During your university career, you can make a request (only once) to temporarily suspend your study. This suspension period is not included in the calculation of loss of student status and it cannot be:
- higher than the normal duration of the study programme: 3 years for Laurea (equivalent to Bachelor of Science), 2 years for Laurea magistrale (equivalent to Master of Science), 5 years for the single cycle programme in Building Engineering/Architecture
- lower than one academic year
During the suspension period, you cannot attend didactic activities, you cannot participate in the assessment tests; obtain changes of programme, transfers or other administrative measures, you cannot obtain financial aid. Furthermore, for the whole suspension period, you cannot register to exams. If you are a student with non-EU citizenship, you will not be able to get useful certificates to the issuing of the residence permit.
How to request for suspension of study
You may submit a request for suspension at any time during the academic year, but you must be up to date with all the payments due up until the last academic year in which you enrolled.
Request the suspension of your studies by entering the Online Services > Career > Suspension or Withdrawal Requests follow the procedure indicated in the specific application, completing it with payment of the requested amount (revenue stamp plus any outstanding amounts).
Payment is required to complete your request and can be made, by the indicated due date, once the request has been submitted, by selecting whether to pay immediately via prepaid credit card or subsequently via home banking.
What you need to know
If you do not resume your studies within the maximum period of suspension, you will lose the student status.
If you have already asked for administrative acts in the current academic year (e.g. you have already paid the first instalment of university tuition fees, you have already submitted the Study Plan, you have already taken part in evaluation tests, etc.), you cannot apply for suspension from the current academic year.
Resumption of studies
If you want to resume your studies after a period of interruption, you must contact the Registrar’s Office to request that the amount of the payment be made available in the Online Services. We suggest you to regularize your position within the deadline provided for payment of 1st instalment of the ongoing academic year tuition fees, in order to not pay the additional late payment for payment of 1st instalment in late.
Attention: it is possible to resume your studies only if your condition is not of "loss of student status".