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 room is about 300 per month
• A double room is about 400 per month

Food: € 150 – € 200 per month

The approximate prices of some basic items are listed below (in euros):

• Milk: 1.30 / Litre
• Bread: 4.00 / Kilo
• Butter: 1.70 / 250 gr.
• Beef: 9.00 / 19.00 / Kilo.
• Chicken: 8.00 / 10.00 /Kilo.
• Rice: 1.70 / 2.50 / Kilo.
• Pasta: 0.80 / 1.30 /Kilo.
• Mineral water: 0.50 / 0.80 /Litre

Study costs – € 40 per month

• 1 book: € 15.00
• Photocopies: € 0.05
• Social life – € 80 per month
• 1 coffee in a café € 1.00
• 1 newspaper € 1.30
• Cinema: € 8.00

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: € 10 – 30 per month