Required documents for international students

• Valid ID card (Italian, EU citizens and equivalent) / valid passport (non EU citizens)
• A residence permit valid for university enrolment (non EU citizens legally residing in Italy, as per article 39, clause 5, legislative decree July 25, 1998, no. 286 and subsequent modifications and supplements)
• First cycle or integrated university degree obtained after at least 15 years of total schooling, corresponding to EQF-EHEA / EQF 6 level / ISCED 6 level. Remember to submit all pages, including the back of the document if it has any information. The study qualification must be provided with proof of authenticity
• Transcript of records, listing all the exams, marks, hours and/or credits. Remember to submit all the pages, even the back of the document if it contains any kind of information (ex.: grading system). If integrated within the Diploma Supplement, it must list all the exams that lead to the award of the study qualification (even the exams taken during exchange programs). The transcript of records must be provided with proof of authenticity
• Other documents:
  • curriculum Vitae (mandatory)
  • motivation letter in English or Italian (mandatory)
  • Syllabus (not mandatory but it may be useful)
  • declaration of value / statement of comparability CIMEA (not mandatory but useful or may be mandatory if requested by the office)
  • grading system (not mandatory but useful or may be mandatory if requested by the office)

Verify on the program's presentation page if there are any additional requirements under the section Entry qualification, Language requirements and Other requirements of the degree program description.

The Italian education system is a consequential system which provides for access to the next cycle only if you hold the previous qualifications. Therefore, for admission to postgraduate degree program, it is mandatory to have an upper secondary school qualification (art.6 of Ministerial Decree 270/2004). This qualification may be requested at University discretion, especially if the university qualification held belongs to a non-consequential educational system.

A study qualification belonging to the same cycle (e.g.: Master's degree) or further cycle (e.g.: Doctor of Philosophy) cannot be considered alone for admission to a postgraduate degree program ("laurea magistrale"). It is always necessary to submit the first cycle or integrated study qualification along with any intermediate academic qualifications (eg: Associate's degree) and  its study plans.

Should you hold a foreign study qualification obtained after studies mainly carried out in Italy, the recognition, even partial, of this qualification is subject to the accreditation procedure of the institution operating in Italy, as established by Decree n. 214 of April 26 2004, “Regulation containing criteria and procedures for foreign higher education institutions operating in Italy for the purpose of recognising their qualifications (implementation of Article 4 of Law No. 148 of 11 July 2002)”, in implementation of Article VI.5 of the Lisbon Recognition Convention.

If you hold the Diploma Supplement of your university studies, it may be provided as an alternative to both the study qualification and the transcript of records, but it must be issued on the basis of the international model developed through an initiative of the European Commission, the Council of Europe and UNESCO and it must also include the complete transcript of records. It must be signed and/or sealed and provided with proof of authenticity.

In order to enrol, verification of the authenticity of your study documents is required. Below you will find more information on the accepted verification systems, along with a few examples of verification methods specific to some Countries and school/academic systems. In order to speed up the following enrolment procedure, we suggest you provide our office with proof of authenticity of your study documentation during the application phase (if already available).

You will find for which documents you will need to provide proof of authenticity within the list of required documents.

Common verification methods:

• legalization (affixed on the foreign document by the competent Italian diplomatic-consular authority)
• Apostille (for contracting parties of the Hague Apostille Convention of 5 October 1961) affixed on the foreign document by the competent foreign authority (not the Italian authority)
• statement of verification issued by an ENIC-NARIC center (usually it only confirms the authenticity of the study qualification, not the content of the transcript of records)
• vidimazione (for study qualifications issued by the Holy See)
• for some countries (e.g. Turkey, India, Pakistan, Ukraine, …) there are official and recognized platforms for the digital verification of the study qualifications. Our University can directly verify the authenticity of the qualifications through these platforms. For other countries, however, students must register on specific platforms and/or request the sharing of their data. These services may have a fee that the students must bear. We invite you to provide us with information on the available verifications methods in the country which issued your study qualification, and any data essential for the verification.

Some Universities provide on their own websites verifications services for degrees and transcripts of records, while other Universities may use third parties for sending electronic transcript of records (e-transcripts, national students clearinghouse, Digitary, Truecopy, Parchment etc.). For the latter, the documents must be sent directly to [email protected] and uploaded on Apply@UniTo / Universitaly, together with the service request receipt.

Consider that:

• our University will not accept the sharing of personal credentials (username and password) for the purpose of logging in the applicant’s personal University profile
• verification methods requiring any form of payment by the University will not be accepted
• our University will not directly contact the Institutions that issued the documents
• if it is not possible to verify the requested documentation online, the candidate must provide one of the common proofs of authenticity (legalization/Apostille or Statement of Verification), as stated above
• Austria, Belgium, Danimark, Estonia, Francia, Germania, Irlanda, Lettonia are exempted from legalization/apostille

Here are some examples of accepted methods of verification, by no means this should be considered an exhaustive and complete list.

• a valid passport
• study visa
• residence permit application receipt valid for university enrolment (as per article 39, clause 5, legislative decree July 25, 1998, no. 286 and subsequent modifications and supplements). Once issued, the residence permit must be submitted
• Italian fiscal code ("codice fiscale"). It can be issued by the competent Italian diplomatic-consular authority or once in Italy, it can be issued by one of the local offices of the Agenzia delle Entrate. Once in Italy you can apply for the tax code by contacting [email protected]
• study documents provided with proof of authenticity. See the above sections regarding the required study documents for application and documents verification.