Studying at the University of Turin

The story

The University of Turin was founded in 1404 by a papal bull of Benedict XIII and grew under Prince Ludovico of Savoia-Acaja, at a crossroads between the Alps, Liguria and Lombardy. Erasmus of Rotterdam took his degree here in 1506. The inauguration of a building on Via Po, close to Piazza Castello, came in the same year as the studies reforms enacted by Vittorio Amedeo II.

The university grew into a landmark of Italian Positivism, with teachers such as Cesare Lombroso, Carlo Forlanini and Arturo Graf. Its graduates include Antonio Gramsci, Norberto Bobbio and Cesare Pavese, three Nobel Prize winners in Medicine (Salvatore Luria, Rita Levi Montalcini and Renato Dulbecco) and two Presidents of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi and Giuseppe Saragat. The Luigi Einaudi Campus opened in 2012.

Who studies here

The university publishes a list of its degree programs taught in English for 2026/27. It has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, offered by departments such as Management, Law, Computer Science and Oncology.

Medicine and Surgery is also taught in English, as a single-cycle degree with a restricted number of places.

Programs taught in English

We list 3 Bachelor's, 19 Master's and 1 single-cycle degree at Turin taught entirely in English.

A selection of them:

• Business & Management
• Economics and Finance with Data Science
• Global Law and Transnational Legal Studies
• Artificial Intelligence for Biomedicine and Healthcare
• Area and Global Studies for International Cooperation
• Quantitative Finance and Insurance

The city

Turin sits at the foot of the western Alps, leaning against the hills and bordered by the River Po. The city's tourist office counts more than 300 km of tree-lined avenues and calls Turin the first capital of Italy. It also describes long arcaded streets, Piedmont Baroque and modern architecture side by side.

The centre is easy to cover on foot. The metro skirts the centre, linking the main stations to the riverside on one side and the north-west of the city on the other, and trams and buses reach other districts. Turin has 258 km of bike paths. A Night Buster bus service runs on Fridays, Saturdays and the nights before holidays, from the outskirts to the centre and back. Tickets are sold by authorised GTT retailers such as tobacconists, newsagents and cafes.

How admission works for international students

Applicants holding a foreign qualification submit their application on Apply@UniTo, unless they are on the university's list of exempt applicants, so check that list first. For 2026/27 you can choose up to two programs.

A foreign qualification is assessed before admission. The university looks at whether the awarding institution is recognised in its own education system, at the duration and level of the program, and at the authenticity of the documents. It warns that a substantial difference from the Italian system could lead to refusal even if you pass an admission test. If your country has fewer than twelve years of schooling before university, the university offers a Foundation Programme.

Applicants from outside the EU who live abroad and need a visa also pre-enrol on Universitaly, for one program only. A university offer does not guarantee a study visa: the embassy or consulate decides that.

Undergraduate and 5-6 year degrees without a restricted number of places require a TOLC test offered by CISIA. Degrees with restricted places have their own admission test.

The test guides that apply here: the overview of admission tests.

Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine in English are covered on our Medicine in Italy page.

Fees

For 2026/27, students who live abroad pay a single all-inclusive contribution set by the GDP per capita (at purchasing power parity) of the country where they or their parents live, not by citizenship. It runs from €500 to €1,500 a year. For students living in a country with a GDP per capita up to €26,000, the lowest amount, €500, is the cost. Students whose own or parents' country of residence is on the ministry's list of particularly poor countries are exempt from the contribution and pay only the 156 euro first instalment, the regional tax and stamp duty, which everyone else pays on top of the amount.

The reduction is applied when the country of residence in MyUniTo is correct and up to date, and a late fee applies after the deadline. Some degrees also charge additional contributions.

How we help

At Turin a non-EU applicant abroad registers on Apply@UniTo and on Universitaly. We keep those and the visa in one plan, check which call and test apply to your program, and prepare the documents the university asks for. The country of residence in MyUniTo also sets your fee band, so we check it is right before the deadline.

Questions students ask about Turin

Rules, dates and fees change every year. Confirm them in the official call for your own year before you act on them.