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Enrolment in First (L) and Single Cycle Degrees

Requirements

Those who have an high school diploma or another qualification obtained abroad recognized as valid can enrol in any First Cycle or Single Cycle degree programme. 

Students from the European Union and non-EU students who are considered equivalent to EU students can enrol in a degree programme at the University of Florence as full-time students, or as part-time students (with a reduction in tuition fees and teaching commitment; for more information part-time).

Entrance knowledge test – Unrestricted access courses 

All students must take the Entrance Knowledge Test (TOLC and other admission tests), a test for the assessment of initial knowledge. The "OFA" test can also be taken after enrolment. Passing is necessary to be admitted to the exams. 
Each degree programme establishes the criteria by which the test is passed and the criteria that assign any Additional Educational Obligations (OFA) to the student.

How to submit the enrolment application

To submit the application for enrolment in national restricted access programmes or local restricted access programmes, students must follow the instructions and comply with the deadlines set out in the calls for admission to the programmes.

Enrolment in the years following the first is possible only if there are places available (see transfers) and if you meet the requirements indicated in the call for admission.

To enrol in unrestrictred degree programmes, the student, after registering with the Online Student Services, must complete the online application according to the deadlines.

At the end of the registration, the online system generates the enrolment fee which must be paid by the deadline for enrolment as provided for in the Study Regulations (see also the tuition fees and contributions section).

Students who have won a Ministry of Foreign Affairs - MAE scholarship, detained or who want to request exemption for sporting merits of particular national and international competitive importance, after enrolment, before paying the fee, must apply for exemption to the Student Office with the MOD form. IS_05 (available on forms), so as to have the fee reduced.

It is possible to fill in the online enrolment application or pay the fee generated by the system even after the deadline, paying an administrative fee of 100 euros.

Within 5 days of payment of the fee, the system assigns the student the identification number ("numero di matricola") and, in the following five days, the institutional e-mail address (with the @edu.unifi.it domain) which must be used to communicate with the University and consulted regularly. Those who have an access qualification obtained abroad do not obtain the identification number automatically, but must wait for the validation of the documents by the Student Office.

The student is given the Studenti della Toscana card which allows access to the services offered to students.

Student with a qualification obtained abroad

Those who have an academic qualification obtained at foreign universities and wish to apply for recognition in the new unrestrictred programme, after enroling online, must submit the application for career shortening to the Student Office (form AB_01 on the forms page) attaching the documents indicated in the How to submit the enrolment application.

Career Abbreviation  

Those who have an academic qualification obtained at Italian universities and wish to apply for recognition in the new ounrestrictred programme must submit the application for career shortening (form AB_01 on the forms page) and attach it to the online enrolment application. 

Those who have an academic qualification obtained at foreign universities and wish to apply for recognition in the new unrestictred programme, after enroling online, must submit the application for career shortening (form AB_01 on the forms page) to the Student Office, attaching the documents indicated in section 4.5.

In addition to the payment of the enrolment fee, the application for enrolment with a shortened term also includes the payment of an administrative fee of 30 euros for the management of the application and the evaluation of the career. If the career shortening is requested separately from enrolment, you must also pay the stamp duty of 16 euros in addition to the charge.

The procedures and terms of recognition of an academic qualification obtained at Italian or foreign universities for admission to years subsequent to the first of courses with restricted access are governed by the calls for admission to the programme.