Study medicine in Italy International medical schools

Students must Qualify in IMAT in order to get an admission in Medicine in ITALY

Since 2009, Italian public universities have been opening English-language MD programs. More than 12 public medical schools offer English-taught MBBS degrees. These are the universities of Bari, Bologna, Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Messina, Milan, Milan-Bicocca, Naples Federico II, Padua, Pavia, Rome La Sapienza, Rome Tor Vergata, and Turin. These English-language medical schools are among the most internationally diverse, academically rigorous, and inexpensive in the world, and are excellent preparation for residency, research, and clinical work in Europe and beyond.

With subsidized tuition fees that range between 200 and 4000 euros per year for European as well as non-Europeans, obtaining a Western-European-level medical education has never been so accessible.

Minimum IMAT admission scores

There are huge differences in how difficult it can be to enter one Italian medical school compared to another. The difference in competition levels between each university is large, making it so that with the same IMAT score you can be sure to get into one medical school yet not even scratch the bare minimum passing threshold for another. So choosing the right medical schools can make the difference between getting in or having to skip a year.

One thing you must know before sending in your application is how competitive the universities you have chosen are, especially for non-EU students. There is no fixed IMAT passing score, because it all depends on how many students apply to the same university as you, how many places the university offers and how well the candidates perform on the IMAT.

What follows from this is that, firstly, you cannot foresee what the exact minimum IMAT entry score for each med-school will be next year, because it always changes as a function of these factors. Secondly, with the same IMAT score, you may or may not pass depending on which university you chose. But we’ll say more about this later.