University of Milan - Excellence Scholarships 2025

Deadline: May 31, 2025

Scholarships

Master

Location(s)

  • Italy
Città Studi, Milan

Overview

Are you thinking to apply to one of our master degree courses? ou would be pleased to know that, if you do it within 31 May 2025, you could be entitled to receive one of the 60 scholarships or one of the 100 enrolment fee exemptions destined to the best international students among the 10% of the best ones of each study area.

In line with its internationalization strategies for increasing incoming mobility and attractiveness to foreign students, the University of Milan gives its  international students the possibility to be offered scholarships and exemptions from tuition fees.

Details

Due to the success of the Excellence Scholarship programme, established last year, the University of Milan has decided to increase the number of both the enrolment fee exemptions and the scholaships (consisting of 6.000 euro each, plus enrolment fee exemptions).

The incentive programme does not require any further application beyond the online procedure that candidates to our master degree programmes have to undertake.

Master programmes

  • Agricultural and Food Sciences
  • Exercise and Sports Sciences
  • Humanities
  • Law
  • Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication
  • Medicine
  • Pharmacy
  • Political, Economic and Social Sciences
  • Sciences and Technology
  • Veterinary Medicine

About us

The University of Milan is a public teaching and research university, which - with 8 faculties and 2 schools and a teaching staff of more than 2000 professors - is distinguished by its wide variety of disciplinary fields.

A leading institute in Italy and Europe for scientific productivity, the University of Milan is the largest university in the region, with approximately 64,000students; it is also an important resource for the socio-economic context of which it is a part.

Milan is, in fact, the capital of Lombardy, one of the most dynamic and international regions in the European Union, a leader in the national economy that stands at the Italian forefront of research and development investments and commitment to technological innovation.

The University of Milan also possesses a remarkable artistic and cultural heritage that includes important historic buildings, inherited and acquired collections, archives, botanical gardens and the old Brera Observatory commissioned by Maria Teresa of Austria. The University’s departments are housed in important historic edifices in the centre of Milan and in modern buildings in the area known as Città Studi (the City of Studies).

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Eligibility

Candidates should be from:


Description of Ideal Candidate

  • Admission to a Master programme is open to graduates who have at least a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent).
  • To obtain the qualification (master degree) it is necessary to accumulate 120 credits (60 for each year of the course).

"Excellence Scholarships" are awarded by an ad-hoc Commission among all those who applied for admission to a Master's degree programme by 31 May 2025. 

You don't have to apply. In July, the beneficiaries will receive a formal email confirming the grant.


Dates

Deadline: May 31, 2025


Cost/funding for participants

Excellence scholarships

For academic year 2025/2026, 160 incentives are available to the best international students admitted to a Master's degree programme, of which:

  • 60 scholarships worth € 8,000 each, with the right to exemption from the all-inclusive tuition fee
  • 100 total exemptions from the all-inclusive tuition fee

The grants contribute to the constitution of total income and are subject to Irpef taxation since they are assimilated to employee income (Article 50, paragraph 1, letter c) of the TUIR).

 

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