ItalyITVerified ProgramsUniversity of Parma runs one English-taught health program in Piacenza, in medicine. No flat annual fee is confirmed here for 2026-27 yet.
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ItalyParma's English medicine is taught at Piacenza, and this is the campus-versus-name case that runs the other way: Piacenza is not a saving. At about €9,800 a year it is eighth of the fifteen Italian locations here, more expensive to live in than Bari, Bergamo or either Sicilian city. Checking the campus matters; assuming the satellite is cheaper does not follow.
This catalog records the city for Parma's English medicine as Piacenza, about sixty kilometres away in the same region. On this site's presets Piacenza runs €360 a month for housing and €620 for other living costs — roughly €9,800 a year on the ten-month basis used here, or €58,800 across six years, rated Medium confidence.
That is the useful correction to a pattern this profile set has now seen five times. Padua teaches at Venice, Milano-Bicocca at Bergamo, Nicolaus Copernicus at Bydgoszcz, Turin at Orbassano, and Parma at Piacenza. At Milano-Bicocca the relocation is worth €21,000 across six years because Bergamo is far cheaper than Milan. Here it is worth nothing of the kind: Piacenza sits above the Italian middle, €1,000 a year more than Catania and €1,300 more than Messina.
So the rule is to check where a program is actually taught, not to assume that a campus outside the headline city is the cheap option. Both directions occur, and the university name tells you neither.
The most recently published structure is €156 as a mandatory fixed charge — €140 regional tax plus €16 stamp duty — plus an ISEE or ISEE-parificato or country-band contribution under the University of Parma fee regulation, with the final total varying by income and country. These are 2025-2026 figures and are not confirmed for 2026-2027.
As at Bari, the operative phrase is the university's own fee regulation. The €156 is national; everything above it is set locally, which is why the Italian publics in this catalog produce such different published detail from identical national rules — Milan's explicit bands, Padua's single ceiling, Siena's confirmed range, Bologna's silence.
ISEE-parificato remains the mechanism worth chasing. It is the assessment route for a household whose income is not Italian, and obtaining it is usually a bigger financial decision than choosing between two Italian universities.
Admission is by the national English-language medical admission procedure with Universitaly pre-enrolment for non-EU applicants. The most recent published 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, with registration through the Universitaly portal.
The degree is a six-year Laurea Magistrale LM-41 from the Department of Medicine and Surgery. Italian is required for clinical communication even though the degree is taught in English.
Applicants who have checked that Piacenza rather than Parma is where the six years happen, and who are choosing on faculty and fee regulation rather than expecting a satellite campus to be cheap.
The University of Parma is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools as school F0000745. 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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