Medicine and Surgery, Dental Medicine and Veterinary Medicine: admission and filter semester

The enrolment period is between 10.00 on 23 June 2025 and 17.00 on 25 July 2025.

When enrolling, you must:

• choose one programme between Medicine and Surgery (LM-41), Dental Medicine (LM-46) and Veterinary Medicine (LM-42);
• select at least 10 universities where you would like to attend the second semester (please note that the first university must necessarily be the one where you want to attend your filter semester);
• choose an alternative degree programme in which you would like to enrol in the a. y. 2025/2026 in case you do not rank high enough in the national ranking to be admitted to the second semester. The alternative degree programme must belong to a related disciplinary area (L-13 Biology, L-2 Biotechnologies, L-38 Zoology, LM-13 Pharmacy and industrial pharmacy), or to one of the degree classes in the health professions, namely:

a) Health Assistance (L/SNT4)

b) Professional Education (L/SNT2)

c) Nursing (L/SNT1)

d) Orthoptic and Ophthalmologic Assistance (L/SNT2)

e) Podiatry (L/SNT2)

f) Audiometric Techniques (L/SNT3)

g) Audioprosthetic Techniques (L/SNT3)

h) Environment and Workplace Prevention Techniques (L/SNT4)

i) Cardiocirculatory and Cardiovascular Perfusion Techniques (L/SNT3)

j) Neurophysiopathology Techniques (L/SNT3)

k) Occupational Therapy (L/SNT2)

l) Orthopaedics Techniques (L/SNT3)

• select at least 10 universities where you would like to attend the alternative degree programme. Please note that the universities selected for the alternative degree programme can be different from the ones selected for the degree programme in Medicine and Surgery (LM-41), Dental Medicine (LM-46) and Veterinary Medicine (LM-42);
• if you have a disability at or above 66%, or a recognised disability pursuant to Law no. 104/1992, state that you hold the relevant disability certificate;
• if you are already enrolled in a degree programme belonging to the class LM-41, LM-46 or LM-42, or in one of the above alternative programmes, specify which courses you have already taken and attach the relevant attendance documents;
• declare whether you hold:
  • an Equivalent Economic Situation Indicator (ISEE) equal to or lower than €27,948.60
  • an Equivalent Asset Situation Indicator (ISPE) equal to or lower than €60,757.87

At the end of your enrolment on Universitaly, you will receive a unique identification code to be used in the next step.

If you selected the University of Milan for your filter semester, you must complete the following steps between 7 July 2025 and 25 July 2025 (23.59):

1. register on the University website (this step is not required for those who are in possession of UniMi login credentials or a SPID identity;
2. access the online form to enrol in the filter semester (the link will be published on 7 July);
3. fill out the form with your personal information:
   • tax ID number (codice fiscale)
   • passport photo as .jpg, .png or .bmp file (max 2 MB)
   • high school information (name of the school, final mark, year of your high school diploma)
   • unique identification code generated at the end of your enrolment on Universitaly
4. pay the €250.00 enrolment fee via PagoPA by 25 July 2025 (please note that this fee is for the filter semester only).  Disabled students who have a degree of disability greater than 66% and/or who have a certified disability (Law No. 104/1992), are e exempted.

Please save the receipt generated at the end of the process, as it serves as proof of your enrolment. The enrolment receipt consists of two pages: the first one contains a summary of the information you have entered, while the second one specifies your matriculation number, your student login credentials (which will be active starting from the day after your enrolment) and information on your University email account. This second page in particular is very important, so make sure not to lose it.

In any case, if you do not remember your student credentials and want to check whether your enrolment has been confirmed and print your receipt, you can still access the service by using your registration credentials.

Students holding a foreign degree can enrol in the filter semester by following the relevant procedures for international students. In any case, enrolment must be made within the applicable deadlines. Non-EU students are also required to apply for a student visa on Universitaly.

During the filter semester, students will attend three 6-credit courses — Biology, Chemistry and Introductory Biochemistry, and Physics — for a total of 18 CFU. Course syllabi are available at the top right of this section.

Courses start on 1 September and attendance is mandatory. Teaching delivery modes (face-to-face, online or blended) are still to be decided. Any updates will be posted on this page as soon as possible.

At the end of the filter semester, students will be required to fill out a satisfaction survey for each course, so as to evaluate the quality of teaching.

The three end-of-course exams will be held one after the other, on the same dates and at the same time in all universities that have organised the filter semester. There will be two exam dates:

• 20 November 2025 at 11:00
• 10 December 2025 at 11:00

Each exam will last 45 minutes, with a 15-minutes break between one exam and the other.

Each exam consists of 15 multiple-choice questions and 16 sentence completion questions, for a total of 31 questions.

Exams are graded on a scale of thirty (30), plus 1 point for honours (lode). For the purpose of the ranking, points are awarded as follows:

• 1 points for each correct answer;
• 0 points for no answer;
• minus 0.25 points for each wrong answer.

A maximum of 93 points can be awarded for the three exams together.

The national rankings for admission to the degree programmes in Medicine (LM-41), Dental Medicine (LM-46) and Veterinary Medicine (LM-42) will be based on the overall score achieved by each student in the three end-of-course exams. 

Only students who obtain a minimum score of 18/30 in each exam will be included in the rankings. The ranking will determine who can matriculate into the second semester, based on the number of places available in each university and according to the preferences expressed by each student.

If you are admitted to the second semester of the degree programme in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milan, when matriculating you will be required to choose the hospital/campus where you will attend your courses: Policlinico hospital, Vialba hospital or San Paolo hospital.

If you obtain a score equal to or above 18/30 in the three end-of-course exams, but fail to rank high enough to access the second semester of your chosen medical degree, you may matriculate into the second semester of the alternative degree programme that you indicated on Universitaly. In this regard, please keep in mind that limited-enrolment programmes can extend the number of places available up to 20%, so you must rank high enough in the national ranking to be included in this percentage. Students who matriculate in alternative degree programmes will be granted credit recognition of the three exams taken during the filter semester.