ItalyITVerified ProgramsVita-Salute San Raffaele University runs one English-taught health program in Milan, in medicine. Its confirmed 2026-27 fee is €20,690 a year.
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ItalySan Raffaele closes its applications in the first week of February — the earliest medicine deadline of any Italian program on this site, and earlier than almost anything in the catalog. Non-EU applicants close a day before EU applicants, which is the opposite of what most people assume. Tuition is €20,690 a year, confirmed for 2026-2027.
This is an unusual combination and it is worth being explicit about. The 2026-2027 application timetable is confirmed: applications opened 17 December 2025 at 12:00 CET, EU applicants close 6 February 2026 at 12:00 CET, non-EU applicants close 5 February 2026 at 12:00 CET, and online admission-test sessions run through February and March 2026.
The fee now is too. An official-source audit on 2026-08-12 confirmed €20,690 per academic year for 2026-2027, replacing the prior-year €20,000 this site previously carried. The regional right-to-study tax and a non-refundable admission-test fee apply on top; check the official page for their current amounts, since the €190 and €200 figures recorded here are older references.
The €200 test fee is non-refundable and payable before you know anything about your chances. That is the real cost of an early application here.
Almost every deadline pattern in this catalog runs the other way. Latvia gives visa-requiring non-EU applicants an earlier date than EU applicants because the visa process needs the lead time, and that logic is common. Here the two dates are 5 February for non-EU and 6 February for EU — one day apart, with the non-EU date first.
A single day is not a lot of margin for a mistake, and the failure mode is specific: a non-EU applicant who reads the EU date, or who reads a summary that quotes only one deadline, applies on the sixth and is out. Both deadlines are set at 12:00 CET rather than end of day, which removes another few hours people habitually assume they have.
Italy's English-taught medicine is dominated by public universities running the national admission procedure with an income-assessed contribution. San Raffaele is one of the private alternatives, and it selects through its own entrance test and ranking under its own call rather than through the national seat table.
That is the substantive difference from Bologna or Milan: your result depends on one university's test rather than on a national ranking against every other applicant in the country, and your fee is a flat published figure rather than an assessment of household income. Italian medicine programs with a confirmed, comparable annual fee are still a minority: the two Campus Bio-Medico routes at €19,000, the two Humanitas routes at €23,206, Cattolica at €18,150 and this one at €20,690. Everything else is either an income assessment or a published band.
Non-EU applicants complete Universitaly pre-enrolment and the visa process on top of the university's own application. Italian is required for clinical communication even though the degree is taught in English.
Applicants who decided on Italy early enough to apply in January, who would rather be ranked by one university's test than by a national seat table, and who can accept committing a non-refundable €200 test fee against a fee that has not yet been reconfirmed for the cycle.
San Raffaele is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools as school F0002170. 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, 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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Typical monthly student costs in Milan. Over a 10-month academic year, with €250 of health insurance, that is about €12,850 before tuition.
Monthly housing estimate
€560
Monthly living estimate
€700
Typical monthly total
~€1,260
Basis: Milan, Italy student cost preset (2026-06-11), high confidence. These are planning estimates — rent, housing availability, visa and insurance costs and exchange rates differ, so check housing and the university's own guidance before committing.
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