University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Overview

With around 10,000 students, L’Orientale is a comparatively small, specialised university focused on language and culture studies. It offers teaching and research in many languages, Turkish included.

With its sites in Naples’s historic centre, the university provides a singular academic setting in language, culture and international relations.

The city of Naples and student life

The capital of Campania, Naples is a lively city of history, culture and sea. The cost of living is more affordable than northern Italy’s big metropolises; student life is animated.

Faculties and signature programmes

The fields Turkish students often turn to:

• Languages, literatures and cross-cultural studies
• Asian and African studies
• International relations and political science
• Turkish and Islamic-world studies
• The humanities

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

Language of instruction and language conditions

Programmes are mainly Italian; some are English. The language programmes naturally include teaching in the relevant foreign language too. Italian-taught programmes want a B2 language certificate (CILS/CELI), English-taught ones IELTS/TOEFL.

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 showing the family’s income and assets; low-income students can be largely exempted. The regional grant agency ADISURC Campania (Campania 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 of Naples L’Orientale?

Applying to the University of Naples L’Orientale (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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