How to request accommodation

The University of Milan offers non-resident students 1,345 places in its Halls of Residence, either in single or double rooms. Please note that services available at each Hall of Residence may vary slightly.

Places are allocated via a call for applications, for up to 11 months per year. To participate in the call, students must meet all eligibility criteria, which include the merit and income requirements used to allocate regional scholarships.

Accommodation fees amount to a maximum of €2,799 per year. Students listed as beneficiaries in the final ranking are assigned a place and may reapply for accommodation in subsequent academic years, provided that they still meet all eligibility requirements and have paid all accommodation fees due until then.

Income and merit requirements are established by the call for applications. Generally, the minimum eligibility requirements are:

• being enrolled or intending to enrol in a full-time programme at the University of Milan
• residing in a municipality from which it takes more than 90 minutes by public transport to reach the programme location
• not having a paid job (neither as an employee nor as a self-employed professional)
• not holding more than a 10% share in a company or partnership, and not having a VAT number
• not being in debt towards the University

Applications for accommodation must be submitted online via the Online Helpdesk; you can access it using your university email address and password or, if you are not yet enrolled at the University of Milan, the login details you used to register to the UniMi website. 

The University will review all applications received and draw up provisional ranking lists, divided by student categories: returning students (i.e. students who were already assigned a place for the previous academic year); new admissions of EU and non-EU students enrolled in the first year of any programme; new admissions of EU and non-EU students enrolled in subsequent years. These rankings are provisional pending the results of any appeal lodged by non-beneficiary students.

Final ranking lists – divided between returning students and new admissions – are usually published in early September.

Students who are selected as beneficiaries must accept or decline the accommodation offer by accessing the Online Helpdesk with their university email and password or their registration credentials. 

Upon accepting the accommodation offer, students will be required to:

• sign the letter of commitment to pay the accommodation fees for the whole semester or academic year by the respective payment deadlines
• accept the terms and conditions set out in the Regulations for the Halls of Residence.

After accepting the offer, they will receive a formal letter of admission at their university email address, with an indication of the expected check-in date.

Students must move into the assigned accommodation within 7 days of the date indicated in the letter, by checking in at their Hall of Residence with a valid ID. 

Any places that become available as a result of beneficiary students declining their accommodation offer will be assigned to the next eligible applicant in the ranking list, which will be updated accordingly. 

Ranking updates generally continue until the end of September.