RomeLazioState universityFounded 198235,000 students
Tor Vergata University of Rome
- Tuition a year€156 to €10,100Set by your assessed household income. Each degree page carries its own.
- Application feeNot published yetPaid once, to the university.
- IntakesSeptember, NovemberVisa pre-enrolment on Universitaly is once a year, for one programme.
- Founded1982
- Students35,000
- Degrees in EnglishNot published yet
Tor Vergata University of Rome, Student Handbook 2026/2027, Chapter 7 University Feeschecked
Tor Vergata University of Rome is a public university in the south east of Rome, in the Lazio region.
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Its statute states that the university has legal personality under public law, and rules out any profit not returned to its institutional purposes. It began teaching in 1982. The campus covers about 600 hectares near exits 19 and 20 of the Rome ring road, and each teaching area has its own buildings. Teaching is organised in six macro areas: Economics, Law, Engineering, Humanities and Philosophy, Medicine and Surgery, and Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences. These are split across 18 departments. The university's own figures page counts about 35,000 students and 2,300 staff, more than 110 degree courses, about 140 postgraduate paths, 6 libraries, 350 lecture rooms and 29 computer laboratories. A June 2025 news page gives 3,874 international students enrolled on degree courses in 2024/2025, from 130 countries. Most teaching is in Italian. The Courses held in English page lists the full degrees taught in English. They include Global Governance, Business Administration and Economics, Engineering Sciences, Medicine and Surgery, Pharmacy, Economics, Finance and Banking, Business Administration, European Economy and Business Law, ICT and Internet Engineering, and several science and humanities master's degrees. English taught programmes run their own admission calls, with their own deadlines, their own application fees and their own places. The university also runs a one year Foundation Course in English. It is for applicants who fall short of the twelve years of schooling Italy requires, or who want to strengthen their academic grounding first. Its call states that classes begin in November 2026 and that the first semester is delivered online, with on campus teaching from March 2027. Programmes fall into three admission types. Restricted access programmes cap the number of places and run a selective admission test. Open access bachelor programmes run an assessment test. Master programmes check curricular requirements and personal preparation. Fees are not a single price. They are an annual contribution set by the programme's contribution class and by household income through the Italian ISEE system. A non EU student with income abroad can either declare that income or pay a fixed annual amount instead. Pakistan is not a party to the Lisbon Recognition Convention. A Pakistani applicant must therefore supply a CIMEA Statement of Comparability and a CIMEA Statement of Verification for a qualification earned in Pakistan.
What it costs
Start with what a Pakistani family actually pays, because the published range is not open to most of them.
How the fee is actually worked out
A household whose income is earned abroad cannot obtain an ordinary ISEE, the Italian household income measure, so Tor Vergata offers two routes. Route one is the flat fee: you declare nothing and pay a fixed amount for the year. The handbook sets 2,500 euro for seven programmes taught in English: MSc Business Administration, MSc Finance and Banking, BSc Business Administration and Economics, MSc European Economy and Business Law, MSc Economics, and the single cycle degrees in Pharmacy and in Medicine and Surgery. It sets 4,500 euro for the BA in Global Governance. It sets 1,000 euro for every other degree course. A 500 euro rate exists, but only for the countries named in MUR Decree No. 176 of 24 February 2026, and Pakistan is on neither that list nor the older one on the English fees page. The handbook prints Global Governance twice. Point C(a) names eight programmes at 2,500 euro for first year intakes from 2020/2021 onwards, Global Governance among them. Point D sets 4,500 euro for Global Governance, for first year intakes from 2025/2026. Point D governs a new entrant, because it is written for that one degree and it names the later cohort: a student whose first year is 2026/2027 pays 4,500 euro on Global Governance and not 2,500 euro. The university's English fees page prints the same split: seven programmes at 2,500 euro, Global Governance on its own at 4,500 euro. Add 156 euro to every flat fee. That is a Lazio regional tax of 140 euro plus 16 euro stamp duty, which the university adds to the flat fee. So the year is 1,156 euro on most degrees, 2,656 euro on the seven named programmes, and 4,656 euro on Global Governance. Route two is to declare the income. You must obtain an ISEE-Universita Parificato, also called the Scheda Raccolta Dati. Any CAF tax assistance centre in Italy can issue it, and the university runs its own at applynow.uniroma2.it. The fee then runs from a minimum of 156 euro up to the maximum for your programme. Papers for every household member must be legalised and translated into Italian, with amounts converted into euro. The deadline is 15 December 2026, then 150 euro up to 14 March 2027, 200 euro up to 31 May 2027, and nothing after. One rule closes this route for many families: the handbook states that equivalent ISEE certifications showing an amount of zero will not be accepted, and the flat tax is applied instead. Now the published range. The annual all inclusive contribution is set by the programme's contribution class and by household ISEE-Universita. The handbook lists six classes plus a separate line for Global Governance, each with three rates. Under ordinary taxation the contribution runs from 0 euro up to a ceiling of 2,270 in class 1, 3,100 in class 2, 3,600 in class 3, 4,250 in class 4, 5,250 in class 5, 7,250 in class 6, and 9,000 for Global Governance. A student who falls behind on credits moves to the higher rate and then to the maximum rate, where those same seven ceilings become 2,932, 3,895, 4,445, 5,210, 6,105, 8,255 and 10,100 euro. 10,100 euro is the highest contribution the university prints anywhere, and the two ends of the range are not measured the same way. The 156 euro is a total payable: it is the regional tax and the stamp duty, with a contribution of zero underneath. The 10,100 euro is a contribution only, and the 156 euro is still to be added to it. So the bottom of the range is everything a student pays, and the top is not. The handbook says twice that the 156 euro is due in any case, including where the contribution is zero, which is why the range starts at 156 euro and not at 0. The no tax area sets the contribution to zero where household ISEE-Universita is 26,000 euro or less. A first year student need only meet the income condition. Between 26,000 and 28,000 euro the contribution is discounted 60 per cent, between 28,001 and 30,000 euro by 55 per cent, and above 30,000 euro not at all. Payment is in two instalments: the first is 156 euro under ordinary taxation, 356 euro under higher taxation and 488 euro under maximum taxation, due at enrolment or by 6 November 2026, with 50 euro late fee up to 31 December 2026 and 100 euro after. The second is half by 31 March 2027 and half by 31 May 2027. Every figure above is from the Student Handbook 2026/2027, the later document where the English fee pages disagree.
What it takes as English
- Medium of Instruction letter
- Yes
- Duolingo English Test
- No
There is one university level rule, and then each programme sets its own certificates and scores. The university level rule is on the 2026/2027 Online English Language Exam page.
The rest of the English requirement
It says the exam is for applicants who have not already met the requirement by submitting either "an accepted B2 (CEFR) English language certificate issued by a recognised awarding body" or "official evidence that English was the medium of instruction for their previous studies". So a medium of instruction document is accepted in place of a test. Programme pages say the same in their own words. The MSc Business Administration page asks for an "English language certificate at B2 level or medium of instruction certificate related to the undergraduate degree issued by the home university". The MSc ICT and Internet Engineering page says: "If the medium of instruction of Your Bachelor's Degree is the English language, there is no need to produce any certification." One waiver on the Business Administration page turns on nationality, and it needs checking before you rely on it. That page also exempts "applicants who are active citizens of countries where English is one of the official languages". The university publishes no list of those countries and never names Pakistan. Write to international.students@uniroma2.it before treating that clause as a waiver. Scores, where a programme publishes them. MSc Economics and MSc European Economy and Business Law require B2 and accept IELTS General Training or Academic at 6.5 or above, Cambridge First Certificate, Cambridge BEC Vantage, TOEFL iBT 87, TOEFL PBT 513, TOEFL CBT 183, and Trinity College London ISE II. MSc Business Administration and BSc Business Administration and Economics accept IELTS Academic, Cambridge First Certificate, Cambridge BEC Vantage, and TOEFL iBT 74 or TOEFL PBT 538, with the certificate no older than three years. That page adds: "No attendance certificates are accepted." MSc Economics goes further than the others. Its 2026/2027 call says a certificate "is not compulsory; the knowledge of English will be assessed during the Teams interview". Candidates without a certificate may still apply, and the selection committee reads the CV and transcript first. The BA in Global Governance sets B2 as the entry level and verifies it in the oral interview, which is held in English. The Language Centre runs its own exam for anyone with neither a certificate nor medium of instruction evidence. It is a 45 minute written test covering A1 to C1, taken on a PC only, followed by an oral test online. Passing at B2 produces an official statement to upload to the Universitaly pre enrolment application. Duolingo is not accepted. The Foundation Course page requires a certificate from a body on the Italian Ministry of Education accredited list, then states: "English language certificates different from the ones mentioned in the previous link ARE NOT ACCEPTED. For example: duolingo, british council". No programme certificate list on the site includes Duolingo. Italian is required only for programmes taught in Italian. That applies to a non EU applicant residing abroad who applies for a study visa. Four proofs are accepted: a CLIQ certificate at B2 or above, a pass in the Italian language test organised by the university, a CISIA Italian L2 result of at least 61 out of 72, or a four or five year secondary diploma from an Italian state or paritarian school abroad. Programmes taught in English carry no Italian language requirement. The Foundation Course is the one place the B2 floor drops. Ministerial guidelines for 2026/2027 and 2027/2028 set the minimum at B1, and the university published a partial amendment confirming that the required level is "B1 and not B2".
Paying for it
Funding open to a student here.
In Italy the largest route is regional rather than national, and Rome sits in Lazio.
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Politecnico di Milano, Integrazione al Bando Diritto allo Studio a.a. 2026/2027, art. 1 (Decreto Dirigenziale Prot. 0166386 del 1 luglio 2026), checked 11 September 2026
ER.GO, Emilia-Romagna right-to-study agency, checked 30 August 2026
Invest Your Talent in Italy, current call, 11th edition, Art. 2, checked 11 September 2026
Politecnico di Milano, official call PDF for a.y. 2026-2027, Art. 1-3, checked 11 September 2026
Politecnico di Milano, official call PDF for a.y. 2026-2027, Art. 1-2, checked 11 September 2026
Politecnico di Milano, official call PDF for a.y. 2026-2027, checked 11 September 2026
Politecnico di Milano, official call PDF for a.y. 2026-2027, Art. 1-4, checked 11 September 2026
MAECI, list of eligible foreign countries and other territories, academic year 2026-2027, checked 11 September 2026
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Where the detail lives
- Every degree in Italy
The fee, the English rule and the deadline are set per programme, so they are on the programme page.
- Every award on record
Each one with its amount, its window and the page it came from.
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Questions
About applying to Tor Vergata University of Rome.
How much will I actually pay in tuition as a Pakistani student?
Between 1,156 and 4,656 euro for the year, depending on the programme. Your family's income is in Pakistan, so you cannot obtain an ordinary ISEE, and the published 156 to 10,100 euro scale is closed to you unless you file an ISEE parificato. The simpler route is the flat fee. It is 1,000 euro a year on most degree courses, and 2,500 euro on seven programmes taught in English, including MSc Economics, MSc Finance and Banking, MSc Business Administration and the single cycle degrees in Pharmacy and Medicine and Surgery. Global Governance is 4,500 euro for anyone whose first year is 2025/2026 or later. Add 156 euro to each of those figures for the Lazio regional tax of 140 euro and stamp duty of 16 euro. A 500 euro rate exists, but only for countries named in MUR Decree No. 176 of 24 February 2026, and Pakistan is not on that list.
Is there an application fee, and can it be waived?
There is no single fee. The handbook prices admission and assessment tests at 30 euro, except where a programme's own notice sets a different amount, and tests run on the university's own platform at ammissioneonline.uniroma2.it are free of charge. Two calls set more: 50 euro for the MSc in European Economy and Business Law, and 100 euro for the BA in Global Governance. All are non refundable. Two groups pay nothing. The first is applicants with a disability of 66 per cent or more, or recognised under Article 3 paragraphs 1 and 3 of Law 104 of 5 February 1992. The second is applicants who already hold a Tor Vergata bachelor's degree with a mark of at least 100/110. Read your own programme's call, because the 30 euro is a default and not a university price.
Can I use a medium of instruction letter instead of IELTS or TOEFL?
Yes. The Online English Language Exam page for 2026/2027 says its exam is only for applicants who have not already met the requirement. Two things meet it: an accepted B2 certificate from a recognised awarding body, or official evidence that English was the medium of instruction for your previous studies. Programme pages say the same. The MSc in Business Administration asks for a B2 certificate or a medium of instruction certificate issued by your home university. The MSc in ICT and Internet Engineering says no certification is needed if the medium of instruction of your bachelor's degree was English. Ask your own university for the letter, and have it name the language of instruction. If you have neither a certificate nor that letter, the Language Centre runs an online exam, and a B2 pass produces a statement you upload to Universitaly.
Is the Duolingo English Test accepted?
No. The Foundation Course page requires a certificate from a body on the Italian Ministry of Education accredited list, then names duolingo and british council as examples that are not accepted. No programme certificate list on the site includes Duolingo. The lists that do exist name IELTS, TOEFL, Cambridge First Certificate, Cambridge BEC Vantage and Trinity College London. Plan for one of those, for a medium of instruction letter, or for the university's own English exam.
Anything not answered here is set per programme, not per university. Run the three-question check and it will tell you which level you would be applying for.
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