LIVING COSTS
This is your main cost during University. You are best to plan a budget to include accommodation, food, books, clothes, entertainment, travel and bills like electricity and gas. Considering accommodation, food, telephone, local travel and leisure costs, students should consider a monthly budget of 600/1000 euros depending on the location.
The costs are approximate and should be used as a guide only. To have an idea of the costs in Pavia, here you are some average prices of common goods:
Accommodation: € 250 – € 600 per month
According to the area, the kind of room (single or double) and eventual program benefits the cost may vary.
- A single / double room in a collegio is about 250 – 350 per month
- A single / double room in a private flat is about 300 – 450 per month
- A studio flat is about 600 – 700 per month
Food: € 150 – € 200 per month
The approximate prices of some basic items are listed below (in euros):
- Milk: 2.00 / Litre
- Bread: 5.00 / Kilo
- Butter: 2.60 / 250 gr.
- Beef: 10.00 / 19.00 / Kilo.
- Chicken: 8.00 / 12.00 /Kilo.
- Rice: 1.70 / 2.50 / Kilo.
- Pasta: 0.80 / 1.30 /Kilo.
- Mineral water: 0.50 / 0.80 /Litre
Study costs – € 50 per month
- 1 book: € 15.00
- Photocopies: € 0.05
- Social life – € 100 per month
- 1 coffee in a café € 1.20
- 1 newspaper € 1.50
- Cinema: € 9.00
Eating out: € 20 – 25
- Pizza: € 5-10
- Fast food menu: € 5.50
- Happy hour: € 8-10
- Club and bar: € 10-20
- Concert: € 40-50
- Private gym: € 50-60 /month
- Universities’ structure gym: € 15-20 /month
- 1 pint of beer (birra) at the pub € 5.00
Travel costs – € 25 per month
- 1 bus ticket € 1.30
- 1 single ticket train to Milan € 4.10
- Taxi: € 20-25 cab fare
Mobile Phones: € 15 – 30 per month