University, Nursing Orders: “Good +2.3% places available and flexibility of rankings”

“There are 20,525 places available for Nursing degrees for the 2024-2025 academic year and 279 for pediatric nurses. In addition to these, there are 523 places for nurses and 22 for pediatric nurses reserved for candidates from non-EU countries residing abroad. Compared to the places available for the previous academic year, the MUR has foreseen 466 more (+2.3%) for Nursing, but with an important innovation that will allow better use of vacant places in some universities: the flexibility of the rankings to allow eligible candidates to have further opportunities to access the degree course”. This is underlined by the National Federation of Nursing Professions (Fnopi), which in a note analyses the decree on the matter by the Minister of University and Research, issued after having acquired the indication on the need provided by the Ministry of Health and the Regions, “whose request was higher because it referred to the need and not to the training capacity of the universities that the MUR must take into account – specifies Fnopi – and in line with that formulated by the federation” itself.

“The decree – Fnopi highlights – states that ‘any unused places in the ranking list for candidates from non-EU countries residing abroad’ are made available ‘within the places reserved for students from EU and non-EU countries residing in Italy, in good time for the scrolling of the relative rankings and without prejudice, where possible, to any compensation between universities within the same quota reserved for students from non-EU countries residing abroad’. Furthermore, according to the decree, the places that become vacant due to any exits of the student from the cohort to which they belong are filled with public selections announced by the universities and on the basis of specific merit rankings”.

“Greater flexibility, therefore – comments Fnopi – to not leave open positions. This method, together with other issues addressed in the discussions, represents a confirmation of the attention paid to the ‘nursing question’ by the Mur”.