Italy

• Membership in EQAR
  Italy has been a Governmental Member of EQAR since June 2018.

  Read more: all Governmental Members of EQAR

• General information on higher education

  Higher education in Italy is offered by universities (including polytechnics), arts and music higher education institutions (alta formazione artistica e musicale - AFAM), higher schools for language mediators (scuole superiori per mediatori linguistici - SSML) and higher technical institutes (ITS).

• National external quality assurance requirements

  Quality assurance in higher education is carried out through internal institutional evaluation and external evaluation by the national quality assurance agency. The system for external review (AVA) was put in place in 2013 and revised in 2016 (see Ministerial Decree 987/2016).

  • Institutional accreditation
    Takes place every five year.

  • Programme accreditation
    Takes place every three year.

• Cross-border quality assurance

  Read more: countries where higher education institutions may choose a suitable EQAR-registered agency

• European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes

  In Italy the European Approach is not available to higher education institutions.

  Read more: countries where the European Approach is available to higher education institutions

• Further information

  • Normative requirements on quality assurance (in Italian)

  • Law no. 240 of 20/12/2010 on the organization of universities, academic staff and recruitment (in Italian)

  • Ministry responsible for higher education

  • Italy - European Higher Education Area

  • ENIC NARIC

Registered agencies operating in Italy