Every year, 134,000 students leave the South to choose universities in the Centre-North, said the Censis-Confcooperative’s South, the great drain report.
€157 million evaporates from the coffers of Southern universities each year, with the wider economic cost much larger, said the report.
In the Centre-Northern universities, the higher tuition fees (€2066 compared to €1173 in the South) generated €277 million in revenue.
Furthermore, in 2022, 23,000 graduates from the South chose the Central-Northern regions as their work destination.
In 2024, another 13,000 crossed national borders, meaning a total of 36,000 young graduates left Southern Italy.
ANSA
