I started studying for my master’s degree in translation at the University of Turin in 2019. I’ve been able to attend all my courses until the pandemic hit us all, in my case (since I live in Italy) at the beginning of the second semester. I have to admit that some teachers just uploaded files and files to study for the exam saying that it was enough and that, in any case, we could request an appointment with her/him to talk about our possible issues. Other teachers tried very hard to adapt to the new situation, but the results haven’t been so good. Classes were sometimes overwhelmed and following them wasn’t so easy. I regret not being able to study and attend classes on the new campus. Before starting in 2019 a lot of work had been done to the building and the classrooms were modern, with new furniture and electronic devices. Speaking of the faculty, I found my teachers professional and always available to be reached out, by emails and even during their office hours. I would recommend my course to anybody, especially to the people who attended their bachelor’s at a southern university, like Catania, Messina, Naples ect…
To sum up, I think this university could have been, according to my experience, way better, but the pandemic did make everything difficult. This is why I wrote that it was great, but not perfect. I just enrolled right in the worst moment ever for the education system.

It is my university after all, so I am affectionate to it but I have to say it’s very much disorganized. Professors and facilities often left me disappointed, but there are new buildings since this year and some professors are also nice! The course was pretty much what I expected, I just would have enjoyed a better quality throughout the whole university. It’s in the heart of Turin, so it’s a very nice place to be and move around. I would recommend it to a friend if they have no better option.

UNITO is a university located in Italy in the region of Piedmont. I wouldn’t say that is the best in Italy, but I am sure it will be very soon. It is, in fact, improving its study programme, expanding the international exchanges through the Erasmus and Overseas programmes. It also involves students in various activities, such as seminars concerning many different topics, and usually contemporary ones.
In Turin I study foreign languages, it is not one of the best faculties of the University and it has so much to improve, starting from the course programme. The teachers are well prepared, but I believe that the programme doesn’t value their preparation. I think that are some useless courses that should be dropped and some other definitely to be improved. For example, students should have the possibility to choose more optional courses and not only a few of them.
I study Japanese and English and although Japanese is a very tough language I think that many exchange programmes helped me a lot to improve it. But the exam modality should be changed, we don’t have the preparation for an exam this hard.
The organisational system works pretty well, some problems have occurred but they were easily resolved.
In general I think I would recommend it. It has many pros.