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Admission to Medicine: timing, locations and new places. Everything you need to know

From location to possible new places: several dates to keep in mind in the coming weeks in view of the second semester

by Rome Editorial Staff

12 January 2026

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Key points

Enrolment in the "first useful location"
Less than a week to register
From 16 January seats may become available
Changes from second semester

3' min read

Translated by AI

Versione italiana

With the publication of the national rankings for access to the Medicine Faculty, with around 22,000 eligible students (including students who passed only one out of three exams), a few decisive dates remain to be observed.

By accessing the reserved area, it is possible to check the marks obtained, information to be used 'for all activities related to the assignment and subsequent enrolment/enrolment in the single-cycle degree course in which the student has completed the filter semester'.

Registration, in fact, is for those who have passed all the tests (approximately 7,600 people). The application for enrolment, on the other hand, can also be submitted with one or two debts, which must be made up by the end of the first semester, with dates and methods of remedial tests varying for each university.

Enrolment in the "first useful location"

The first point is location. The annex to the Ministry of Universities Decree No. 1115 of 22 December 2025 explains that "the student is matriculated/enrolled, in accordance with the provisions of Article 2, paragraphs 1 and 2 of this decree, at the first useful location, in the order of the preferences indicated, on the basis of the score obtained, calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 1, paragraph 4 of this decree, and the number of places available".

Locations can be within the universities themselves. One case concerns the university of Tor Vergata. For 220 eligible students in the national ranking, the Albaniansite, the Catholic university Our Lady of Good Counsel, was assigned, having indicated it among the possible options. The annual fee is higher, from 9650 euro, and does not take into account the Isee. These days, Tor Vergata informs us, "a further step has been agreed between the two universities to instal the annual fee in three instalments".

Less than a week to register

The second point also clarifies the aspect concerning registration dates. Enrolment, which can be carried out as of today, must be completed, "under penalty of forfeiture, by 14 January 2026". The confirmation can be verified by 14 January 2026 at 2pm, when each university, through its own reserved site, will have to communicate the names of the enrolled students.

Students who do not register in time have the option of registering and continuing their studies in one of the related courses

From 16 January, places may become available

Not only that. Because those who do not register will leave a vacancy, which would eventually be 'used for subsequent allocations from day 16 January 2026'.

From that day, until 11.59 p.m. on 19 January, students who did not gain access to their chosen locations due to score issues "may proceed to further choices of all available locations, where places remain". To do so, they will have to apply online through the Cineca Universitaly portal, where the locations of universities with remaining places are indicated.

The next steps are the same, but with new dates: "as of 21 January 2026 the student shall register/enrol" and must do so, "under penalty of forfeiture, by 24 January 2026". Then, "theranking list pertaining to each single-cycle degree course in medicine and surgery, dentistry and dental prosthetics, and veterinary medicine is published on the reserved site on 28 January 2026".

Changes from the second semester

During the first year, if a university has 'residual educational capacity', it may accept applications from students for a change of venue if it ascertains the existence of grave reasons duly documented.

From the second year onwards, enrolments may take place - after recognition of credits and propaedeuticity - following retirement from studies, seat transfers or transfers to other courses.

The text emphasises, however, that 'no additional places are programmed in the years following the first, since the annual programming refers to admissions to the first year of a degree course by students who pass the filter semester referred to in the aforementioned legislative decree. The available places are determined solely by the facts that give rise to the vacancy in the respective years". Finally, "under no circumstances are students allowed to enrol in excess of the cohort to which the enrolments refer".

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