Single ranking list for the second semester of Medicine coming soon

The national ranking list for Medicine is coming soon. It will be published on Thursday 8 January on Universitaly, after the conclusion of the filter semester and the publication of the results of the second appeal on 23 December. Students will be able to check their score and seat allocation in their reserved area. Between the two appeals, in November and December, over 21 thousand students were promoted in Biology, over 24 thousand were promoted in Chemistry, and over 11 thousand were promoted in Physics.

In recent weeks, University Minister Anna Maria Bernini gave the go-ahead to the ministerial decree for the composition of the national ranking list outlining the perimeter for access. The decree provided for "direct sufficiencies", which concern grades of 18 or above that were obtained and accepted immediately. The ministry explained that the reinstated sufficiencies make it possible to reinstate the positive grade of the first appeal that was refused, if at the second appeal the grade was insufficient. A choice aimed at protecting "the result already acquired".

Credit recovery concerns cases in which a pass mark has not been achieved in one or two subjects. In this eventuality, the missing credits will be recovered at the university assigned on the basis of the outgoing ranking. This method enables the student not to be excluded from the ranking and to continue his or her course, provided that he or she recovers the credits at a later date. The final score, in any case, is calculated only on the basis of grades equal to or higher than 18: inadequate results do not contribute to the definition of the useful score for the ranking.

On a transitional basis, limited to the 2025/2026 academic year, universities may also provide - at the student's request - that the grades of the filter semester do not count towards the final average, recognising the specificity of this first application of the reform. All students who do not continue in the course will still be able to enrol in any other course even after the deadlines set by the universities' regulations and in any case by 6 March 2026.

In the meantime, the Consulcesi & Partners legal pool announces that it is already at work on appeals against the admission procedure to Medicine, 'to protect all students who will be excluded from a ranking list that is deemed flawed by known irregularities that have not been adequately remedied'. We are faced with an unprecedented paradox: an access designed to be more open that ends up selecting even more rigidly.