Study Abroad Italy aims to create a comfortable living environment for each student by providing safe, well maintained student-level housing in quality apartments. Our staff will be on hand to greet and help orient you to your new apartment and city, and they will remain available throughout the term to answer questions and assist with maintenance needs that may arise.
SAI, with our rental agency partners, offers shared student apartments, but students are also free to arrange their own accommodations.
Shared Student Apartments
- Students are placed with other (usually US) SAI students in apartments that are privately owned and located in buildings shared by Italian residents.
- A typical residence will house 2-6 students, and contains a combination of single (1 student per room) and double (2 students per room) bedrooms and shared kitchen, bathroom and living areas.
- Apartments INCLUDE:
- furnishings
- basic kitchen supplies
- bed linens
- washing machine
- Apartments DO NOT INCLUDE :
- towels
- land line telephones
- clothers dryer
Housing Requests
- Housing requests are made by submitting a "housing request form" with your application.
- Applications are processed when payment of your security deposit has been made to SAI.
- Single room requests must be accompanied by an additional single room supplement fee of $1000 per semester or $350 per summer/intersession term.
- Single room requests are processed when your single supplement fee is received.
- Roommate requests must be mutual; both you and your roommate must clearly write each other's name on the housing request form.
Housing Assignment Confirmation
- Housing assignments are emailed by SAI California TWO weeks prior to the start of the term.
- Roommate contact information is emailed ONE week prior to the start of the term.
Arrival
- Students will receive written arrival instructions in their housing assignment letter.
- Please plan to arrive on housing move-in day. Apartments will not be available for early check-in. Any students arriving early should make prior arrangements to stay at a local hotel until check-in day.
The majority of SAI students are 18-22 years of age. We have found that placing students over 25 with students between the ages of 18-22 has not been successful for either age group. Therefore, we encourage students over 25 to contact our partner agencies to arrange for private studio or one bedroom apartments directly with the agency. Please contact housing@studyabroaditaly.com for agency recommendations.
There are occasionally multiple older students enrolled, which allows SAI to place those students together in shared housing. It is not our intention to deny housing to any enrolled student, but we do place students of similar ages together in order to create a successful experience. If an older student is unable to bear the added cost of private housing, in cases when SAI does not have an older student apartment available, SAI will make every effort to nevertheless provide housing for that student by placing her/him in a single room within a shared apartment. In these cases, the student must pay the single supplement fee.
Please note: SAI does not offer housing to the following: Students’ spouses, children or pets.
SAI would like to recommend that students with the above circumstances, or students seeking their own private apartments (studio, 1 or 2 bedrooms), contact the following agencies to arrange private accommodations:
If you choose to arrange your own housing, please notify SAI California.
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