Enrolment of EU students and levelled non-EU students

EU students and non-EU students who are considered equivalent to EU students must follow the procedure for admission to the first cycle (Bachelor's) degree (corsi di laurea triennali - L) and single cycle degree (laurea magistrale a ciclo unico LM c.u.) and second cycle (Master's) degree (corsi di laurea magistrali) in order to enroll.

The following non-EU students are considered equivalent to EU students:

• Non-EU citizens:
  • those who have an EU residence permit for long-term residents (formerly called carta di soggiorno);
  • those who have a residence permit valid for employment or self-employment, family reasons, political asylum, subsidiary protection, religious reasons, social protection, victims of domestic violence, calamity, particular labour exploitation, acts of special civil merit, special protection (art. 32 para. 3 of Legislative Decree no. 25 of 28 January 2008);
  • those who have a residency permit for study reasons that is still valid, enrolled on single subject, for debt of access to a second cycle degree or to a Foundation course at an Italian university, enrolled in the previous academic years on a single-cycle degree or second cycle degree course at an Italian university;
• the citizens of Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein
• the citizens of Switzerland
• the citizens of the Republic of San Marino
• employees in service in foreign diplomatic representations and in international organizations based in Italy, accredited to the Italian State or the Holy See, their spouses, and dependent children.

In the case of dual citizenship, one of which is Italian, the Italian one prevails.

 A non-EU student applying for or holding a residence permit for asylum, subsidiary protection, disaster, or special protection may enrol presenting to the competent Student Administation Offices just their academic qualification, in original or in a certified copy, and the CIMEA certificate of comparability.

For request of CIMEA certificate of comparability register on the CIMEA portal:

• holders of residence permit for asylum or subsidiary protection
• holders of a residence permit for disaster or special protection

A non-EU student who has applied for asylum to obtain refugee status may enrol, under condition, to a course at the University of Florence. If the student acquires political refugee status, enrolment remains active; otherwise, the student's status lapses.

A non-EU student who holds a residence permit for asylum or subsidiary protection, who lacks the documentation necessary for access to undergraduate and graduate-level university education or who has partial documentation, may apply for an assessment of his/her qualification (art. VII of the Convention on the Recognition of higher education diplomas in the European Region, 11 April 1997, ratified in Italy by Law n. 148 of 11 July 2002).