University: with 100 or honors, fees are not paid

Also for the academic year 2019/2020, there are some concessions for those who obtained the highest marks in the last state exams. In some universities, such as Pavia, Urbino, Rome Tor Vergata, the University of Marche and the University of Milan, the exemption is total. Substantial discounts are expected elsewhere. But each university establishes its own rules. Skuola.net has discovered where 'centenarians' do not pay the first year's tuition. Most universities, in fact, talk about partial exemptions or minimum contributions. In short, a tax discount 'based on merit' and not, as usually happens, based on economic capacity. However, there are some universities for which 100 and 100 with honours (depending on the case, only the latter or both) are even worth a total exemption from enrolment fees. And universities such as the Roman Tor Vergata, the University of Pavia, the University of Marche, the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, where the first year of courses is free, as well as in the 'Sardinian' Cagliari and Sassari, have received the message. Here, in practice, you only pay the stamp duty and the regional tax. In other universities, however, there is an equal distribution of university fees between the institution and the student: the costs are split in half, 50 and 50. This modality occurs at the University of Roma Tre (for those who obtained at least 95 in the final exam) and at the Federico II University of Naples (only for those who obtained 100 cum laude). Even at the University of Milan the exemption only concerns the 'praiseworthy', but it only cuts the second installment of taxes (only the first one, including the registration fee, has to be paid). In other universities, such as the University of Perugia, there is a concession but it is staggered according to the score obtained in the state exam: total exemption if the student graduated with 100/100 cum laude, 50% reduction for those who achieved 100/100, 25% reduction for those who obtained a score between 95 and 99/100. But the galaxy of benefits for deserving freshmen is much more complex. Many universities, taking advantage of the principle of university autonomy, have over time introduced their own rules. Each structure has its own story. For example, at the University 'La Sapienza' in Rome, students who bring a 100 to their final exams are required to pay a symbolic sum of 30 euros (plus stamp duty and regional tax) to cover all the costs of the first year of lessons. In Genoa, the regulation states that a reduction of 200 euros is foreseen for "students enrolled in a degree course (three-year, master's, single-cycle), who have obtained the qualification required for enrollment with top marks", i.e. the diploma. A particular case is what happens at the Bicocca University of Milan where the following proportional system is in force: "exemption for merit from the payment of the single university contribution due up to a maximum of 204 euros..." intended for students "with a high school diploma grade of 60/60 and 100/100". The same happens in Padua (here the reduction is a maximum of 200 euros, to be applied to the second or third instalment). A detail that also lends a hand to older graduates, who at least graduated twenty years ago. Suppose they want to try college again?