Italian admissions, learned the hard way first.
Why Learnium Consulting exists
If you are trusting us with your next year, or your child's, you should know how we learned this. I applied to study Medicine in Turin as an international student, with no one to ask. I worked out the pre-enrolment, the enrolment, the embassy forms and the declaration of value myself, and I got some of it wrong.
Some of it cost me. I had the declaration of value for my A levels done through the UK apostille route, because I believed a British qualification required it. It did not, and it could have been done in my own country for a fraction of the cost. I came close to missing small deadlines more than once, because getting a result to appear on a university's site after the IMAT took steps nobody had written down. All of this while studying for the test itself, with less time than I wanted. I passed, placed first among the international students in Turin that session, and enrolled in Medicine there.
Then I arrived in Italy, and the paperwork started again. Documents had to be done quickly and in order, and when the order was wrong, there were delays. In the years that followed, I guided the international students who arrived after me through the same steps.
Doing that showed me what I had really been missing. Every one of those steps had an answer, written in a call, a decree or a consulate page. A student from abroad needs someone who has read all of it and has walked it. Learnium was built to be that someone: the dates, the documents and the order they go in, from the source, in one place.
We run on one rule: our interest and the student's interest must never point in different directions. If a program is wrong for you, we say so. If a date has not been published, we say that instead of guessing. A hard answer today is worth more to a family than false hope for a year.
Students and parents can ask us anything, and we will answer plainly and show where it is written. I learned Italian admissions by getting parts of it wrong. You should not have to learn it the same way.
Hannan Chaudhry
Founder, Learnium Consulting
Medicine and Surgery, University of Turin
Three things you can hold us to.
Dates from the source.
Every deadline we give you comes from the official call for your intake, and we can show you where it is written. When something has not been published yet, we say so instead of guessing.
Fees in writing.
You get a written quote after your first call and a written contract before you pay anything. It lists what is included and what is paid separately, line by line.
One mentor throughout.
The same mentor stays with you from program choice to the visa appointment and your flight, with our whole team behind them. You never have to explain your case twice.
Students from everywhere. One team behind them.
We work on the calls, the tests, the ranking lists and the enrolment offices in Italy, and with families on documents, attestation and the visa. You work with one mentor who knows your case from the first conversation, backed by people who have been through this process themselves.
What no consultant can promise you.
- An offer of admission.Universities decide, on the test or interview and the application.
- A visa.Embassies decide, on the documents and the interview.
- A date nobody has published yet.We will tell you when it is published, and where.