Overview

Every year, the University of Turin opens a small number of seats on an English-taught, single-cycle Master's degree — Italy's equivalent of an integrated MD — to candidates who sit the national, MUR-set entrance test commonly known as the IMAT. Turin's Rector, Prof. Cristina Prandi, together with the Director of the Medicine Hub, Dr. Antonella Trombetta, signed off the official bando (call for applications) governing admission for the 2026/2027 academic year to:

• Medicine and Surgery — Medicina e Chirurgia in lingua inglese, Class LM-41
• Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, Orbassano campus (Regione Gonzole, 10)

One quirk worth flagging: the circulated bando text leaves its own protocol number and signing date blank ("Decreto Rettorale n.* del *") — Turin logs those in its internal Titulus protocol system rather than printing them on the document, so don't be surprised if you can't find a decree number quoted anywhere, including here.

This guide walks through the bando in plain English: who can apply, exactly what's due and when, how the test and rankings work, and what happens after you win a seat. It's a summary of a long, dense legal document — you can read the official bando PDF in full, or cross-check anything decision-critical against UniTo's own admissions pages before you act on it. For curriculum, fees and campus life, see our full Turin programme guide; for how this bando fits the national picture, see the IMAT 2026 hub.

Programme & available seats

The degree runs six years, taught entirely in English, under Italy's numero programmato (capped-place) system. The 2026/2027 intake has 102 provisional places, split by candidate category:

These numbers are explicitly provisional in the bando and could still shift if the Ministry issues further decrees. For how Turin's seat count compares elsewhere, see Locomotive's full list of IMAT universities in Italy.

Who's eligible

Applicants need an Italian secondary school diploma, or a foreign qualification recognised as equivalent under current regulations. There's an important catch worth flagging early, though.

EU / non-EU residents already in Italy

This covers Italian citizens, EU citizens, and non-EU citizens who already hold a qualifying Italian residence permit under Article 39(5) of Legislative Decree 286/1998.

Non-EU citizens resident abroad, needing a study visa

Same diploma requirement, plus a separate pre-registration step on the Universitaly platform to start the visa process (details below).

Chinese "Marco Polo" candidates

Candidates already enrolled in the Marco Polo Programme who completed Universitaly pre-registration in 2025 don't need to repeat it for 2026/2027.

The full 2026/2027 deadline calendar

This is the single most important table on this page. The bando is explicit that missing the four-day enrolment window after a ranking round permanently forfeits the place — no excuse reopens it.

All deadlines run on Italian time. The 4-day enrolment window excludes Saturdays and public holidays, per the bando.

How to apply, by candidate category

Registering for the test itself runs through Universitaly, the Ministry's national platform, the same way it does for every Italian university offering the IMAT (see our IMAT 2026 hub for the general mechanics). What Turin's bando adds on top is a set of category-specific steps:

EU and non-EU residents already in Italy

No separate pre-application is needed on the Apply@UniTo platform. If you rank in a useful position, you'll get an email from internationalstudents@unito.it requesting your foreign-qualification documents, so have them prepared in advance. (Details on exactly what's needed are on the UniTo portal, under Internazionalità >> Arrivare in UniTo dall'estero >> Ammissione Studenti internazionali >> Documentazione richiesta.)

Non-EU citizens residing abroad who need a visa

You'll need to complete a pre-enrolment application on Universitaly for the University of Turin and your chosen test site, before the admission test registration deadline, in order to kick off your visa process. If you're admitted, you'll then get the same document-evaluation email from internationalstudents@unito.it.

Chinese "Marco Polo" candidates

If you already completed pre-registration on Universitaly back in 2025, you don't need to repeat it.

Once results place you at Turin

Register for a UniTo portal account (if you don't already have one), then complete pre-enrolment through MyUniTo, under the dedicated "One long-cycle degree programme in Medicine and Surgery" track for your candidate category. From there, the enrolment clock described in Assegnato vs Prenotato below starts running.

Test day & format

The test happens on Tuesday, 29 September 2026, at the same time across every participating Italian university. Turin's exact test venue(s) will be announced separately on the UniTo portal, and that announcement, together with the bando, counts as the only official convocation candidates will get — there's no individual notification, so it's worth checking the portal regularly as the date approaches.

On the day, candidates need a valid photo ID (identity card, passport, driving licence, or similar) and proof of payment of the admission fee; non-EU candidates also need their residence permit or the receipt showing they've applied for one.

The test doubles as a baseline knowledge check. Falling short in a subject area doesn't disqualify a candidate outright — it adds an OFA (Obbligo Formativo Aggiuntivo, an additional learning requirement) to clear during first year; the exact subject thresholds are set by the course's own study regulations rather than the bando itself.

Turin's own decree doesn't reprint the test's internal structure. As the standard IMAT format for 2026, it's 60 multiple-choice questions (biology, chemistry, physics/maths, logical reasoning and reading comprehension) in 100 minutes — see Locomotive's IMAT 2026 hub for the full subject breakdown, scoring rules and syllabus.

"Assegnato" vs "Prenotato": securing your place

This is the part of the process that catches people out. Once rankings are published — and they get updated as places free up — every candidate holds one of two live statuses:

For anyone admitted on the strength of a foreign qualification, payment only becomes possible once the International Students Office has verified that qualification — candidates need to wait for that confirmation email before they're able to pay, even if they're inside the 4-day window.

Support for candidates with disabilities or learning differences

Candidates with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (DSA) who want accommodations must email their certification to ufficio.disabili@unito.it by the test registration deadline, specifying exactly what support they need.

• EES or BES certifications don't qualify for accommodations under current rules; only formal disability or DSA certifications do.
• Certifications issued abroad need a sworn translation into Italian or English.
• With a Legge 104/92 disability certification, or an invalidity rating of 50% or higher, candidates can request assistive aids and/or up to 50% extra time.
• With a DSA certification (Legge 170/2010), candidates can request up to 30% extra time, a non-scientific calculator, a reader who reads the questions aloud, or a video magnifier (a reader can be offered as an alternative to the magnifier).
• Not permitted under any circumstance: dictionaries, formularies, periodic tables, concept maps, or any personal computer, tablet, or smartphone.

Once admitted: mandatory health paperwork

Newly admitted first-year students need to upload, alongside their enrolment documents:

• A vaccination certificate (covering, at minimum, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, Hepatitis B, measles and rubella), legalised where required and translated into Italian, except for documentation already in English.
• Proof of a TB screening: either a Mantoux skin test through a local health authority, or a QuantiFERON blood test as an alternative.

Countries that signed the 1961 Hague Convention can use an apostille instead of full legalisation. Anyone who doesn't have this paperwork ready at enrolment can submit a signed declaration promising to provide it within 30 days, to the Medicine Hub's student office (C.so Massimo d'Azeglio, 60, Torino).

Contacts & who's in charge

All official communication is posted to the UniTo portal; there's no personal outreach to candidates, so it's on applicants to keep checking. Every deadline in the bando runs on Italian time, and payments go through MyUniTo (Tasse section) via the pagoPA platform — a late payment automatically kills that step of the process, no exceptions.

The admission test is overseen by an examination committee chaired by Prof. Benedetta Bussolati (Vice-Chair: Prof. Marinella Clerico; members Prof. Roberto Cirio, Prof. Manuela Donalisio and Prof. Maria Grazia Piancino). Under Italian administrative law, the bando also names the officers formally responsible for each stage of the procedure: Dr. Elisa Rosso for foreign-qualification evaluation, Dr. Antonella Trombetta for applications and enrolment, and Prof. Marina Marchisio Conte for the non-EU/visa applicants' ranking.

Frequently asked questions