificato is the mechanism that matters and the one most applicants have never heard of. It is the assessment route for a household whose income is not Italian; obtain it and you are means-tested, skip it and you fall to a band set by where you are from. Which of those two applies is usually a larger swing than the difference between two universities.
Our record is explicit that the final amount varies by economic position, so no single figure for Milano-Bicocca exists to quote.
The national route, and a September answer
Admission is by the national English-language medical admission procedure with Universitaly pre-enrolment for non-EU applicants. The most recently run cycle opened 26 August 2025, closed 9 September 2025 at 15:00 CEST, and tested on 17 September 2025 with 60 multiple-choice questions in 100 minutes. For 2026-2027 the official call is due by 31 August 2026 under a Ministry of University and Research notice of 3 July 2026.
The degree is a six-year Laurea Magistrale LM-41 from the School of Medicine and Surgery. Italian is required for clinical communication even though the degree is taught in English.
One practical note on the Bergamo saving: it is a saving on housing and daily living, not on travel. If your reason for wanting Milan was the airport and the connections home, price that separately rather than assuming the €21,000 is free.
Who this suits
Applicants who wanted a Milan-area university but not Milan living costs, who will obtain an ISEE-parificato rather than defaulting to a country band, and who have priced travel separately from the €21,000 the campus location saves.
Return-pathway evidence
The University of Milano-Bicocca is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools as school F0002169. 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 records the school-level evidence and does not guarantee 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.