Study Medicine & Dentistry at Sapienza University of Rome

Overview

Sapienza University of Rome, founded in 1303, is a large public university in Rome that offers a six-year, English-taught single-cycle Medicine and Surgery degree (course "F", class LM-41) and a six-year English-taught Dentistry and Dental Prosthodontics degree (class LM-46). The Medicine "F" programme is run across Sapienza's medical faculties with teaching based at the Policlinico Umberto I University Hospital and the main campus. Admission to both is through the national IMAT entrance exam. As a public Italian university, tuition is ISEE income-linked, with a no-tax-area exemption for lower incomes up to a published annual maximum plus fixed regional and stamp charges.

At a glance

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

Degree

LM-41 (Medicine and Surgery); LM-46 (Dentistry and Dental Prosthodontics)

Duration

6 years

Language

English

Campus

Rome (Lazio). Teaching at the main Sapienza campus and the Policlinico Umberto I University Hospital; Dentistry within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (Dept. of Odontostomatological and Maxillo-Facial Sciences).

University founded

1303

Cut-off trend

How the IMAT admission threshold moved from 2016 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.

Public university with ISEE income-linked fees. Total exemption ('no-tax area') for first-year Bachelor's/Master's students with ISEE not exceeding €24,000; contribution then scales up to the standard maximum (published first-bracket total €2,821 / second-bracket total €2,924 for 2025-2026), plus a fixed €140 regional tax and €16 stamp duty. Non-EU students with foreign income (who cannot submit an Italian ISEE) pay a fixed contribution that varies by country of origin — the exact per-country euro amounts were not found on an official English page.

The programme

• Single-cycle master's degree ('Laurea magistrale a ciclo unico'), 6 years, delivered entirely in English
• Medicine 'F' is an inter-faculty course run jointly across the Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine, Medicine and Dentistry, and Medicine and Psychology
• Classes for Medicine 'F' are held at the departments of the Policlinico Umberto I hospital and on the main Sapienza campus
• Dentistry (LM-46) structure: a first two-year period of basic sciences (anatomy and functional basis of the human body), a three-year period of medical, surgical and specialist disciplines focused on dental pathologies, and a final year devoted to acquiring professional/clinical skills
• Admission for both programmes is via the national IMAT entrance examination

Teaching hospitals

How to get in

Admission to Sapienza University of Rome's English-taught Medicine & Dentistry is through the IMAT — 60 questions in 100 minutes, scored +1.5 / −0.4 / 0 (max 90). You list Sapienza University of Rome among your university preferences on Universitaly, and places are filled by a single national merit ranking against the 58 seats above.

Living in Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and of the Lazio region, with roughly 2.7 million residents in the city proper, and is one of Italy's largest student hubs; Sapienza is among the largest universities in Europe by enrolment.

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