Enrolment for non European students who require a visa
Non European students with an international entrance qualification (e.g., a high school diploma or undergraduate degree completed outside of the Italian education system) are classified and enrolled at Ca’ Foscari as degree-seeking students. This page provides the information that degree-seeking students require regarding Ca’ Foscari’s enrolment procedures. They apply only to degree-seeking students who require a long-term study visa.
Enrolment for European students and equivalent
Citizens from European Union Member States, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and the Swiss Confederation; from the Republic of San Marino and the Holy See; foreigners already officially residing in Italy (Art. 39, comma 5, of Legislative Decree 286 of 25 July, 1998), must follow procedures for Enrolment for EU students and equivalent.
The International Office’s Welcome Unit is in charge of enrolment procedures for degree-seeking students. Depending on whether a student is enrolling in a programme offered exclusively by Ca’ Foscari or a double/joint degree offered in collaboration with another university, the enrolment procedures differ.
Enrolment procedure for Non-European candidates wishing to enrol in a degree programme
- Complete an application for admission on Ca’ Foscari’s online application platform apply.unive.it;
- pass the pre-evaluation procedure in order to receive a letter of enrolment eligibility;
- with this letter, begin the so-called pre-enrolment and visa request procedure via the Ministry of Universities and Research portal Universitaly;
- with the visa approval, carry out the enrolment procedures described in greater detail below.
Enrolment for Double - Joint degrees
Double - Joint degree programme applicants should contact jointdegree@unive.it for more information about enrolment procedures. More information on selection procedures can be found on the Double - Joint Degrees webpage.
Once the enrolment procedure has been completed, applicants officially become Ca' Foscari students and receive a matriculation, or student, number. A student can begin attending classes without being enrolled, but the student number is essential in order to be able to:
- access university student services
- fill out one’s study plan
- register for and take exams
Enrolment procedures and deadlines
The information that follows regards non-European students requiring a visa wishing to enrol for the first time in bachelor’s or master’s degree programmes in the 2024/2025 academic year.
Enrolment procedures
Enrolment procedures generally begin in mid-July.
Future students must keep in mind that a visa for study purposes is mandatory for enrolment. They are warmly suggested to start their enrolment request by paying the first instalment of the due tuition fees only after having obtained their visa.
Under no circumstances can a student’s enrolment be finalized after the final deadline of 17 December 2024.
Steps to enrolment
Admitted applicants can find in this section the Admitted applicants can find in this section the enrolment procedures to be followed step-by-step. to be followed step-by-step.
- Meet all the requirements by the relevant deadlines
To complete enrollment, all the necessary documents (see the dedicated section below) must be uploaded in the “Task” section of one’s application on apply.unive.it.
It is impossible to complete enrolment if one or more of these documents is not uploaded. - Obtain a provisional Ca’ Foscari student account
The personal information of future students who have been accepted or conditionally accepted via apply.unive.it is imported automatically into Ca’ Foscari’s student database, which is different from apply.unive.it portal.
Instructions on how to obtain and activate a provisional student account are sent to applicants via email.
The provisional account’s username and password can be used to access Ca’ Foscari’s digital learning tools and to apply for the Veneto Region’s need-based financial aid through the applicant’s Personal Area con www.unive.it.
(Please note: Applicants who have already had a Ca’ Foscari student profile on www.unive.it in the past will be contacted with instructions about how to access their old account and will skip directly to step 3.) - Communicate the programme in which enrolment should take place
After obtaining a provisional student account, applicants must confirm the degree programme in which they wish to enrol via their application on apply.unive.it using the “Decision” function.
This action must be completed by all applicants, even those who have included only one programme in their application.
In order to do so, applicants must:
- Access their online application on apply.unive.it;
- Click on “Offers” on the menu on the left side of the landing page: they will be redirected to the section “Review your offers”;
- Beside the name of the programmes for which they have been Accepted or Conditionally Accepted, they will find a drop-down menu to make the decision;
- Click on “Make my final decision” to confirm the programme, so the system will automatically decline all other possible offers. - Confirmation of the same programme on Universitaly
Non-European candidates requiring a visa for enrolment must confirm the same choice they made in their pre-enrolment application on Universitaly portal. - Check the enrolment request
When the programme in which enrolment should take place has been communicated, an enrolment request for the chosen programme is generated automatically in our system.
Within 2-3 days applicants receive an email confirming that the enrolment request has been successfully generated and providing instructions on how to carry out the payment of the first tuition fee instalment in order to confirm and submit the final enrolment request. - Pay the first instalment
In order to confirm and submit the enrolment request, future students must pay the first instalment of annual fees. Deadlines for payments are mentioned on the section "Deadlines" of this webpage.
More information on how to pay is available here: How to pay.
If applicants have already been granted a tuition fee waiver or have been recognized the status of refugees or hold a MAECI or CRUI scholarship, they should contact us at welcome@unive.it before paying. - Wait for your enrolment, or student, number
The Welcome Unit will verify the enrolment application and will finalize the request as soon as possible, provided that the applicant meets all requirements and holds all mandatory documents.
Applicants will then receive an email containing their matriculation number and password. These credentials will replace the provisional ones and grant access to the Personal Area and webmail @stud.unive.it.
Remember that this email address @stud.unive.it will be used for all official communications: it must be checked regularly.
Bachelor’s degree requirements
Applicants enrolling into bachelor’s degree programmes must have uploaded all the following documents in the relevant “Task” sections of their profile on apply.unive.it:
- Italian visa for study;
- Higher Secondary School final Diploma and transcript of records (both in the original language and officially translated into Italian or English language if needed);
- Statement of Comparability issued by CIMEA
OR
Declaration of Value issued by the Italian representatives abroad
OR
ARDI Statement of Correspondance along with the CIMEA Statement of Verification - English language certificate AND/OR Italian language certificate: level and requirements are specified on the specific course’s web page on unive.it;
- Specific requirements (if applicable): any specific requirements are communicated in the conditional offer of acceptance received via apply.unive.it;
IMPORTANT: The lack of one or more of the above-mentioned documents makes enrolment impossible.
Master's degree requirements
Applicants enrolling into master’s degree programmes must have uploaded all the following documents in the relevant “Task” sections of their profile on apply.unive.it:
- Italian visa for study;
- Bachelor’s degree final Diploma and transcript of records (both in the original language and officially translated into Italian or English language if needed);
- Statement of Comparability issued by CIMEA
OR
Declaration of Value issued by the Italian representatives abroad
OR
ARDI Statement of Correspondance along with the CIMEA Statement of Verification
OR
Diploma Supplement based on the international model developed by the European Commission, the Council of Europe and UNESCO and awarded by institutions located in a country adhering to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA); - English Language Certificate and/or Italian Language Certificate: level and requirements are specified on the specific course web page;
- Specific requirements (if applicable): any specific requirements are communicated in the conditional offer of acceptance received via apply.unive.it.
IMPORTANT: The lack of one or more of the above-mentioned documents makes enrolment impossible.
Enrolment deadlines
Final deadline to enrol in the 2024/2025 academic year: 17 December 2024.
Important note for students wishing to apply for the Veneto Region’s need-based financial aid
The Call for regional scholarship for financial aid a.y. 2024/2025 may set different tuition payment and enrolment deadlines.
Future students who wish to apply for this scholarship are required to read the information on the following webpage Scholarships for student financial aid.
For more information on this matter, students are encouraged to contact the Financial Aid Unit directly.
Students who miss this deadline can still proceed with enrolment following the relevant deadlines, but they will not be considered for this scholarship.
Tuition fee payment deadlines
As mentioned above, a non-European student requiring a visa must pay the first tuition fee instalment by 17 December 2024 in order to complete the enrolment procedure on time, which is a later deadline than the one applied to others.
Despite this extension, the payment schedule of the second and third instalment tuition fees remain universal for all students:
- Deadline for paying second tuition fee instalment without a penalty: 10 December 2024
For students who pay the first instalment AFTER December 10, the deadline for the second instalment will be postponed to 23 December 2024. - Deadline for paying third tuition fee instalment without a penalty: 16 May 2025
The amount of this last instalment is calculated based on a student’s status and on the total amount of tuition fees owed for the 2024/2025 academic year.
IMPORTANT! In the event that you do not complete the enrolment procedure, you will need to request the reimbursement of the first instalment of your tuition fees by filling out a request form that will be sent to you by the Welcome Unit after the final enrolment deadline passes, so after December 17.
The reimbursement will be made during the summer of 2025 and the bank transfer can only be made to an account registered in your own name.
Please note: due to the current international sanctions imposed by the European Union, it is not currently possible for Ca' Foscari to carry out reimbursements to bank accounts in Iran or Syria.
Credit recognition
You can enroll both in a bachelor’s or a master’s degree program asking for credit recognition of activities already carried out for:
- another bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or professional master already obtained;
- unfinished university career because of withdrawal or decay;
- single courses (outside of a degree scheme);
- stage/internship/work activity.
Enrolment with credit recognition is not allowed for students currently enrolled in another university programme for which suspension was requested.
Enrolment with credit recognitions is subject to the payment of a fee of €300,00: the invoice for the payment will be generated when enrolment is confirmed.
You don’t need to pay this fee if you request credit recognition for:
- activities previously accomplished at Ca' Foscari (for example individual courses) if the code of courses corresponds to that of the study plan of the programme you are enrolling into. If the courses aren’t included in the specific study plan and are thus inserted in the free choice courses you will have to pay the 300 Euros fee;
- transfers from other Universities.
Procedures and deadlines
Credit recognition request must be carried out before enrollment.
International applicants must contact the related Campus for more information about the procedure: Economic Campus, Humanistic Campus, Linguistic Campus, Scientific Campus.
For further information and deadlines, read the section Enrol > Admission > Enrollment with ECTS (European Credit Transfer System Credits) credit recognition of the pages of the specific bachelor’s or master’s degree programs that can be reached through www.unive.it/offertaformativa.
Last update: 20/11/2024