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Tuition Fees and Exemptions 2025/2026.

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The Chair

Tuition Fees and Exemptions 2025/2026

Regulations on tuition fees payment and exemption for students enrolled in academic year 2025/2026

Adopted2025/2026Fees

Chair provision

Having regard to

  1. Law no. 508 of 21 December 1999, reforming Academies of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Dance, the National Academy of Dramatic Art, the Higher Institutes for Artistic Industries, Conservatories of Music and equivalent music institutes.
  2. Presidential Decree no. 132 of 28 February 2003, issuing regulations on autonomy criteria for artistic, musical and choreutic institutions pursuant to Law no. 508 of 1999.
  3. Ministerial Decree no. 1016 of 4 August 2021, raising the ISEE income limit for comprehensive tuition-fee exemption.
  4. The Bylaws of the Conservatory of Music Domenico Cimarosa.
  5. The Regulations on administration, finance and accounting of the Conservatory of Music Domenico Cimarosa.
  6. Resolution of the Board of Directors no. 71 of 18 November 2025.

Deemed necessary

  1. To integrate the rules on tuition-fee payment and exemption for students enrolled in academic year 2025/2026.
  2. To define admission fees, state fees, insurance costs, regional fee, comprehensive tuition fees, exemptions, instalments, late payment surcharges, refunds and special-course fees.
  3. To make payment rules clear for enrolled students and external candidates sitting examinations.

Decrees

  1. The Chair adopts the document integrating the Regulations on tuition fees payment and exemption for students enrolled in academic year 2025/2026.
  2. The document is annexed to the provision and forms an integral part of it.
  3. The Regulations apply to all students enrolled at the Conservatory of Music Domenico Cimarosa in Avellino and to external students sitting examinations.
The ChairGiuliana Franciosa

Tuition and exemption rules

Regulations on tuition fees payment and exemption for students enrolled in academic year 2025/2026

The regulation sets payment duties, ISEE thresholds, exemption cases, instalments, surcharges, refunds and special-course fees.

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Introduction

  1. The Regulations apply to all students enrolled at the Conservatory of Music Domenico Cimarosa in Avellino and to all external students sitting examinations.
  2. Enrolled students contribute to educational, scientific and administrative service costs through payment of tuition fees.
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Art. 1 - Tuition fees and admission fees

  1. To sit admission tests for basic, preparatory, Level 1 and Level 2 courses, students must pay a fixed fee of EUR 70 via PagoPA.
  2. Students must also pay EUR 6.04 into Poste Italiane account no. 1016 or by bank transfer to IBAN IT45R 07601 03200 0000 0000 1016 in the name of Tasse governative - Centro Operativo di Pescara.
  3. Payments must be made by the deadline set for submitting the application.
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Art. 2 - Basic and preparatory courses

  1. Students enrolled in basic and preparatory courses must pay state enrolment fees, admission fee, stamp duty, insurance costs and comprehensive tuition fees.
  2. Newly registered students pay the enrolment fee of EUR 6.04; admission fee is EUR 21.43; stamp duty is EUR 16 via PagoPA; insurance is EUR 7 via PagoPA and may vary according to insurance contracts.
  3. Comprehensive tuition fees are paid once upon enrolment. Basic-course brackets: EUR 300 up to ISEE EUR 7,000; EUR 350 from EUR 7,000.01 to EUR 18,000; EUR 375 from EUR 18,000.01 to EUR 30,000; EUR 450 over EUR 30,000.01.
  4. Preparatory-course brackets: EUR 400 up to ISEE EUR 7,000; EUR 450 from EUR 7,000.01 to EUR 18,000; EUR 500 from EUR 18,000.01 to EUR 30,000; EUR 525 over EUR 30,000.01.
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Art. 3 - Level 1 and Level 2 courses

  1. Students enrolled in Level 1 and Level 2 courses pay annual comprehensive tuition fees according to ISEE, taking into account the 2019 Budget Law, Ministerial Decree no. 234 of 26 June 2020 and Ministerial Decree no. 1016 of 4 August 2021.
  2. Students with ISEE of EUR 22,000 or lower are exempt from annual comprehensive tuition fees if they meet the conditions on course duration and CFA achievement.
  3. Students with ISEE from EUR 22,001 to EUR 30,000 pay the annual comprehensive tuition fees according to the related income bracket.
  4. For second-year enrolment, at least 10 CFAs must have been achieved by 10 August of the first year; for later years, at least 25 CFAs must have been accumulated in the twelve months before 10 August preceding enrolment.
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Art. 3.1 - Tuition fees and regional fee

  1. All students, regardless of ISEE, must pay state enrolment fees, admission fee, stamp duty and insurance costs.
  2. Students enrolled in Level 1 and Level 2 courses must pay the regional fee for the right to higher education to ADISURC.
  3. Regional fee: EUR 120 for ISEE-U up to EUR 25,500 and students from least developed countries; EUR 140 for ISEE-U from EUR 25,500.01 to EUR 51,000 and households abroad; EUR 160 for ISEE-U over EUR 51,000.01 or no certified ISEE-U at payment.
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Arts. 3.2-3.4 - Exemption, partial exemption and non-EU students

  1. Students with ISEE-U lower than or equal to EUR 22,000 and meeting Article 3 requirements are exempt from annual comprehensive tuition fees.
  2. ADISURC scholarship beneficiaries and eligible students, honour-loan beneficiaries, students with recognised disability equal to or higher than 66 percent, absolute blindness, hearing-speaking impairment, and qualifying foreign-government scholarship beneficiaries are exempt under the stated conditions.
  3. Students with ISEE-U over EUR 22,000 and up to EUR 30,000 benefit from partial exemption according to percentage reductions and maximum bracket amounts.
  4. Non-EU citizens not residing in Italy, for whom ISEE cannot be calculated, pay a fee of EUR 2,000 in instalments for basic, preparatory, Level 1 and Level 2 courses.
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Arts. 3.5-3.7 - Instalments, late payments and non-payment

  1. Comprehensive tuition fees for Level 1 and Level 2 courses are paid in three instalments, each equal to one third of the amount due; the second and third deadlines are 19 April and 31 May.
  2. Late payment surcharge is EUR 50 for payments up to 15 days late, plus EUR 30 for each additional 15-day delay up to a maximum of two months; late surcharge of EUR 100 applies for each instalment until the end of the academic year.
  3. Failure to pay within the stated deadlines may forfeit enrolment unless justified by appropriate certified documentation.
  4. Students not up to date with payments cannot enrol in the following year, sit final graduation where due, obtain transfer clearance, paid placements or other legal benefits.
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Arts. 3.8-3.14 - Career cases and refunds

  1. Part-time enrolment may be requested by students needing a longer timeframe to accumulate credits and is subject to Director approval.
  2. Graduating students who complete attendance by 31 October are exempt from comprehensive tuition fees and pay only insurance costs if they pass the final examination by the third exam round.
  3. Students outside prescribed time are equated with regular students for fee calculation; after the legal duration plus one year, they are placed in the highest income bracket and lose merit reductions, exemption and refund rights.
  4. Students may interrupt their course for proven reasons, including childbirth, illness, personal reasons, military or civil service, postgraduate school, PhD, military academy, Italian or foreign university attendance or study abroad.
  5. Career restart requires EUR 200 for each year of interruption plus tuition fees due for the renewed enrolment year.
  6. Withdrawal ends student status and career; transfer students are subject to Cimarosa tuition rules; refunds may be requested for non-due payment, overpayment or transfer to another institution.
  7. The EUR 70 admission fee is never refundable.
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Art. 4 - Annual Level 2 Guitar master course

  1. Admission-test participation requires a fixed fee of EUR 50 upon application and EUR 16 stamp duty via PagoPA.
  2. Annual tuition fees for attendance amount to EUR 1,907: EUR 1,400 upon enrolment, EUR 7 accident insurance upon enrolment and EUR 500 by the deadline indicated in the competition notice.
  3. Payments are made to the Conservatorio D. Cimarosa di Avellino bank account with reason Master chitarra, IBAN IT 20 V084 3175 6600 0000 0500 172.
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Arts. 5-7 - Extra-curricular credits, music therapy and single courses

  1. Music Education students under the Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of 4 August 2023 pay EUR 2,500 for 60 extra-curricular credits, proportionally reduced for 30 or 36 credits.
  2. For the preparatory course awarding 48 CFAs in Theories and Techniques in Music Therapy, admission requires EUR 70 fixed fee, EUR 6.04 state tax and EUR 16 stamp duty; annual tuition is EUR 1,000 in three instalments plus EUR 7 insurance.
  3. Single-cycle basic course fee is EUR 300; single-cycle preparatory course fee is EUR 400.
  4. For single-cycle Level 1 and Level 2 courses, fees depend on CFAs: EUR 30 per CFA from 1 to 10 CFAs; EUR 300 plus EUR 25 per CFA from 11 to 20 CFAs; EUR 550 plus EUR 20 per CFA from 21 to 30 CFAs; EUR 750 plus EUR 11 per CFA over 30 CFAs.
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Arts. 8-11 - Stamp duty, references, data processing and entry into force

  1. Applications and documents listed in Article 8 are subject to EUR 16 stamp duty from the outset, including diploma applications, enrolment and attendance certificates, career certificates, enrolment and first-enrolment applications, transfer applications, withdrawals and certificates of examination passed.
  2. Stamp duty must be paid via PagoPA.
  3. For anything not provided for, the general rules and the rules adopted by the Conservatory apply.
  4. Data processing is carried out in compliance with Legislative Decree no. 196 of 30 June 2003 and subsequent amendments.
  5. The Regulations enter into force on the date of publication and apply until any new provision is issued.
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