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Study in San Marino: universities, tuition fees and admission

Our catalogue has 2 universities and colleges in San Marino offering 5 undergraduate programmes in 2 cities. 5 of the programmes are at public institutions and 0 at private ones.

Universities

2

Programmes

5

Cities

2

EU fee / year, public

€2,500

Non-EU fee / year, public

€2,500

Always check current information on the official website of the university before you apply.

How admission works

You apply online through the university's student portal (esse3); San Marino has one university, the University of the Republic of San Marino, and several of its bachelor's programmes are run jointly with the universities of Bologna, Modena and Reggio Emilia or Parma. You need a secondary school diploma; a foreign diploma must come from at least 12 years of schooling and be accompanied by a translation, legalisation and declaration of value. Design (120 places) and Communication and Digital Media (60 places) select through an admission test or interview held in several rounds between spring and September, with a €50 application fee; the engineering and surveying programmes have open access with enrolment from mid-July to 31 October (dates of the 2026 intake; the 2027 calendar is published in early 2027). Teaching is in Italian, and applicants whose native language is not Italian must show their Italian at the interview.

• Selection: entrance exam

Tuition fees in San Marino

At public universities an EU student typically pays €2,500 a year, and a student from outside the EU €2,500 a year. All amounts are per year in euros; fees charged per credit or per semester are converted to a full year (60 ECTS credits or two semesters).

Where the fee depends on family income, the typical figure is the full fee and the range starts at the lowest one.

Good to know about fees

• San Marino: The University of San Marino charges one fee per programme for every student, with no difference between Sammarinese, EU and other students: €2,800 a year for Design and for Communication and Digital Media, €2,500 for Management Engineering and €2,000 for Civil Engineering and for Construction and Land Management (2026/27), paid in three instalments. Students with a disability of 66% or more and students over 65 are exempt; a 34–65% disability gives 50% off.

Language of instruction

Italian: 5 programmes.

Map of universities in San Marino

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Where to study: cities

All 2 universities in San Marino by city

What you can study

• Design 1
• Journalism 1
• Civil Engineering 1
• Building Engineering 1
• Industrial Engineering 1