Sant’Anna School (Pisa)

What kind of institution is it?

Sant’Anna is not a traditional university but a highly selective “scuola superiore”. Undergraduates are enrolled at the University of Pisa while winning the institution’s honours programme through a competitive examination; it also has strong doctoral programmes.

Small and elite with around 800 students, the institution offers an intensive, applied research environment in robotics, economics, law, agriculture and medicine.

The city of Pisa and student life

In Tuscany, Pisa is a university city known for its scientific and engineering tradition. Sant’Anna’s campus is in the city centre; together with SNS and the University of Pisa it makes for a dense academic community.

Programmes and levels

Programmes concentrate in the applied sciences:

• Robotics and bioengineering (world-class)
• Economics and management
• Law
• Agricultural sciences
• Medicine and doctoral (PhD) programmes

Admission and selection

Admission rests on a highly selective, subject-specific competitive examination. There may be separate assessment processes for international students; places are limited and competition is high.

Fees, housing and grant

For admitted students, tuition is free; halls, meals and a regular financial allowance are provided. Sant’Anna thus offers a fully-funded, merit-based education, independent of financial means.

Language of instruction

At undergraduate level teaching is mainly in Italian; the doctoral and research work runs largely in English. Italian proficiency is needed for the honours programme; English is expected for doctoral applications.

Application for Turkish students

Applying from Turkey, for the degree recognition and the official procedures in Italy the Universitaly pre-enrolment, a CIMEA report or a Dichiarazione di Valore are needed. For your academic application file, the sworn translation of your diploma, transcript and supporting documents must stand ready.

Which documents should you have sworn-translated for the Sant’Anna School (Pisa)?

Applying to the Sant’Anna School (Pisa) (or to a programme in the same city), most documents issued in Turkey need a sworn Italian translation. The most-translated documents in master’s, doctoral and bachelor’s applications:

• The diploma (bachelor’s/master’s) and, where applicable, the provisional graduation certificate,
• The transcript and the diploma supplement,
• The course contents (where a recognition/compatibility assessment is needed),
• The income and financial documents (for the DSU grant and the ISEE Parificato),
• The statement of intent, CV and references (in Italian or English, by the programme’s language).

The order generally runs: the document is apostilled first, then sworn-translated into Italian from the apostilled version, and where needed the degree recognition (a CIMEA report or the consulate Dichiarazione di Valore) is obtained. For detail see our apostille guide, CIMEA recognition, Dichiarazione di Valore and Universitaly application pages. For document-level detail, the diploma-transcript translation and university application translation pages help.

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