Italy has great food, music, amazing fashion, beautiful places for summer and winter vacation and excellent education. In Italy you can study at well known and highly ranked public and private universities. The best way to reach one of those institutions is through a good high school and educational program.
International Baccalaureate (IB program) is the well known system that leads students to the best universities. Here are our suggestions where you can attend the IB program in Italy.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MILAN
International School of Milan (ISM) is a prestigious boarding school on the outskirts of Milan. With its ideal location, students can get to a city centre in 20 minutes and spend there free time during the weekend.
The school capacity is around 850 students where half of them are Italians and another half are international students. The boarding itself is relatively small with 45 students living in a dorm in single and double rooms. Since the boarding is coming more popular, the school is expanding capacity in order to be able to place more boarding students.
ISM is excellent for those who want to study architecture, fashion, design. For example, fashion team consists of people form famous NABA institute and Missoni brand. On the other hand, students interested in science have numerous science labs at their disposal so number of students study science at University. The school has indoor pool, gym and theatre.
For those interested in Music, ISM has direct collaborations with Berklee College of Music in Boston. Wherever you decide to study, you will get an academic support and college counselling opportunities. Excellent students end up enrolled at prestigious Oxford university. University acceptance will mostly depend on the final IB score.
Cost. Around 43.500€
Scholarships. Some, and sometimes. Depends.
H-FARM
In northern Italy we offer another school – H Farm International, nearby Venice, just 10 minutes away from the airport. The school has around 1300 students where 600 are in the upper school. It is a purely IB school. 50% of the students are internationals. About 145 students live in the boarding houses in the rooms shared between 2 and 3 students. Some single rooms are also available.
The H Farm school is very modern, apple distinguished school. It is like an innovation hub where entrepreneurs are born. The campus is over 50 acres in size with 1,600 sqm indoors and 5,000 sqm of outdoor space.
Besides excellent education, students enjoy activities like tennis, padel, football, climbing, basketball, beach volleyball, BMX, skateboarding. For those who are not interested in business, entrepreneurship and innovation, H-farm offers great STEAM programs.
It is very well known for sustainability programs and environmental science. Apart from science, those who enjoy sports, can take part in sports academy. It is well rounded school where one can reach academic potential at any field of study.
Cost. Around 48.000€
Scholarships. Some, and sometimes. Depends.
CANADIAN COLLEGE ITALY
Apart from IB schools in Italy, we highly recommend high school based on Canadian education system. Canadian College Italy (CCI) is a Canadian boarding school located in Lanciano Italy. While you need to spend minimum two years of education while on IB DP program, you can stay only one year in Canadian education system and still get a diploma.
This system is very similar to American education system. The diploma is widely recognised and students go to universities all over the world. However we must stress out that most students end up at Canadian or US universities afterwards.
Besides excellent academics, school has Duke of Edinburgh Award so taking part in this activity significantly helps with college applications.
Established back in 1995. CCI is located at medieval city of Lanciano, 20 minutes away from Pescara and less than 3 hours from Rome. Even though the school is very authentic and in historic buildings, classrooms and facilities are very modern. The school has 4 boarding houses where students live. Usually rooms are shared between 2 and maximum 3-4 students. The seating capacity of a canteen is 200.
Cost. Around 43.000€
Scholarships. Yes, based on academics and financial family situation.
If you are not finding the school of your preference on our list, please feel free to contact us. Sometimes not all the schools are published on our website.
