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THE SCHOOL · ACCREDITATIONS & RECOGNITION

Accreditations & recognition - the official side.

Italian law does not formally accredit stand-alone language schools, so honesty is the only good policy here: we are not "the only government-accredited Italian school", and you should be sceptical of any language school that claims to be. What gives us a different standing is the institutional context we operate within and the international approvals that have been issued to us specifically.

Accreditations & recognition - the official side

Italian law does not formally accredit stand-alone language schools, so honesty is the only good policy here: we are not "the only government-accredited Italian school", and you should be sceptical of any language school that claims to be. What gives us a different standing is the institutional context we operate within and the international approvals that have been issued to us specifically.

Part of Unicollege SSML - a MUR-accredited Italian Higher Institute. Accademia di Italiano operates as part of Unicollege SSML, an Istituto ad Ordinamento Universitario accredited by Italy's Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca (MUR) - the Ministry of Universities and Research. In practice this means our long-term language students sit alongside a fully-fledged university group recognised by the Italian state: they gain access to the academic infrastructure, quality framework and institutional standards of recognised Italian higher education, well beyond what a stand-alone language school can offer. Study-visa eligible long-term courses. Our long-term Italian courses meet the documentation and minimum-hours threshold (at least 80 lesson-hours per month, 16+ weeks minimum) required by Italian consulates for the National Study Visa (Visa D). We issue consulate-grade enrolment certificates and support the residence-permit process after arrival. CSN Sweden - approved school since 2007. Since 2007, Accademia di Italiano is approved by Centrala studiestödsnämnden (CSN), the Swedish national student loan agency - meaning Swedish students can use national student loans to fund a long-term Italian course with us. Documentation we issue. For every student we issue documentation in formats that consulates, prefectures, registrars and U.S. study-abroad offices have learned to accept: enrolment certificate, programme syllabus, weekly hours breakdown, attendance reports, end-of-course certificate with CEFR level achieved. We have done this for over twenty years.

Honest note: previous claims regarding "accreditation by Regione Lombardia" and "FSE - Fondo Sociale Europeo" channels are no longer current and have been removed from this page. We prefer to under-promise on titles and over-deliver on the documentation that actually works at the consulate and the prefecture.