How many seats are available for the entrance exam at my chosen Italian university for the restricted admission program I'm interested in?

There is no single seat number that applies across Italian universities, since each restricted admission program, from Medicine to Architecture to Economics, sets its own quota through a separate annual admission call.

How Italy's Restricted Admission System Works

• Programma nazionale, the national quota: Programs like Medicine using the IMAT exam set a national total seat count published annually, split between EU and non-EU applicant quotas.
• Programma locale, the university level quota: Many other restricted programs, such as certain Architecture or Economics degrees, set their own seat numbers at the individual university level rather than nationally.
• Non-EU reserved quota: Universities such as the University of Bologna and University of Turin publish a specific number of seats reserved for non-EU students applying from abroad, which is the category most Indian applicants fall under.

Where To Find Your Exact Number

Italy's Ministry of University and Research (MUR) governs the restricted admission system known as accesso programmato nationally, but the exact seat count for your specific university and program appears in that university's own annual admission call, commonly referred to as a bando, typically published a few months before the entrance exam. These calls are reissued every academic year, so a seat number from a previous year cannot be assumed to carry over.

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Italy's Ministry of University and Research (MUR), on restricted admission (accesso programmato), and the University of Bologna and University of Turin, on their non-EU applicant admission procedures.

My Advice

In my experience, students search generically for seats available instead of going directly to the specific university's international admissions office page. Tell me the exact university and program name and academic year, and I can point you to that specific admission call rather than a general description of how the system works.