IMPORTANT
The main phases of the enrollment process are summarised below. Non-EU candidate students and EU (including Italian) candidate students follow different rules. Note that nonEU
students who already have a visa to study in Italy can directly access the in-person admission/enrollment phase at the University’s student office in Fuorigrotta (Naples).
The steps are listed below.
- Checking of background requisites (basically, the high school diploma must have required at least 12 years of pre-university education + certified English level B2 + CEnT-S with minimum score 9 out of 45 for the sections Mathematics, Reasoning on texts and data, Chemistry and Physics)
- Pre-admission application (for non-EU students), open from February to June, articulated in selection groups and managed at the intake webpage
- Visa application (for non-EU students)
- Admission/Enrollment phase, open from July to late October (often deferred to December), in-person at the University’s Student Office in Fuorigrotta, Naples
- (Italian students can enroll online)
- Start of classes: early-September for the first semester; the beginning of March for the second semester
Please note that in case of delayed visa issuing and consequent enrollment delay, the first semester of the first year can be attened online. However, the examinations can only be taken
in person at the end of the classes and after final enrollment. Indeed, the student status at the University of Naples Federico II is attained only after the final enrolment (in person) in Naples.
The selection for pre-admission only activates the candidate-student status. Attending online classes before final enrollment does not accrue any right to take the examination in the event of failed final enrollment, nor does it accrue any other right.
When the high school diploma has been issued by a non-Italian school, students must apply to embassies or consulates for a document called “Dichiarazione di Valore” or in English “Declaration of Value” where it is stated that the diploma has been obtained after at least 12 years of pre-university education.
Both non-EU and EU candidate students need educational requisites. The following are required as student’s personal preparation: a) logical ability and b) basic scientific knowledge.
- Ability to correctly interpret the meaning of a text. Ability to identify the input data of a problem and to use them to arrive at a solution; ability to deduce the behaviour of a simple system; ability to link results to the hypotheses that determine them.
- Properties and operations on numbers; absolute value; powers and roots; logarithms and exponentials; literal calculus; polynomials; first and second degree algebraic equations and inequalities; systems of first degree equations; measure and properties of segments and angles; lines and planes; properties of the main plane and solid geometric figures; Cartesian coordinates; concept of function; equations of lines and simple geometric loci; graphs and properties of elementary functions and trigonometric functions. Elementary physics and basic knowledge of the structure of matter.
Personal preparation is ascertained by means of a compulsory selective test.
The CEnT-S test is the compulsory selective test, required for admission to the Degree Program and is administred by the CISIA Consortium.
The structure of the CEnT-S for the year 2025-2026 includes 5 sections, for a total of 55 questions:
Mathematics: 15 questions (30 minutes)
Reasoning on texts and data: 15 questions (30 minutes)
Biology: 10 questions (20 minutes)
Chemistry: 10 questions (20 minutes)
Physics: 5 questions (10 minutes).
However, to enroll to the Degree Programme, the answers to the Biology section are not considered!
For the purposes of enrolment, the candidate must reach the minimum threshold of 20% of the maximum score for the test (i.e. 9/45) (note that the answers in the Biology section are not considered in the score).
Admitted candidates who did not score more than 50% of the marks available for the Mathematics section of the test (i.e. 8/15) and at least 23/45 marks overall will be assigned an Additional Formative Obligation (OFA) that requires them to acquire at least 6 University Credits (CFU) in the MATH-03/A or MATH-02/B subject areas before being able to sit any other examinations. In any case, the educational debt must be cleared within the first year of the course.