In the last years, the Italian universities have experienced significant changes involving students and governance.  One big issue is the increase of the students’ migration from the Southern regions, while the other direction flow does not occur at all. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the students’ migration from the South to the Central and Northern regions of the country,  in order to quantify their characteristics and to investigate on the “university success”, measured as the time elapsed to get a degree. The data are longitudinal national micro-data, covering the Italian freshmen university careers enrolled in 2008-09, followed up for seven years.  The focus is twofold: the comparison between the students who stay in the same region (stayers) and the students who attend university in another region (movers) and between the Southern movers and their corresponding Northern mates. The first comparison shows that the Southern students performs close to their Northern mates, while the second comparison show how movers are much better than stayers.