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 to answer questions and assist with maintenance needs that may arise.
SAI, with our rental agency partners, offers shared student apartments, however students are also free to arrange their own accommodations privately.
| Shared student apartments |
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Students are placed with other (usually US) SAI students in apartments that are privately owned and located in buildings shared by Italian residents. |
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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. |
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Apartments INCLUDE: |
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- furnishings |
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- basic kitchen supplies |
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- bed linens |
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- washing machine |
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Apartments DO NOT INCLUDE: towels, land line telephones or clothes dryers. |
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| Housing Requests |
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Housing requests are made by submitting a “housing request form” with your application. |
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Applications are processed when payment of your confirmation deposit has been made to SAI. |
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Single room requests must be accompanied by an additional single room supplement fee of $1000 per semester or $350 per summer/intersession term. |
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Single room requests are processed when your single supplement fee is received.* |
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Roommate requests must be mutual; both you and your roommate must clearly write each other's name on the housing request form. |
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SAI student apartments are assigned as single gender housing, (all male or all female). Students seeking male/female shared housing options have two
choices: 1) SAI may be able to assign a one-bedroom apartment to a male/female roommate request, however this cannot be guaranteed available or 2)
Students should contact our partner rental agencies to arrange a private apartment rental in order to accommodate male/female roommates at www.yaif.it or
www.florenceandabroad.com |
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| Housing Assignment Confirmation |
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Students will receive housing and roommate assignments via email at least two weeks prior to the start of the term. |
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| Arrival |
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Students will receive written arrival instructions in their housing assignment letter. |
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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. |
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* At this time Single Room Housing options are unavailable in Milan. |
