This article focuses on Italy's Higher Education reforms and hotly debated developments. These developments are experience credits and online universities. The reform replaced the existing degree system, in which most undergraduate programs lasted four years--although the average graduate actually took more than seven years to earn a degree--with a two-cycle system consisting of a three-year "foundational" laurea followed by an optional two-year "specialization" degree. Moreover, with the implementation of the new degree system, university boom has raised concerns at the highest levels. Furthermore, this article presents the experience of a 49-year-old tax accountant and a law student Lanfranco Fichera. His experience reflects some of the changes enacted by the Italian government to increase access to higher education and raise the country's notoriously low graduation rates.