Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

Overview

With around 3,000 students, San Raffaele teaches in medicine and surgery (an English-taught MD included), psychology and philosophy. Its small scale and its research-hospital link provide strong clinical and scientific facilities.

A recognised centre in biomedical research, the university stands out for its selective admission structure and its intensive academic environment.

The city of Milan and student life

The capital of Lombardy, Milan is Italy’s economic and cultural hub. The campus is around the San Raffaele hospital; housing costs are high.

Programmes and signature fields

The fields Turkish students often turn to:

• Medicine (MD) — Italian and English
• Psychology
• Philosophy
• Biotechnology and the life sciences
• The health professions

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

Language of instruction and language conditions

Some programmes are in Italian, the English-taught medicine programme is in English. English-taught medicine wants the IMAT and IELTS/TOEFL; Italian-taught programmes want a language certificate and an entrance exam.

Application for Turkish students

The application is made through the university’s own admission system; for the official procedures in Italy (pre-enrolment, residence, degree recognition) the Universitaly and CIMEA or Dichiarazione di Valore are needed. At this stage the apostilled, sworn-Italian-translated form of your diploma and transcript must stand ready.

Tuition fees and scholarships

As a private (foundation) university, the fees are higher than at the state universities; in many programmes the fee is tiered by the family income (ISEE). The university’s own merit and need scholarships provide important support; in some cases the regional DSU provision (housing, etc.) can be drawn on too. Scholarship applications want the sworn translation of your income documents and, where needed, an ISEE Parificato. For detail see our scholarships section.

Which documents should you have sworn-translated for Vita-Salute San Raffaele University?

Applying to Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (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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