University of Calabria
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The University of Calabria, known as UNICAL, is a public university in southern Italy. It was established by a 1968 law and opened in 1972. Its campus is in Arcavacata, part of Rende, a few kilometres from Cosenza. It has about 35,000 students, 800 teaching and research staff and about 700 administrative staff.
UNICAL has 14 departments, with a strong engineering side: civil, environmental, mechanical and energy, and computer and electronic engineering. It also covers mathematics and computer science, physics, chemistry, pharmacy, economics and finance, law, political science and the humanities. Since 2024 it has run a Medicine and Surgery degree focused on digital technologies, taught in Crotone with the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro. Mechanical engineering students have built racing cars in the Reparto Corse team since 2005.
The campus was designed by the architect Vittorio Gregotti. It covers about 200 hectares of hills: cube-shaped buildings up to 30 metres tall line a two-kilometre bridge across the Crati valley. Student residences stand at the foot of the campus, so you can live and study in one place. Before you apply, check the language of your programme and, for medicine, the city where it is taught.
Budget for the whole degree
- Tuition per year
- we work it out for your programme
- Living costs per year
- from €10,180
- Living, bachelor's, usually 3 years
- from €30,540
- Living, master's, usually 2 years
- from €20,360
- Our application to this university, one-off
- $529
The totals leave out our work, insurance, the visa, flights, the application fee and the university's one-off charges. These depend on your citizenship and programme.
Living costs: the minimum checked when a student visa is issued, 2026/27. What you actually spend depends on the city and can be higher.
Terms depend on the university, programme and intake year. Amounts checked: 2 November 2026
- University application fee
- confirmed when we apply
- Applying through UNIPROFI
- $529
- Support
- $3,090
- Full service
- $4,490
The fee goes to the university directly, with no mark-up.
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