On May 10, 2009, the Women's Section was opened in the presence of Minister Mariastella Gelmini and Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi; it is intended to accommodate approximately fifty of the most deserving female students from the University of Pavia.

Also on the south side are "Sangiovannino alto" and "basso" ("Upper" and "Lower"), saved from the Church of San Giovanni in Borgo before demolition in the nineteenth century.

The floor is the original sixteenth-century one, in Lombard terracotta, with the typical two-tone veins reminiscent of wood, while the choir was added in the nineteenth century.

[8] The archive of the Collegio Borromeo preserves not only the documentation concerning the institution (including the bull issued by Pope Pius IV on October 15, 1561 with which the college was established), but also part of the archive of the monastery of San Maiolo, the whose landed properties passed to the college in 1564, documentation donated by former students or university professors and the photo library, partially digitized.

Among the numerous archival collections we mention: The Possessions Fund (chronological extremes 1320-1900): which collects the documentation concerning both the construction of the college building and the numerous possessions, especially agricultural, of the college and Parchment Fund (982-1776): it preserves 446 parchments, most of them, about 350, coming from the archive of the monastery of San Maiolo and concerning, above all, the landed properties of the monastery.

The Italian one, from the 16th-17th century, is characterized by low regular hedges arranged geometrically, symmetrical with respect to the central axis that goes from the iron portal to the fountain, both by Francesco Maria Richini.

[10] The Horti Borromaici are a vast urban park (which extends for about 3.5 hectares) located within the historic center of Pavia, between the Collegio and the Ticino, where the natural habitat meets contemporary art, knowledge and social inclusion.

They were born in the second half of the sixteenth century, when they began to be exploited for the cultivation of fruit plants, vineyards and garden products necessary for the sustenance of the students of the college.

In 2022, the administration of the Almo Collegio Borromeo decided to redevelop the area, transforming the Horti into a large public space, open for free.

of contemporary art, where works by: Arnaldo Pomodoro, Nicola Carrino, Gianfranco Pardi, Luigi Mainolfi, Marco Lodola, Mauro Staccioli, Salvatore Cuschera, Ivan Tresoldi and David Tremlett are exhibited.

The first part of the competition includes a written test administered by the IUSS, divided into the following disciplines: Italian, Latin, History, Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

Giorgio Vasari, Alessandro Manzoni and Cesare Angelini have given descriptions of the college and the building was used as a film set for Le cinque giornate by Dario Argento and for Liberi, armati e pericolosi by Romolo Guerrieri.

Currently, a substantial part of the academic staff at Pavia (around 250 professors, researchers and graduate students) come from the Almo Collegio Borromeo.