University of Naples Federico II

Two Naples programs, one difference

Federico II and the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli both teach medicine in English in Naples. Both run six years to a Laurea Magistrale LM-41 from a School of Medicine. Both admit through the national English-language medical admission procedure with Universitaly pre-enrolment. Both require Italian for clinical communication. Both carry the same most recently published €156 fixed charge, and neither is confirmed for 2026-2027.

The living-cost figure is identical too, because it is the same city: about €390 a month for housing and €610 for other living costs on this site's presets, roughly €10,000 a year on the ten-month basis used here, or €60,000 across six years, rated High confidence. Naples sits tenth of the fifteen Italian locations in this catalog — above Bari and the Sicilian cities, below Rome, Bologna and Milan.

So the choice between them is not a cost choice, and anyone presenting it as one is inventing a difference. It is a choice between two faculties and two fee regulations.

Assessed on foreign income, not just banded

Federico II's record states that non-EU students without an Italian ISEE are assessed under the university's foreign-income and country rules, and that no single total applies to all students.

That wording is worth separating from the alternatives. Turin's record names a GDP or country band. Marche's says applicants without ISEE use the published country classification. Both describe a fallback keyed to where you are from. Federico II names foreign income alongside country, which suggests a route where an overseas household's actual means can enter the calculation rather than being replaced by a national average.

That is a difference worth asking about directly rather than concluding from the phrasing, because it is exactly the kind of distinction that decides an Italian tuition bill. If you cannot obtain an ISEE-parificato, a university that will look at your real income is a materially different proposition from one that will not.

The published amounts are the same in both cases: a most recently published €156 fixed charge of €140 regional tax plus €16 stamp duty, from the 2025-2026 cycle, plus a contribution nobody publishes as a single number.

The national route, and its September answer

The most recent published 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. The 2026-2027 call is due to be published by 31 August 2026 under a Ministry of University and Research notice of 3 July 2026.

Non-EU applicants requiring a visa complete Universitaly pre-enrolment and obtain recognition, legalisation and translation of the school credential. None of that fits inside the fortnight between the call opening and closing, which is the reason Italian public applications fail more often on paperwork than on the test.