Enrolment in single courses
Ca’ Foscari University offers the opportunity to enrol in single courses. This is an opportunity to enrich your professional and academic curriculum by attending courses offered by the University and taking their corresponding exams. Students who successfully pass their single courses’ exams are provided with a certification.
Enrolment to one or more single courses allows direct access to Study support services.
Some courses offered by Ca’ Foscari University are divided into multiple modules. In these specific cases students are required to pass all the exams for each module in order to acquire the relative certification and ECTS.
How to enrol
In order to enrol in single courses at Ca’ Foscari:
- you need to hold a Secondary School Diploma;
- you can enrol in one of our single courses even if you are enrolled in a degree programme, provided that you have already paid all the tuition fees related to your degree.
Period to apply
You can register for single courses for Academic Year 2024/2025, from 1st September 2024 to 31st August 2025: you can take use all the available appeals, from October 2024 to 30th September 2025.
Procedure
The procedure is completely online and requires the following steps:
- Registration on the University website;
- Submission of the enrolment request form;
- Payment of the enrolment fee and payment of stamp duty (16 Euros);
- Completion of the enrolment on behalf of the Enrolment Unit.
It is possible to enrol in single courses for a maximum total of 60 ECTS for the academic year in which the student is enrolled.
During your academic years at Ca’ Foscari, you can enrol in any activated courses for Master’s degree students in the Venice School of Management for an overall maximum credits of 42 ECTS: Only the ECTS relative to the exams you have successfully passed during the academic years will be considered.
Once you are officially enrolled, you are not allowed to edit your single course choice; instead, you might enroll in additional single courses as long as you respect the maximum ECTS threshold.
Application Form
Filling out your application form:
- Register on the University website. You are not required to register if you are already enrolled at Ca’ Foscari.
- Access your Personal Area of the website with your SPID account. If you have already been enrolled at Ca' Foscari, you can access using your matricola and password.
- Select Menu > Student Services > Enrolment > Single Courses. During the procedure you will be allowed to upload any document (eg. Alumni enrolment card; clearance from Teaching Committee for PhD students).
Enrolment Questionnaire
Before submitting your application you will be required to fill in a specific questionnaire indicating:
- reasons for enrolment;
- whether you belong to the affiliated categories for the reduction of the registration fee;
- details regarding the subjects to which you want to enrol in.
The total amount of your tuition fee depends on your enrolment questionnaire.
Important: once the questionnaire is completed, the application is not yet finalized - you must exit the questionnaire by clicking the 'Exit' button and then complete the enrolment application.
Filling out your application form:
- Register on the University website. You are not required to register if you are already enrolled at Ca’ Foscari.
- Access your Personal Area of the website with your SPID account. If you have already been enrolled at Ca' Foscari, you can access using your matricola and password.
- Select Menu > Student Services > Enrolment > Single Courses. During the procedure you will be allowed to upload any document (eg. Alumni enrolment card; clearance from Teaching Committee for PhD students).
Students with qualifications obtained abroad
All students with international qualifications who wish to enroll in single courses at Ca' Foscari will have their entry qualification pre-eveluated by the Welcome Unit.
While filling the enrolment request, students must upload:
- valid ID card (both front and back, for UE students only) or passport;
- Foreign qualification and transcript of records, in the original language and accompanied by an official translation into Italian or English (not required if the original document is issued in English);
- Declaration of Value [ITA] or CIMEA Statement of Comparability or ARDI Statement of Correspondance along with CIMEA Statemen of Verification;
- (only for non-EU students regularly residing in Italy): valid permit of stay from the list of permits mentioned in art. 39, comma 5, of Legislative Decree n. 2864 of the 25th of July 1998.
Procedures for non-European applicants
The admission process for non-EU students who require a visa follows the directives published annually by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAECI) and the Ministry of the Interior. All details and information are available on the international students page of the Ministry.
Visa application
Non-European applicants who will receive a positive outcome from the pre-evaluation procedure to single courses must apply for a visa for study purposes-single courses.
The procedure for requesting a visa for study purposes has been entirely digitalised and the only channel for the submission of applications is the national Universitaly portal, implemented by the relevant Ministries.
Students must register on the portal and submit their online application, making sure to indicate "Single course(s)" as the reason for the visa request.
For further information regarding the application procedure, students can refer to the attached guidelines or contact the Welcome Unit ( singlecourses@unive.it).
The application will be taken over and validated by the Welcome Unit staff, who will confirm the admission to single courses and forward the request to the relevant Embassy or Consulate, chosen by the student when completing the application form.
Once confirmation of validation of the application has been received, the student must independently contact the relevant Embassy or Consulate to book an appointment and verify the required documents for the visa request.
Each application will then be processed and evaluated according to the procedures and schedules established by the individual Embassies or Consulates abroad.
Please remember that submitting the application via the national Universitaly portal is mandatory but does not automatically guarantee the issuance of the visa for study purposes, which is entirely the responsibility of the relevant Embassy or Consulate abroad.
The list of Italian Embassies and Consulates abroad is available on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation: Rete Diplomatica [ITA].
Residence permit
Non-EU students must apply for a residence permit for study purposes-single courses within 8 days of entering Italy. More information on the procedure and requirements is available in the "Residence permit" section of the Students: your stay, insurance, transport web page.
IMPORTANT! Residence permits for study purposes-single courses are issued for one year only. Students wishing to enrol in a full Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme in the academic year following the year of enrolment in single courses can renew their Italian residence permit without having to apply for a new entry visa, provided that:
- they successfully pass at least one exam;
- at least one of the taken single courses exams is coherent with the contents of the degree programme they wish to enrol in.
Under no other circumstance the renewal is allowed.
Enrolling in Additional Single Courses
If you are already enrolled in one or more single courses for the 2025/2026 academic year and you are willing to enrol in additional single courses, you are required to fill in the dedicated Google form.
The form can only be submitted exclusively using your official university email account.
Within 7 working days after you have submitted your request, you will receive an email with all the necessary information on how to pay the relative fee.
Until the day after your fee payment you won’t be able to register for exams included in your study plan and access the relative online services. Access to your email address might take a longer time.
For this reason, we suggest submitting your request at least 15 days before the date of your exams.
Fees
Fee Reductions Categories
Ca' Foscari Alumni
Students who have become members of the Ca' Foscari Alumni association are entitled to certain benefits regarding single courses: for Alumni Premium, there is a discount of 10% for two courses of their choice, and for Alumni Sostenitori: free enrollment in one course of their choice. For more information, visit the Ca' Foscari Alumni website.
Ca' Foscari PhD students
Other benefits will be given to Ca' Foscari PhD students who can enrol for two courses free of cost during their Doctorate, provided that the Academic Board finds that each course is of fundamental importance to the student’s research and the student demonstrates the scientific reasoning that correlates the course to their research, all in relation to their thesis. In this case, the student must provide a copy of this statement together with the courses application.
The fees to be paid are:
- 240,00 Euro for each course which is worth up to 6 ECTS;
- 300,00 Euro for each course which is worth up to or more than 7 ECTS.
The receipt for the payment of fees and stamp duty will be generated within 7 working days from the day of compilation and will be notified by email.
Courses
The single courses offered coincide with the single course available within different degree programmes.
The courses offered may require attendance in one or more modules. In order to receive full credits for the course, it is necessary to pass the exams of each of the course modules.
The list of courses and the descriptions indicate whether or not the course is comprised of more than one module by showing the partial number of credits for each module (es.”6 out of 12 credits”). If there are other modules for this course, it will be indicated within the individual descriptions under the section “Other parts of this course”. In this case, the student must enrol for the 12 credit option, not just the 6 credit module, paying the required fee. The exam results will be given only after completion of both modules.
You will be able to enrol in any of the course offered by Ca’ Foscari for the academic year in which you are registered, except for those included in the following list:
Completion of the application form
The completion of the application form will not automatically entail the enrolment of the student: enrolment will be finalised only after the payment of fees and the stamp duty.
The receipt for payment will be generated within 7 working days from the submission, you will be notified by email.
Once you are registered, you will receive:
- a student number: this is personal and irreplaceable and necessary to receive exam results and for contact with the administrative office;
- User ID: to be used as a login, together with your password, to access the Personal Area on the University website;
- password: this is personal and will be activated from the following day after it has been issued. If you do not remember your password, go to the access page in the Personal Area and follow the instructions in order to recover your password. Once you have entered the Personal Area, you may make use of the various online services (printing certificates, registering for exams, effecting changes to your personal data and contact addresses).
- e-mail address: this is personal and free of charge; it allows for a two-way communication with the university: it will be the means by which you will receive telematic records of exams that you will take, you will receive notice and information on the opportunities that the university has for your personally. It will be activated from the day following registration;
- CartaConto: it can be used to as a library card; it allows you to make photocopies, it can also be used as a convenient pre-paid and rechargeable card.
Last update: 01/09/2025