Applications for the Foundation Year 2025/2026 are organised in three intakes:
Applicants will be evaluated on their motivation to study our programme, and on their eligibility in terms of the requirements outlined
During the application process students should regularly monitor the inbox and the spam folder of the email address they used as the main contact in their application, as well as the application portal directly.
You application will be submitted entirely online through our online application portal.
Students must first create an account, and can then start to fill out the application for the Ca' Foscari Foundation Year. For assistance, please read the Handbook above.
Once we have evaluated and approved your documents, you will receive an email to let you know your application has be sent to the Admissions Committee for acceptance into the programme. Your application status at this stage will be "Ready for Admission Committee". If there are mandatory documents missing from your application, you will be notified and will have 7 days to send them to us.
If the Admissions Committee approves your application you will be sent a letter of eligibility with which you can request a visa, along with confirmation of admission or of conditional admission (if there are outstanding documents required for enrolment). If your application is not approved, you will receive a letter of rejection explaining why your application has failed.
Please note that we aim to reply to your application within a month; please do not send emails requesting early admission approval - we will reply to all applications in the order in which we receive them.
To accept your place within the program you must pay the first fee installment of €300 within 10 days after you have been accepted or conditionally accepted onto the programme.
The payment must be made online. Once you have been accepted (or conditionally accepted), you will see that your application will have a new task to resolve (Application Fee Payment FY), and you will receive an email with all the relevant information on how to pay.
Important: once you have carried out your payment, you will have to click a second time on the payment link to finalise the process; the status will then change to "PAID" and the task will be resolved.
Please note that the first fee instalment is non-refundable under any circumstances. Students will be sent our Terms & Conditions of enrolment once they have been accepted or conditionally accepted.
Following the payment period for the first fee instalment for all candidates (approximately in June), our office will send confirmed students information on how to reserve accommodation at the student residence, and how to apply for a fee reduction.
We will also notify you if your chosen Study Track or language module has not been activated and you will have the chance to transfer into another option. The approximate period for this will be the end of July.
Students who receive conditional admission are required to send us their outstanding documents as follows:
All NON-EU students are required to request a Visa through the procedure on Universitaly by July 31st.
We aim to review your visa application and send it for approval (or rejection) at the Embassy/Consulate within 2 weeks.
Students who fail to integrate their documents, or request a Visa, by the deadlines above will be withdrawn from the programme.
The final step for enrolment, and for being able to start the programme, is through payment of the second fee instalment €1700. You will receive a link so you can pay online.
Students who do not make the payment on time will be withdrawn from the programme. The second fee instalment is only refundable if a student receives a visa denial.
Following payment, students will receive an updated status within their online application along with a confirmation of acceptance letter.
Final enrolment in the programme will take place in September.
Total tuition is €5,000 to be paid in three instalments:
Tuition includes all teaching activities and tutorials, and all University administrative and support services. Extra curricular activities, transport, accommodation and living expenses, if any, must be covered by the student.
Every year, a limited number of fee reductions of €2.000 per student are available for the Ca' Foscari Foundation Year. The fee reductions are assigned on the basis of merit and motivation, and are applied to the third fee instalment.
The first fee instalment is non-refundable. Students withdrawing from the programme following payment of the second fee instalment will receive a refund if they have been denied a visa (documentation is required).
Students who are unable to meet the payment deadlines will be promptly withdrawn from the program without reimbursement, unless specific arrangements have been made in advance, and in exceptional circumstances only.
All admitted students will receive our Terms & Conditions by email along with their letter of eligibility.
