Study Medicine at University of Parma

Overview

Medicine and Surgery is a 6-year, 360-CFU single-cycle master's degree (degree class LM-41) taught entirely in English at the University of Parma's Piacenza seat, activated from the 2021-22 academic year. It is the University of Parma's English-language medical programme, created to strengthen the region's medical education offer, increase internationalisation, and build on the healthcare infrastructure of the Piacenza area. Admission is nationally programmed (100 places) via the IMAT (International Medical Admission Test), and applicants must also hold a B2-level English certification. The course is organised into 12 semesters covering preclinical foundations, integrated clinical disciplines, public health, and a final year of qualifying internship and thesis.

At a glance

Seats: official MUR bando D.M. 599/2025 (Tabella B).

Degree

LM-41

Duration

6 years

Language

English

Campus

Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna (teaching seat in Piacenza; the degree belongs to the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Parma, Via Gramsci 14, Parma)

University founded

962

Cut-off trend

How the IMAT admission threshold moved from 2021 to 2025 — EU-pool and non-EU shown separately, on the 0–90 score scale.

Tuition & fees

Italian public-university fees are income-linked (ISEE) for EU/resident students, with fixed bands for international applicants whose income is abroad.

Italian public university: student contribution is ISEE-income-linked, calculated individually and proportionally to ISEE, also factoring merit (CFU earned), enrolment seniority and disciplinary area. No-tax area confirmed at ISEE up to €27,000 (higher than the ministerial threshold). Students with ISEE above €70,000, or who do not submit ISEE data by the deadline, pay the maximum absolute contribution set for their disciplinary area and merit/seniority band. The exact maximum euro figure for the health/medical disciplinary area is published in a separate PDF table that could not be extracted, so euMax is left blank. No separate fixed non-EU/international tuition fee is published on the official fees pages (fees are ISEE-based for all). Note: non-EU students may separately opt into the Italian National Health Service (SSN), a voluntary health-registration cost (~€700/year single, higher with dependents) that is NOT tuition.

The programme

• 6-year single-cycle programme worth 360 CFU, organised into 12 semesters (EQF level 7)
• Semesters 1-3: foundational sciences (morphology, biochemistry, molecular and functional sciences)
• Semester 4: pathophysiology and clinical microbiology
• Semesters 5-9: integrated clinical disciplines with biomedical technology
• Semester 10: public health, healthcare systems and clinical risk management
• Semesters 11-12: clinical practice, qualifying (professionalising) internship and thesis; clerkships include a biomedical research clerkship (end of year 2), a general clinical rotation (end of year 4) and a specialised clinical rotation (end of year 5)

How to get in

Admission to University of Parma's English-taught Medicine is through the IMAT — 60 questions in 100 minutes, scored +1.5 / −0.4 / 0 (max 90). You list University of Parma among your university preferences on Universitaly, and places are filled by a single national merit ranking against the 120 seats above.

Living in Piacenza

Piacenza is a city of roughly 100,000 inhabitants in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, about 60 km from Parma (30-40 minutes by train). The English-taught Medicine course gives the city a dedicated medical-student presence, drawing a substantial international student cohort.

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