Regional scholarships
Regional scholarships are benefits aimed at ensuring the right to higher education (in Italian Diritto allo Studio Universitario, or DSU in short). They consist of a sum of money, plus free access to refectory services.
These scholarships are funded by the Lombardy Region and the Ministry of University and Research.
To be eligible for these scholarships, students must be regularly enrolled in a degree programme of the University of Milan and meet certain requirements in terms of academic merit and income.
Students enrolled in vocational master’s programmes and postgraduate medical schools as well as PhD students who are already in receipt of a scholarship or research grant are not eligible to apply. As a general rule, the following categories are also not eligible:
- students who already receive similar benefits for the same programme year;
- part-time students or students enrolled on a shortened career path;
- repeating students;
- students who already hold an Italian degree of the same or higher level as the degree programme for which they are applying for the scholarship.
Regional scholarships are awarded annually, through a public competition.
Payments are made on the “Carta La Statale”, the personal badge for access to university services. Please note that in order to receive payments, you will have to activate your Carta La Statale as a Flash Up Studio La Statale prepaid card.
As of 2024, you can access the unimi.it portal to apply for DSU benefits by using your SPID identity. Further information is available on the Registration page.
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Applications must be submitted via the Online Helpdesk from 10 July to 30 September 2026.
To access the Online Helpdesk, prospective students have to be registered on the UniMi portal.
The ranking lists are published, first in provisional and then in final form, on the Online Service Desk.
The provisional ranking list - generally available by the end of October - is designed to accommodate any appeals for review by students who claim that their documentation was assessed unfairly.
Once applications with supplementary documentation have been assessed and any unfair positions reviewed, the final ranking list of scholarship winners is published, generally by the end of November.
Winners are entitled to complete exemption from university fees and one free midday meal, from Monday to Saturday.
Partial winners are entitled to a 50% exemption.
Students enrolled in their first year are evaluated on the base of their income, but on condition of achieving, within the deadline, the merit requirement. In absence of this requirement, the student will forfeit their benefit.
For students enrolled in second or later years of a programme, the ranking list is based on number of credits and average exam results.
To maintain the right to a scholarship, students enrolled in the first year of a programme must earn the number of credits indicated in the announcement, within August 10th, 2027, with the possibility of using 5 CFU bonus credits for students enrolled to bachelor's or single-cycle degree programmes.
Students in their first year course of a doctoral programme or a postgraduate school maintain the right to their scholarship only when sitting the final exam, otherwise their right to the scholarship lapses.
The scholarship lapses also when students do not meet the attended merit requirements within November 30th, 2027. In this case they must return to the University the amounts already received.
Payment of the first instalment (50% of the total) will take place by December 2026 of each year and will be credited on the student’s Badge - Carta La Statale. The second instalment is only paid once attainment of the necessary merit has been ascertained in October 2027.
The scholarship is paid on the “Carta La Statale”, the University personal badge for access to University services. In order to receive the payments, the Carta La Statale must be activated as a prepaid card Flash Up Studio La Statale.
Students enrolled to academic years next to the first will receive the payment of the first instalment by December 2026 and the second instalments by June 2027. They maintain the right to the scholarships awarded for the academic year 2026/2027 without meeting any other merit requirements.
The scholarship is paid on the “Carta La Statale”, the University personal badge for access to University services. In order to receive the payments, the Carta La Statale must be activated as a prepaid card Flash Up Studio La Statale.
Students who obtain the bachelor's, master's and single-cycle master's degree qualifications a.y. 2026/27 within the regular duration provided for by the respective didactic activity organizations gain an integration of the scholarship, subject to verification of financial availability, equal to half of that obtained in the last year of the course, nett of withholdings for the refectory service.
In order to assign the integration of the graduating award, done ex officio, will be exluded those who:
- have not graduated in a number of years equal to the regular duration of the degree course, single-cycle master's degree and master's degree starting from the year of first enrolment;
- have already been beneficiaries of a graduation award during their entire university career;
- are not beneficiaries of a regional scholarship in the a.y. 2026/27;
The payment of the graduating award supplement a.y. 2026/27 to the beneficiaries will be ordered by July 2028 with the same procedures provided for the regional scholarship.
The allowance goes with regional scholarships and can be awarded once at each study level to students taking part in programmes of study abroad certified by the University.
The allowance is € 600/month, including any EU allowances received, for the duration of study abroad up to a maximum of 10 months. Travel expenses are reimbursed up to € 100 in the case of European countries and up to € 500 for countries outside Europe, in addition to the established free meals that have not been enjoyed.
To apply, students envisaged for the regional scholarship and taking part in programmes of study abroad certified by the University, must only meet the requirements of regular attendance and the income range envisaged for the scholarship.
Application must be made by accessing the online service Benefits service desk with one's University or registration credentials, from the second half of July - when the call for application is published - to the end of September.
For Academic Year 2026/2027 the publication of the provisional ranking list is planned for January 2028, while the final ranking list will be published on February 2028.
Both ranking lists are available at the online service Benefits service desk.