• Pre-evaluation stage required in a mandatory way for access: to all master's degrees (Master's degree) delivered in English and in Italian and ONLY for the degree (Bachelor's degree) in computer engineering - Imperia site delivered in English.
• Pre-evaluation is not required: for all other degrees (Bachelor's degree) or 5-6 years single cycle degrees.

• The submission of the application for a visa on the external ministerial portal to Unige (Universitaly https://www.universitaly.it/ ) is mandatory for all courses.
• Check the dates on Deadlines A.y. 2025/26. Applications submitted after the deadline will be rejected.
• Enter your personal details exactly as shown on your passport. If you have multiple names and/or surnames marked on your passport, please enter them all in the correct order, if the first name or surname entry is blank on your passport, fill it out using an "X".
• The University of Genoa will validate your application and forward it to the Embassy if the application is considered complete. 
• For technical problems related to the operation of universitaly.it and log-in issues, please refer to Universitaly support.
• Please note: on Universitaly you will only be able to choose an Italian University and a course. Once you have submitted your application, if you decide to change university, you will need to ask for the annulment (that is, the rejection of your application by the university for which you submitted it).
• You will then have to complete the procedure for issuing a study visa at the Italian Embassy or Consulate that you indicated when filling out your application on Universitaly. Always check the documents required by your Embassy (in addition to the documents on the title already uploaded to Universitaly) during the appointment phase.
• Attention: University has no power to influence the scheduling of Embassy appointments. Students may report problems, but, unfortunately, we will not be able to take action on this aspect.
• Important communication: Uni-Italia for international students 
  Non-EU applicants living abroad can contact the Uni-Italia centers for information on the Italian system of higher education and for assistance in admission procedures and application for study visas. 
  Link to the Uni-Italia portal https://uni-italia.it/ 

• Start pre-enrollment on UniGe Online Services only AFTER applying for a visa on UNIVERSITALY. It is NOT possible to complete the pre-enrollment in the case of an applicant student who has not previously submitted his application on Universitaly. It is also advisable to wait for validation on Universitaly. 
• Respect the dates when you can submit your pre-enrollment application. See A.Y. 2025/26 Deadlines
• For programmed number courses: check the deadlines provided by the respective calls. Consult the page of calls with programmed number

Registration: get credentials (if required)

• If you do NOT already have UniGePass credentials (student number, example S1234567, and password) to access UniGe Online Services, PROCEED with REGISTRATION.
• Be sure to fill in all fields with the full data, exactly as shown on your passport. 

USE YOUR UNIGEPASS CREDENTIALS (do not re-register) in your possession in cases:

• If you applied for a pre-assessment on UniGeApply, use the same credentials you used to submit your pre-assessment application;
• If in previous years you have already accessed UniGe Online Services.
• More generally, if you have previously registered and obtained UniGePass credentials (even if you have never used them to access the Online Services).

Attention: 

• Do not attempt to make multiple registrations for the same user. 
• The insertion of incorrect personal data may cause a slowdown of the service offered and the impossibility to proceed with the saving of applications on Online Services.
• In case you need a password recovery, change the email address or other actions related to UniGePass credentials consult the dedicated pages https://cedia.unige.it/unigepass-studenti and https://cedia.unige.it/UniGePASS

STEP 2-A: Submission of the application

• Use UniGePass credentials to authenticate and start pre-enrollment application  
  

Read the notes carefully to correctly fill in the application: 

• Click "submit a new application" to get started.
• Courses section: the chosen course must coincide with the application submitted on Universitaly and in the case of pre-selection (if required), with the course for which you have received a positive result. Information for all students: in case of a degree program (Bachelor’s degree or single cycle 5-6 years degree), mark in the options "verification exemption" > no exemption. In the case of a master’s degree course, mark in the options "date verification" > select the first available date; "curriculum requirements" > to be verified; "exemption verification" > no exemption.
• Profile Section: as a student applying for a visa, you will have to tick the option: “I declare to have submitted visa application for the current academic year on ministerial portal Universitaly.it”. If it is not true, make sure to submit the application on Universitaly first and then start your pre-enrollment application”.
• Section Education: the fields that will be automatically filled in the case of selection of foreign diploma (or Italian diploma obtained abroad) or foreign degree must not be modified, indicate that the qualification is obtained in a foreign institution. 
• Documents section: upload only any documents expressly requested by the selected course of study. The documents necessary to finalize the enrollment will be provided with another method upon arrival in Italy.
• If all the sections in the top row are no longer marked in red when you view your application, the information is complete and you can save your pre-enrollment.

STEP 2-B: Final submission of pre-enrollment

Check the status of your application and whether an action is required, depending on the wording that will appear after saving: 

• complete: means that the application has been submitted correctly, no action is required.
• pending approval of the Welcome Office: the application must be viewed by the office as a check with the data on Universitaly is required. Wait for an automatic email that warns you of the unblocking. The procedure is not immediate, wait the necessary time. Once you have received the email, go back to your pre-enrollment application on Unige Online Services and press the "save" button. The application will pass to the "complete" state, see above.
• incomplete: your action is required. For example, the application will be incomplete if it has been unlocked (see previous point) but you have not yet saved it again for final confirmation.
• with errors: the application is not submitted correctly, there is one or more errors in the compilation. An error message is reported. The errors may be due to inconsistencies found by the system on your data (for example, you are a student applying for a visa and you have incorrectly marked as a student already legally resident in Italy). Once the error has been corrected, the application must be saved again.

Please note: you will always receive an automatic email that notifies you that the update (save) action you performed on your pre-enrollment application has been successfully completed.

Attention: if you declare the fake and submit a pre-enrollment application without having previously submitted an application on Universitaly (for the visa application), the pre-enrollment application will be ANNULLED.  

Requirements to begin the enrollment confirmation procedure:

• Regularly submitted pre-enrollment application, “complete” (green writing). It is not possible to proceed if the pre-enrollment application has not been submitted or if the application is in an intermediate state or with errors;
• Arrival in Italy following visa issuance. Documents relating to the visa and receipt of the residence permit request are mandatory required. The request for the first residence permit must be submitted within 8 days of entering Italy, you can proceed by collecting the free kit at a post office. You can find all the information by consulting our dedicated page
• Attention – only in case of enrollment in scheduled courses for which it is necessary to confirm enrollment within a pre-established deadline so as not to lose your place, you can proceed even before arriving in Italy.
• Attention – in case a bridge career is required: you can already submit your final documents online, but you will not be able to confirm enrollment until you have taken all the bridge career exams. Enrollment in the bridge career takes place after arrival in Italy and at the secretariat of your course of study.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR ENROLLMENT   
The procedure is carried out totally online. The presence of the student at the offices is not required, nor the sending of documentation via email for this final phase of the process.  
Check which documents need to be uploaded in order to confirm enrollment

IN CASE OF LACK OF SOME DOCUMENTS (ENROLLMENT WITH RESERVE)  
If the documents listed below in point 1 or point 2 have not yet been obtained, an enrollment with a reserve is possible:

1. Legalization of the qualification or Statement of Verification issued by CIMEA;
2. Declaration of value or Statement of Comparability issued by CIMEA or Diploma Supplement.

Attention: with a conditionally enrollment is not possible to take exams, the student will only be able to follow the lessons.  
However, you will need to complete your enrollment (reserve removal) by providing the missing documents, again via online upload, by 31st January 2026.

How to submit final documentation to confirm enrollment (and monitoring your document file status):

• Collect and upload ALL the required documents, check the list at the following link https://unige.it/en/internazionale/iscrizioni-internazionali/documenti (documents on your stay in Italy, your title and your knowledge of the language), even if some of them had already been uploaded or presented during other steps of the process;
• Warning: if the required documents are not uploaded, it will not be possible to obtain an approval of the document file and the enrollment cannot be confirmed;
• Eligible formats for documents uploaded online: pdf, jpg, jpeg;
• Maximum size of each document: 3MB;
• Until the office takes charge of your document file, you can add additional documents at different times as well. It is recommended to collect all documents and upload them in a short period of time. When the document file passes into a state that cannot be modified by the student, you will see the wording combined with the state of the document file: “attention! The file is in an uneditable state”.
• Request for integration: if one or more documents presented need to be uploaded again (unsuitable or unreadable document) you will receive an email containing a descriptive note of the problem and the link to access to upload a new document.
• You can always independently monitor the status of your document file and consult the notes entered by the office.
• Document File Approval: your file will be approved when all the necessary documents have been submitted, the file and the documents contained can no longer be modified by the student. 
• Approval of the file subject to a reserve: your file will be conditionally approved if some basic documents are still missing. The document file will remain open and the student will be able to upload new documents as soon as the applicant comes into possession of the missing documentation.
• Service “DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT” active from 18th August 2025:
  

Conditions for confirming enrollment:

• Condition which must always be fulfilled: the document file must be in the state “file approved by the office” or “file approved conditionally”;
• In case of enrollment in a master's degree: suitability for the course must have been confirmed by the course of study;
• In the case of a course taught in Italian: verification of a certificate of knowledge of the Italian language or passing the language test organized by Unige or passing the admission test for courses with limited access.

ATTENTION: if you have an Italian language certification recognized by UniGe, you will have to upload the document to the link on the page https://unige.it/en/scuola-lingua-italiana/certificazioni in order to be evaluated and exempted from the Italian language test (not required if a course taught in English has been chosen).

all students will have to take the Italian language test and get at least level A2 (minimum level required only to complete the enrolment). Unige requires level B2. You cannot take the language test only if you have provided a certificate of knowledge of the Italian language recognized by Unige. More information on the Recognized Certifications. You can also take a course independently, we point out the Centro Studi Italiani (with an office in Genoa) issuing a certificate recognized by Unige.
You can find all the information on the required requirements and the Italian language tests (which you should read carefully) at the following page: Test of Italian language

you do not have to demonstrate the knowledge of the Italian language, you can provide a certificate of English proficiency (at least level B2) recognized by Unige or submit a document stating that English has been the medium of instruction (MOI) of the degree you have obtained. In the case of access to a Master’s Degree in English, during the pre-selection on UniGeApply you will be able to provide the document of knowledge of the English language. If you get it later, you can provide it during the pre-enrolment phase or later you can contact the Secretarial Offices of your School of reference to provide the certificate (you can start from corsi.unige.it, search for your course and see the contacts, or see https://unige.it/servizi/segreterie).