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🇮🇹 Italy
- Valid passport
- Academic transcripts and certificates, translated and legalised
- IELTS or an accepted English-proficiency alternative
- Statement of purpose / motivation letter
- Bank statement and bank solvency certificate
- Universitaly pre-enrolment confirmation
- Declaration of Value (DoV) or equivalent academic recognition
- Accommodation confirmation and health insurance
🇨🇾 Cyprus
- Valid passport
- Academic transcripts and certificates, attested
- IELTS 5.0 or higher, or an equivalent listed English test result
- Bank statement and solvency certificate
- Offer / acceptance letter from the university
- Medical tests as required by the university
- Police clearance certificate
- Health insurance
🇭🇺 Hungary
- Valid passport
- Academic transcripts and certificates, attested
- IELTS or an accepted alternative
- Motivation letter
- Medical certificate
- Bank statement (self-funded applicants)
- Stipendium Hungaricum application and supporting documents, where applicable
- Health insurance
🇲🇹 Malta
- Valid passport
- Academic transcripts and certificates, attested
- IELTS or an accepted alternative
- Offer letter from the institution
- Bank statement and solvency certificate
- Accommodation confirmation
- Health insurance
- Police clearance certificate
🇫🇮 Finland
- Valid passport
- Academic transcripts and certificates, attested
- IELTS or an accepted alternative
- Studyinfo (Opintopolku) application
- Entrance examination result, where required
- Bank statement evidencing €9,600 in your own name
- Health insurance
- Accommodation confirmation
🇬🇷 Greece
- Valid passport
- Academic transcripts and certificates, attested and translated
- IELTS, MOI certificate or a university English test
- Offer letter from the institution
- Bank statement and solvency certificate
- Health insurance
- Police clearance certificate
- Accommodation confirmation
🇩🇰 Denmark
- Valid passport
- Academic transcripts and certificates, attested
- IELTS 6.5 or an accepted equivalent
- Motivation letter and CV
- Offer letter from the institution
- Evidence of funds as required by SIRI
- Health insurance
- Tuition payment receipt where applicable
🇸🇪 Sweden
- Valid passport
- Academic transcripts and certificates, attested
- IELTS 6.5 or an accepted equivalent
- University Admissions application and ranked choices
- Motivation letter and CV
- Evidence of funds for the residence permit
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Tuition payment receipt where applicable
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
- Valid passport
- Academic transcripts and certificates, attested and legalised
- IELTS or the university's own English test result
- Entrance examination result for medicine, where applicable
- Offer letter from the institution
- Bank statement and solvency certificate
- Medical certificate and health insurance
- Police clearance certificate
🇷🇴 Romania
- Passport valid at least three months beyond the visa and issued within the last ten years
- Two recent colour photographs, 3 x 4 cm
- Proof of acceptance for studies from the Romanian Ministry of Education, for a full-time programme
- Proof of payment of tuition for at least one academic year
- Proof of means of support at the level of the minimum guaranteed gross salary
- Police clearance certificate
- Travel medical insurance with cover of at least €30,000
- Proof of accommodation
- Proof of knowledge of the language of the study programme (not for the preparatory year)
These are the documents needed in the ordinary case. Individual universities and embassies routinely ask for more — each country guide links to the authority that sets the list.