Admissions 2023/24: boom in applications, over 1000 applications received

More than 1,000 representative students from all 20 regions of Italy, as well as from abroad, applied, choosing Collegio Einaudi and Turin as starting points for their educational, cultural and human development

There are 150 available places, but applications have exceeded 1,000 with a growth over last year of 30 percent.
These are the first figures to emerge from the 2023-2024 call for admissions of the Fondazione Collegio Universitario Einaudi, Piedmont’s leading Collegio di Merito, among the first in Italy, which every year welcomes young students from all corners of Italy and abroad within the walls of its five Turin residences.

A veritable “army” of students (547) and female students (488) who are ambitious, autonomous, eager to increase their educational, cultural and human backgrounds and to live a community experience outside their home walls, capable of opening to them promising and captivating professional and personal opportunities.
What Collegio Einaudi offers, in fact, goes beyond the shared residency project, as it proposes an opportunity for growth and peer education with a focus on the acquisition and exercise of soft skills and entrepreneurial competencies through customized training paths that make extensive use of group work and experiential activities.

The cross-section that emerges from the more than 1,000 requests for admission is that of a heterogeneous Italy, which seeks in Collegio Einaudi and more generally in Turin a landing point where it can set sail to discover the world. All 20 Italian regions are represented and if Piedmont remains the queen with 217 applications, Puglia (192) and Sicily (127) confirm that they are the territories with the highest demand from students ready to travel thousands of miles to live this experience. Also interesting are the data regarding requests from regions that boast high-level services and facilities for students, such as Lombardy (38), Lazio (39) and Emilia Romagna (23). A further demonstration of how Collegio Einaudi, as well as its partner universities and colleges, can be capable of attracting new talent to Turin to guarantee them interesting opportunities.
A separate discourse deserves foreign students (84): despite the fact that there is an Collegio “international call” dedicated to them, in fact, some aspirants have decided to apply to this call as well, in order to have a further chance to be admitted.

La provenienza accademica dei richiedenti è suddivisa principalmente tra Politecnico di Torino e Università degli Studi di Torino, a cui si uniscono con numeri più piccoli lo IED, lo IAAD, il Conservatorio, l’Accademia Albertina e, per la prima volta, anche la Scuola Holden.
834 aspiranti rientrano nel gruppo delle lauree triennali (con un aumento del 94% di domande di future matricole rispetto allo scorso anno), 150 per la laurea magistrale e 51 per il ciclo unico. Particolarmente interessanti sono i dati ISEE, con 423 richiedenti che si trovano sotto la soglia economica per il diritto allo studio universitario (23.000 euro), a rimarcare la fondamentale finalità sociale del Collegio Einaudi, capace di intercettare il merito trasversalmente a tutta la popolazione e di coniugare diritto allo studio e valorizzazione del merito e del potenziale.

The academic background of applicants is divided mainly between Politecnico di Torino and Università degli Studi di Torino, joined in smaller numbers by IED, IAAD, the Conservatory, Accademia Albertina and, for the first time, even Scuola Holden.
834 aspirants fall into the group of bachelor’s degrees (a 94 percent increase in applications from prospective freshmen compared to last year), 150 for master’s degrees and 51 for single-cycle degrees. Particularly interesting are the ISEE data, with 423 applicants falling below the economic threshold for the right to university study (23,000 euros), underscoring the Collegio Einaudi’s fundamental social purpose, capable of intercepting merit across the entire population and combining right to study and enhancement of merit and potential.

Overall, then, the data from Collegio Einaudi’s 2023/2024 admissions call, corroborated by the findings of the motivational interviews conducted, show a generational cross-section from which emerges a growing tension toward community experiences, which is accompanied by college students’ desire for autonomy.
For example, there is Nicola from the province of Syracuse, who will bring with him the transverse flute he has been studying since he was 10 years old and who chose Turin because there are the Polytechnic, the Conservatory and the Collegio with dedicated music rooms; Erica, on the other hand, will enroll in computer engineering and hopes to be able to find a volunteer association in Turin as well at which she can continue to teach the elderly how to use PCs, just as she did in her home town in the province of Cuneo. Finally, Antonio, from Puglia, the first of five siblings, who sees in the Collegio the chance to finally have a room of his own, and to be the first graduate in his family, in mechanical engineering, following in the footsteps of his grandfather who used to take him with him to the workshop every summer.

Several among the callers boast of study abroad experiences during their high school years or even volunteer activities in communities in their home area and years of activism in scout groups. Then there are those who highlighted their passion for music, which resulted in years of study at the conservatory for some and the drive to start their own music group for others.
In general, the motivational interviews made it possible to get in touch with a generation that has overcome, not without difficulty, the pandemic and the constraints it has imposed on the experiences of recent years, perhaps contributing to an increased desire to be able to devote themselves to their future with a full experience, capable of going beyond mere shared residency: an opportunity for a real gymnasium of representation, a calling card that can accompany and stimulate future professional and life ambitions.

“The number of applications received for admission to the Collegio is a reflection not only of the size of the housing needs of college students, but also of the Collegio’s ability to engage in dialogue with the younger generation and their families, offering an all-around experience of life and study that forms the individual within a stimulating and welcoming community, creating the basis for active and responsible citizenship,” says Prof. Paolo Enrico Camurati, President of the Fondazione Collegio Universitario Einaudi

The first results of the call for applications will be available starting Aug. 4 with the possibility for those admitted to enter the Collegio’s flagship residence from September.
All male and female students who participated in the call for admissions were involved in an individual interview to allow the Collegio staff to deepen their motivation to join the educational and community experience, while at the same time offering them clarifications about services offered, with particular focus on the possibility of personalizing their educational experience at the Collegio and accessing new services that will be offered starting from A.Y. 23/24 on an experimental basis. Novelties, these, which have not yet been made explicit in the Collegio’s notices, concern the possibility, for the most motivated, of defining one’s own individual development plan linked to the European competency models and aimed at identifying growth objectives for the student/ess in the personal, academic and professional spheres.

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Repubblica | 12/07/2023

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