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Scholarship Holders in Italy

This page publishes data on students receiving regional scholarships in Italy. The data is broken down by region and academic year, starting from the academic year 2000/01

Beneficiaries of regional scholarships in Italy

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  • SOURCE: Observatory processing on data from Office II – MUR, up to 2013/14; ustat.miur.it from 2014/15

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  • From 2012/13, eligible students and scholarship holders are compared to the total number of enrolled students rather than to regular enrolled students, as data on on-time enrolled students is no longer available; the values from the a.y. 2012/13 are therefore not comparable with those of previous years. The data on enrolled students does not include students enrolled in postgraduate courses and AFAM courses, but refers only to students enrolled in universities.

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  • Data for the Autonomous Provinces, starting from the a.y. 2009/10, is collected by the Observatory directly from the Opera Universitaria di Trento and from the Office for the Right to University Education of the Province of Bolzano.

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  • The MUR Statistics Office does not collect eligible candidates by type of resident, commuter, or non-resident student, which is why this value does not appear in the table.

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  • The maximum scholarship amounts for resident, commuter, and non-resident students are collected by Office II – MUR.

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  • A scholarship holder is defined as anyone who benefits from a regional scholarship. An eligible student is a student who meets the merit and financial status requirements to access the scholarship but does NOT receive it due to insufficient financial resources.

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  • Scholarship holders are categorized as: non-resident if they reside in a municipality other than the one where the study program takes place, which cannot be reached by public transport within 60 minutes, and who take up paid accommodation in the municipality where the course is held; commuter if they reside in a municipality other than the one where the study program takes place, but which can be reached by public transport within 60 minutes; resident if they reside in the municipality where the study program takes place.

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  • A regular enrolled student is a student enrolled for no longer than the standard duration of the degree course starting from the year of first matriculation; for example, in the case of enrollment in a master’s degree, the student will be regular if enrolled for no more than two years, calculated from the year in which they first matriculated in the master’s degree.

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  • Regional spending on scholarships, up to 2013/14, was calculated by multiplying the scholarship amounts by the number of scholarships awarded; from the a.y. 2014/15, it is collected by the MUR Statistics Office from the DSU management bodies.

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  • The average scholarship amount awarded results from the ratio between the total expenditure incurred for scholarships and the total number of scholarships awarded.

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  • The scholarship amounts indicated in the table represent the maximum amounts established by the Regions, gross of the deductions that some entities apply for meals and accommodation. The net monetary amount received by students depends on the monetary value of the deductions, which varies from body to body. Within the same region, scholarship amounts sometimes vary slightly depending on the governing body or university institution in which the student is enrolled. Amounts below the maximum amounts, in some cases, can also be significantly lower: for example, in 2011/12, at the Opera Universitaria di Trento, the minimum amount for the non-resident scholarship was 1,200 euros and that for resident students was 500 euros. Under the Italy entry, on the other hand, the amounts set at national level by ministerial decrees and updated annually according to the inflation rate are indicated. Regions cannot establish scholarship amounts lower than these.

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  • From 2011/12 to 2016/17, the Opera Universitaria di Trento distinguished only two types of scholarship holders: resident and non-resident. Resident students were those who resided in a list of municipalities specified in the Call for Applications; all others were considered non-resident provided they proved that they took paid accommodation in the municipality where the study program was held. From 2017/18, the commuter student type was reintroduced.

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