Services and costWhat admission to Italy costs Every price up front
Below: the price of one application and the support plans. Each currency has its own price, not converted at a rate.
- Applying to a university
- $490 per university
- Several universities
- up to 15% off
- In our catalogue
- 64 universities
Describe your profile, goal and timing. We'll tell you how much work it is and what it costs.
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Applying to one university
We prepare the documents, file the application and answer the admissions office until the decision. The more universities in one order, the less each one costs.
- −5%3–4 universities
- −10%5–9 universities
- −15%10 or more
Near the deadline the price of our work rises: by 25% from 21 days before the intake closes and by 50% from 7 days.
What applying includes
- We check your chances and the dates before you pay
- We put together the documents for each university
- We fill in the form and submit the application
- We answer the admissions office and tell you the decision
The university's own fee you pay separately, on its invoice, with no mark-up from us.
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Support plans for admission to Italy
The price is fixed in the contract and does not change as the work goes on. The university's fee, translations and state fees are paid separately, with no mark-up from us.
Assessment and plan
You file, on our calendar
Paid when the contract is signed
- An assessment of your profile: which programmes you actually qualify for, and in which language
- Every deadline in one calendar: Universitaly, recognition of the diploma, the entrance exam, ISEE, DSU, the visa
- The university's answer in writing on whether it needs a Declaration of Value or a CIMEA statement will do
- A document list per authority, with what has to be legalised and where
Full handling
We file, you sign
40% at the contract, 30% after the offer, 30% after the visa
- Everything in the assessment and plan
- Pre-enrolment on Universitaly and the correspondence with universities
- Registration for IMAT or TOLC, the preparation plan, and your university preferences ordered against the official cut-offs of previous years
- ISEE parificato assembled, legalised and filed on time
- The DSU application by your region's deadline
- The type D visa file, to your consulate's requirements
With support on the ground
We file, and someone meets you there
40% at the contract, 30% after the offer, 30% after the visa
- Everything in full handling
- What cannot be done remotely: the residence permit application in the first eight working days, the codice fiscale, registration with the health service
- Finding accommodation, with the contract checked before you transfer any money
- We have a representative in Italy — someone living and studying in the country
Premium
A senior curator runs everything
40% at the contract, 30% after the offer, 30% after the visa
- Everything in Full service
- Up to 12 programmes, including the country's strongest universities
- Applications for every scholarship that fits your profile
- A senior curator and a weekly call
- Mock interviews
- Six months of support after arrival, a weekly report to your parents
No more than 3 clients per intake: each takes about 100 hours of a senior curator. The exact price depends on the number of programmes and scholarships.
Discuss this planThe admission plan is paid when the contract is signed. The other plans in three steps: 40% at the contract, 30% after the offer, 30% after the visa. Terms and the guarantee are in the public offer.
Global
For those applying to several countries at the same time who want to choose the best offer. A team runs it: a senior strategist and a separate curator for each country.
40% at the contract, 30% after the first offer, 30% after the visa
No more than 5 clients per intake: several people work on each one.
Discuss the Global plan- A senior strategist: which countries and universities, in what order to apply, how to fit the deadlines together
- A separate curator for each country who knows how applying works there
- Up to 30 programmes across all countries
- Applications for every scholarship that fits, in each country
- One calendar of deadlines, a weekly call, reports to your parents
- Mock interviews for each programme
- Comparing offers: cost of study and living, scholarships, prospects
- Visa, housing and insurance in the country you choose
- A year of support after you arrive
How to pay less
Discounts for things that save us time and advertising. They add up, but together never take more than 15% off a plan.
Pay in full up front
If you pay for the plan in one payment when you sign, not in parts.
Bring a friend
Your friend gets −5% on their first service, and you get −20% on any next payment, for yourself or your family. Your 20% doesn't add to other discounts.
Get your linkApplying as two
A brother or sister, a friend, a couple: both sign for plans in the same month. For the same pair it does not add to the referral discount.
A video story after enrolment
Tell how you got in, on video, for our site and social media. The refund is paid under the agreement, and the video says you received it.
Discounts apply to our work only: the university's fee, translations and state fees are paid in full. Together with the discount for several universities in the basket, never more than 20%. The terms are in the public offer, section 15.
What we take on
- 01
The language of the programme decides everything after it
Italian or English: it determines the certificate, the entrance exam and the deadlines. English-taught degrees usually ask for B2 on IELTS or TOEFL; Italian-taught ones for B2 CILS or CELI. Choosing the language after choosing the university means starting over.
- 02
Pre-enrolment on Universitaly
For non-EU applicants, pre-enrolment is done only through the state Universitaly portal. Without it the consulate will not accept a visa application — this is the entrance to the procedure, not a formality. The deadline is set each academic year and falls earlier than people expect.
- 03
Recognition of the diploma: CIMEA or Declaration of Value
The university itself states whether it requires a Declaration of Value — issued by the Italian consulate where the qualification was obtained — or whether a CIMEA statement of comparability will do. We establish this with the university in writing, because the answer changes the whole order of the paperwork.
- 04
The entrance examination
Medicine in English means IMAT, the national test sat on a single day across the country. Many bachelor's degrees use the TOLC run by the CISIA consortium. Private universities such as Bocconi select on their own terms. We register you, build the preparation plan and order your university preferences against the official cut-offs of previous years.
- 05
ISEE parificato — what the degree will actually cost you
Fees at a state university are calculated from family income. If the ISEE parificato is not filed, the university places the student in the highest band automatically — the single most expensive mistake in the Italian procedure. We assemble the income documents, have them legalised and file them on time.
- 06
DSU — the regional scholarship
The largest part of the support is regional rather than national: a cash grant, the student canteen, subsidised housing and a fee waiver. Italy has no single deadline — each region sets its own, and missing it means losing precisely this, the main part.
- 07
The type D visa and preparing to move
A national type D "studio" visa. We assemble the file to the requirements of your particular consulate, with proof of accommodation, insurance and financial guarantees. This is also where the budget is worked out for the city you are actually going to.
- 08
Permesso di soggiorno and the first weeks
Within eight working days of arrival the residence permit application must be submitted to the local police headquarters — through the post office or the support desk at the institution itself. Then the codice fiscale, enrolment and health insurance. We stay reachable through this stage.
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