IMAT Admission Process: how do admissions work?

How do admissions work?

Here, we will discuss admission to public medical schools as a non-Italian applicant (and not the private schools like Milan’s Humanitas, which holds its own separate IMAT, or Rome’s Cattolica, which has its non-IMAT entrance exam).

The most crucial step in admission is to pass the public schools’ IMAT exam. Your school GPA, volunteering, army service, and recommendation letters won’t matter for the selection process (check with your embassy just in case because some countries have specific requirements for student visas).

The IMAT is held annually on different dates (sometimes in September, sometimes in October). When the exact dates for the current year are published, the admission procedure for the test begins online several weeks before the test itself.

Step 0: Start preparing for the exam even if the dates have not been annou nced yet. Sometimes, they announce the dates just several weeks before the test. The tests are usually the same, and the rule changes are few; therefore, look at how it was done last year. Check the documents needed for a student visa and “Dichiarazione di valore” at the Italian embassy near you.

Step 1: When a subscription opens, sign up for the exam online and select your Universities as described in the video here .

Step 2: Do the exam in a center near you (held in 20+ major cities worldwide; an exact lis t will be published when dates come out, but you can check last year’s locations here ).

Step 3: Wait for the release of the results and ranking lists on the website shown in the video (several weeks after the exam).

Step 4: if you’re in, you must fly to Italy with all your documents to complete your enrollment to the University within several days. You might need to arrange a student visa via your embassy beforehand. Some Universities allow to enroll online or via email but it is not the rule, therefore you will need to check that with the University directly.