University for Foreigners of Siena

Overview

Alongside its intensive Italian language courses at every level, the university runs bachelor’s and master’s programmes in linguistics, the teaching of Italian, language-and-culture mediation and translation.

For Turkish students who wish to learn Italian or to prepare for Italian-taught programmes, the university is an important centre for both the CILS proficiency certificate and academic programmes.

The city of Siena and student life

In Tuscany, Siena is a mid-sized, student-friendly city known for its UNESCO-listed medieval centre. The cost of living is more balanced than in Florence; the international student community is lively.

Programmes and signature fields

The fields Turkish students often turn to:

• Intensive Italian language courses (every level)
• CILS certificate examinations
• Linguistics and the teaching of Italian
• Translation and language-culture mediation
• Italian cultural studies

The university’s English-taught programmes open the door to apply without an Italian precondition.

Language of instruction and language conditions

Teaching is mainly in Italian; language courses are offered at every level. As the university administers the CILS examinations, it is a direct centre for the Italian proficiency certificate.

Application for Turkish students

The application begins with the programme choice and the Universitaly pre-enrolment. A CIMEA or a Dichiarazione di Valore is needed for the degree recognition. The apostilled, sworn-Italian-translated form of your diploma and transcript must stand ready at this stage.

Tuition fees and scholarships

Fees are tiered by the ISEE value; low-income students can be largely exempted. The regional grant agency DSU Toscana (Tuscany DSU) provides housing, food and cash support; the application wants the sworn translation of your income documents and an ISEE Parificato. For detail see our scholarships section.

Which documents should you have sworn-translated for the University for Foreigners of Siena?

Applying to the University for Foreigners of Siena (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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