University of Macerata: 2027/28 admission, fees, scholarships and the visa

UniMC runs its own pre-admission for applicants with a foreign qualification who need a visa. For 2027/28 it is open from 16 November 2026 to 30 April 2027, in six intakes. The dates are the same for the bachelor's and the master's:

What to know before you choose an intake:

• One programme only. For 2027/28 each applicant may submit "a single application for just one degree programme". Last year two were allowed.
• Places by country are limited. UniMC says the number of places is limited for applicants from countries that send many applications, without naming the countries. An earlier intake is the safer choice.
• Everything is due by the intake deadline, including the video interview and the references (see How to apply).
• Results come by email, "at least two weeks after the deadline" of your intake.
• The scholarship has its own dates. Last year's UniMC scholarship needed pre-admission by 24 April (see Scholarships), so the last intake can be too late for it.

UniMC's 2027/28 guide prints Intake 2 as "December 1, 2026 - January 8, 2026"; the programme pages give 8 January 2027, which is the date to use. An older FAQ page still says intakes run to the end of May; the 2027/28 guide says 30 April.

• The fee. A Bangladeshi student paid EUR 156 a year in 2026/27, the regional tax and a stamp and nothing to the university itself (see Fees).
• Four degrees taught entirely in English, in law, international relations, international finance and tourism, at a university that does nothing but the humanities and social sciences.
• Three ways to fund the rest: UniMC's own scholarship, Invest Your Talent in Italy on three of the master's, and the regional ERDIS grant (see Scholarships).
• A small university town. UniMC's international office puts a room in a shared flat at EUR 180 to 250 a month (see Living in Macerata).
• Double degrees with universities in Germany, France, Poland and Brazil on the master's (see Programmes).

What Macerata is not: a big city, or a university for engineering, IT or medicine. It suits a student who wants law, politics, economics or tourism in English at a very low fee.

All four are taught in Macerata, have no fixed number of places for the degree as a whole, and start in September.

International Relations has three curricula, each with its own credit rule from your bachelor's:

• *International Politics and Economic Relations (IPER):* 6 credits in at least two of the listed areas.
• *International Economic Relations (IER):* 12 credits in economics or statistics, or 6 there plus 6 in another listed area.
• *International Politics (IP):* 12 credits in politics and sociology or in law, or 6 plus 6 in the combinations listed.

If the admissions committee finds gaps, it sets additional readings after admission and an interview on them; for 2026/27 the interviews had to be passed by 30 November 2026.

IFE is not a degree of its own: the certificate says "Finance and Markets" (LM-16), and IFE is its English-taught curriculum. Missing credits can be made up with free preparatory courses; a final grade below about 95 out of 110 means an orientation interview (the English page says "higher than", the Italian page "equal or higher"). For non-EU students the last interview date for 2026/27 was 12 January 2027.

Tourism admits degrees from other fields case by case, with up to 15 credits of preparatory courses; a science or engineering degree is accepted only with exams in economics, law, geography, history or sociology. If you do not have Italian at B2, 3 credits of Italian are added to your plan.

IECoLS students must all sit a short entry test to complete enrolment (15 questions in 60 minutes, 9 to pass; a CEnT-S score of 60% counts as a pass). It does not decide admission: falling short means extra coursework in the first year.

Not taught in English

Languages, Cultures and Literary Translation (LM-37) is taught in Italian and needs Italian at B2, whatever some guides say. Law (the five-year degree), Management and International Marketing, and Finance and Markets' other curriculum are mostly in Italian. Forced Migration: Europe in a Global Context is a joint master of the ERUA alliance applied for through SWPS University in Warsaw, not through UniMC's portal; UniMC's page shows a fee of EUR 9,000 a year without naming the year.

Double degrees

Year-one students of the right curriculum can apply for a second degree abroad: International Relations (IER) with European University Viadrina in Germany or UNICAMP in Brazil; IFE with Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun and the University of Angers, or UNICAMP; Tourism with the Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt. The calls name no nationality limit; ask about the residence permit for the year abroad before you apply.

Your grades

UniMC asks, "in most cases, a minimum of 60%" of the maximum mark in your previous qualification. For a bachelor's it needs a school diploma "obtained after at least 12 years of schooling", which SSC plus HSC meets.

Three-year degrees. UniMC publishes no rule for Bangladeshi degrees yet: a country-by-country list is promised as "available soon". If you hold a three-year pass degree, ask UniMC before you pay the fee.

English

UniMC's own English test (IECoLS only) can be taken once, online and free. If you fail it, the 2027/28 application page says the application fails (the course's own page says a student who fails can still enrol and must bring a B2 certificate by the end of the first year; ask UniMC which applies). UniMC says the test is "neither connected with the visa application process nor intended to certify" the B2 level, so passing it does not help you at the embassy.

The visa is a separate check. The Embassy of Italy in Dhaka asks for a language certificate "if not already verified by the University with report on Universitaly", and for English the only one it names is IELTS, with a score of at least 6. If you are relying on a school or university letter, ask UniMC whether it will record your English on Universitaly; if not, plan for IELTS. See Italy without IELTS.

Italian

Not needed to be admitted. UniMC's language centre runs Italian courses for enrolled international students, from complete beginner upward.

To apply

Upload colour PDF scans of the originals on apply.unimc.it:

A Declaration of Value or CIMEA's statement is optional at this stage. If your SSC, HSC and passport spell your name differently, fix it before you apply; see name mismatches.

To enrol

UniMC needs either a Declaration of Value from the Embassy of Italy in Dhaka or CIMEA's statement for your qualification, and an apostille can replace legalisation. Bangladesh joined the Apostille Convention in 2025. See Declaration of Value or CIMEA.

Pre-admission is not a check of your documents. An offer "eligible under reserve" means UniMC has not yet verified that your qualifications are genuine. It does not guarantee a visa or enrolment.

1. 1Choose one programme and check its credit and English rules (see Programmes).
2. 2Register on apply.unimc.it with your own email address. UniMC allows one registration per email and cancels duplicates, and it sends every result to that address.
3. 3Fill in the application and upload the documents (see Documents you need).
4. 4Invite your referees. The invitation goes from the portal to the referee, who submits the reference directly. You cannot see it.
5. 5Record the video interview. Each answer is 60 to 90 seconds, with at most three attempts per question. Without the video the application is not considered.
6. 6Pay the EUR 20 application fee and submit before your intake closes.
7. 7Wait for the email, at least two weeks after the intake closes. A positive answer makes you "eligible for enrolment under reserve".
8. 8Then pre-enrol on Universitaly for the visa; see After admission.

For the scholarship, the steps are different and come later: see Scholarships.

No, and UniMC says so. Its 2027/28 guide reads: "No intermediaries are authorised to manage the pre-admission procedure, which is the exclusive competence of the relevant office of the University of Macerata." UniMC names no representatives in Bangladesh or anywhere else.

We are a consultancy, so you should know that before you read further. You apply yourself, from your own email address and your own account on apply.unimc.it; the video answers are yours and the references go straight from your referees to UniMC. Nobody should log in to your account for you, us included.

What we can do, if you ask: help you choose the programme and check its credit rule against your transcript, read your CV and motivation letter, help you prepare for the video questions, and prepare the visa file afterwards. We do not promise an outcome. Questions to ask any consultancy, us included, are in how to verify a consultancy.

The fee for a Bangladeshi student: EUR 156 a year

Italy's ministry publishes a list of "particularly poor" countries, and Bangladesh is on the 2026/27 list (ministerial decree 176/2026). UniMC charges students from those countries no contribution of its own. What they pay in the first year is:

Every other non-EU, non-OECD country is placed in the same first band, so the figure would hold even if the list changed. The conditions:

• your family lives outside Italy;
• you ask for the reduction when you enrol; UniMC applies it on request;
• you earn at least 10 credits to keep it in the second year and 25 in later years;
• from the second year beyond the normal length of the degree, it becomes EUR 374;
• UniMC's general rules on fee reductions exclude a student who enrols in a degree of the same or a lower level than one they already hold. If you already have a master's and want another, ask UniMC what you would pay.

These are 2026/27 figures; the 2027/28 fees and the next list are not published yet. UniMC's English fee pages still show older figures; the Italian pages and the 2026/27 student guide are current.

Other costs

• Health cover: voluntary registration with Italy's health service (UniMC gives EUR 700 a calendar year) or private insurance covering at least EUR 30,000.
• The visa's proof of funds: EUR 10,179.85 for the year; see Italy proof of funds.
• The residence permit after arrival: about EUR 116 for a one-year permit (see After admission).

For living costs, see Living in Macerata and the cost calculator.

Confirmed means an official 2027/28 source states the date. Expected means it follows last year's pattern and has not been announced. Check the others on the intake calendar and on UniMC's pages.

UniMC's international scholarships

The 2026/27 call, the latest published:

• 20 scholarships of EUR 8,000 a year before tax, two of them reserved for students from the University of Hanoi.
• For first-year students of a three-year bachelor's or a two-year master's, who are not Italian, live abroad and hold a foreign qualification.
• Age: born on or after 1 January 2001 for a bachelor's, 1 January 1998 for a master's.
• Not automatic. You had to be pre-admitted by 24 April 2026 and then confirm that you were applying for the scholarship by 15 May 2026.
• How winners are chosen: 70 points for the CV (academic record 40, reference 15, a B2 English certificate 15) and 30 for the video.
• Paid in two halves: EUR 4,000 in December and EUR 4,000 the following November, the second only with 40 credits. Into an account in your name, "preferably a European IBAN".
• Winners have 7 days to accept.
• It cannot be combined with Italian government (MAECI), Invest Your Talent or CRUI scholarships.

Because a Bangladeshi student's UniMC fee is already zero, the value of this scholarship is the cash. The 2027/28 call is not published yet; expect the same pattern, with a pre-admission deadline around late April.

Invest Your Talent in Italy

Bangladesh is on the 2026/27 call's list of 23 countries. The award was EUR 10,800 for the year, tax-free, paid into an Italian account, for master's students born on or after 1 January 2000. At UniMC it covers IFE, Tourism and the IER curriculum of International Relations only. The 2026/27 window was 20 April to 11 May 2026. Our guide: Invest Your Talent in Italy.

The ERDIS regional scholarship (income-based)

Macerata is in the Marche region, where the right-to-study grant is run by ERDIS Marche, not by the university. The 2026/27 call:

• open to first-year international students; family ISEE up to EUR 24,000 and ISPE up to EUR 50,000;
• a student living away from home received EUR 7,171.11 (EUR 8,246.78 with an ISEE up to EUR 12,000), mostly in kind: a room worth EUR 2,821, two meals a day worth EUR 2,011, and the rest in cash;
• for a non-EU first-year, the cash is held back until the credits needed to keep the award are earned (about 20), while the room and meals start at once;
• Bangladesh is on the list of particularly poor countries in the call. Instead of the full family income papers, such students may present a certificate from the Italian embassy that the family is not known to be high-income and of high social standing. The Italian call says "may"; ERDIS's own FAQ says "must", so ask ERDIS which applies to you;
• without that certificate the family's income, property and bank documents must be issued in Bangladesh, legalised or apostilled, and translated into Italian;
• excluded: a student who already holds a degree of the same or a higher level;
• the 2026/27 deadline was 28 August 2026. The 2027/28 call is not out yet.

Students eligible for the ERDIS grant are also exempt from UniMC's fees. How it works in general: DSU scholarships in Italy.

A scholarship does not replace your proof of funds. The Embassy of Italy in Dhaka's checklist says an award does not exempt applicants from showing their financial means.

UniMC publishes no total for monthly living costs, so we do not give one. These are the parts official pages state:

• ERDIS residences: ERDIS runs eleven residences in Macerata, mainly for scholarship holders. You ask for a room inside the scholarship application, with a EUR 150 deposit; 30% of beds are kept for first-year students.
• Il Faro is a cooperative housing service that also manages some UniMC-owned buildings.
• Italian classes: UniMC's language centre (CLA) runs Italian courses for enrolled international students, from level A0. In 2026 UniMC also ran a free 30-hour online Italian course for prospective international students in July and August.

For the cost of a whole year, use the cost calculator and the Italy country guide.

For admission (UniMC's rules)

• Intake: apply early. The first intake closes on 30 November 2026, and places for some countries are limited.
• One programme: choose carefully, you cannot apply to a second.
• Grades: about 60% of the maximum mark in most cases.
• Degree length: no published rule for Bangladesh yet. Ask before paying if you hold a three-year degree.
• Credits: for a master's, match your transcript to the programme's credit rule.
• English: a B2 certificate is the safe choice; for IECoLS, not Duolingo.
• Video and references: both before the intake deadline.
• Your own account: UniMC does not accept intermediaries managing the application.

For the visa (Italy's rules, decided by the embassy)

• English: unless UniMC has recorded your English on your Universitaly pre-enrolment, the embassy asks for IELTS with at least 6.
• Funds: EUR 10,179.85 for the year, from lawful and traceable sources. The Dhaka embassy's checklist names your own 12-month bank statement, or a sponsor who is a parent, a legal resident of Italy or an Italian institution.
• Your degree: a Declaration of Value from the Embassy of Italy in Dhaka or a CIMEA certificate.
• Deadline: 31 October 2027 for 2027/28 bachelor's and master's degrees.
• Pre-enrolment is capped: each university may validate only 20% more pre-enrolments than its places, so pre-enrol as soon as you are admitted (the validation cap).

1. 1Pre-enrol on Universitaly. UniMC validates your application there, and it then goes to the Embassy of Italy in Dhaka automatically. Validation is not a visa. The 2027/28 dates are not out; in 2026 the deadline was 29 July. Step by step: Universitaly pre-enrolment.
2. 2Get the Declaration of Value or the CIMEA statement for your qualification.
3. 3Book the visa appointment and apply for the type D study visa. The full visa file: study in Italy from Bangladesh.
4. 4Apply for the ERDIS scholarship and a room if you need them, in the regional call that comes out in summer.
5. 5Enrol and pay the first instalment (EUR 156 in 2026/27). UniMC's enrolment page gives 31 October as the closing date.
6. 6Within eight days of arriving, apply for your residence permit: collect the kit at the post office (the main one is in Via Gramsci), send it with about EUR 116 in fees for a one-year permit, then go to the Questura's immigration office in Piediripa (Via Annibali 110) for fingerprints. See the permesso kit explained.

University of Macerata

• The 2027/28 pre-admission guide and the application portal
• Enrolment for international students who need a visa
• Programmes: IECoLS, International Relations, IFE, Tourism
• Fee for students from particularly poor countries (Italian)
• International scholarships, 2026/27 call (PDF)
• Accommodation in Macerata and residence permit

Others

• ERDIS Marche scholarship call, 2026/27
• Invest Your Talent in Italy
• Embassy of Italy in Dhaka: study visa checklist (PDF)

Our guides

• Study in Italy from Bangladesh, the Italy country guide and the best universities in Italy
• Which DSU agency applies to your university and ISEE parificato explained
• Scholarships, the intake calendar, the University Finder and a free eligibility assessment