College in Italy?

Question

I want to go to college in Italy. I am an American but I also have Italian citizenship. I have heard of the American University of Rome and John Cabot University, but I can't get financial aid if due to being located outside the US territory and therefore only allows me to access Subsidized or Unsubsidized loans.

**Are there any other schools you might reccommend?

Answer 1

in Italy we haven't college like in US... we have "università". they are school  where you go to attend the lesson... but you haven't a

dormitory!

you have to think about a home in Roma or where you want go... but remember that Roma (or any Italian city) are very very expensive!!!

ciaooooooooooo!

Answer 2

There are two kinds of Universities in Italy, public and private. Some of the public universities in Italy are among the oldest and most famous in the world (e.g. the origins of what is now Bologna university date back to AD 1088), but are also chronically overcrowded and underfunded.

Some of the Italian public and private universities are also renowned in certain fields of studies (e.g. Politecnico di Torino for automotive engineering, Politecnico di Milano for industrial design, Università "Luigi Bocconi" in Milan for business administration, Università "Ca' Foscari" in Venice for eastern languages, and so on).

Having Italian citizenship could be an advantage (you won't have to apply for a student visa and prove your Italian language proficiency before applying for enrollment), but you will have to brush up your language skills anyway, as the classes are all taught in Italian.

Life in Rome and Milan for a student on a shoestring budget could be expensive, but if your family has relatives in Italy living somewhere near an University, you could try to contact them and ask them for advice on how to find suitable accommodation. There are many universities in Italy, also in places off the beaten track like l'Aquila, Urbino, Camerino, Siena, Padova, etc., and it shouldn't be difficult to find one which could have interesting faculties and courses.

In the CINECA website there is a search engine for Italian universities, and CINECA itself (which is a consortium among 32 Italian universities and several other research institutes) has an English web page.

In the 1960s and 1970s it was very common for American students of Italian descent who wanted to become doctors but either could not afford the high costs or get past medical school admission tests in the US to enroll in an Italian university, earn their MD diploma and then go back to the US and get their degree recognized. More or less like those who go to Grenada nowadays.

The first step is to contact the Italian Consulate or IIC (Istituto Italiano di Cultura) nearest to your place of residence, and get some basic info on how to have your high school diploma legalised and translated into Italian, because you will need it for your enrollment process.