The Italian Higher Education System

Higher education in Italy falls into three distinct categories:

– university education,

– higher-level artistic and musical training,

– higher-level technical training and other higher education opportunities.

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The entire sector, but especially the university education category, underwent a radical renewal at the end of the 1990s, motivated both by choices of national significance and by the desire to bring the system into line with the European model outlined by the Bologna Process, which Italy has helped to promote from the outset.

In March 2010, along with the Bologna Process’ decade anniversary,  during the Budapest-Vienna Ministerial Conference, was launched the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) to ensure more comparable, compatible and coherent systems of higher education in Europe.