All you need to know about SSML Carlo Bo

SSML Carlo Bo in Rome is located at the following addresses:

– Palazzo Cipolla, Via del Corso 320, 00186 Rome
(entrance from Via dei Montecatini 17)

– Palazzo Sciarra, Via Marco Minghetti 17, 00187 Rome
(few metres from Palazzo Cipolla)

Phone: +39 06.44.29.29.70

The headquarters of SSML Carlo Bo are located in Milan at the following address:

Via Simone Martini 23, 20143 Milan

Phone: +39 02.81.80.85.55

SSML Carlo Bo in Florence is located at the following address:

Piazza della Stazione 1, 50123 Florence

Phone: +39 055.28.20.02

SSML Carlo Bo in Bologna is located at the following address:

Via Cesare Boldrini 8, 40121 Bologna

Telefono: +39 051.25.13.58

The degree issued by SSML Carlo Bo is a degree equivalent to a Bachelor’s Degree in Language Mediation Sciences and has a very important added value: it allows students to acquire professional standards and gives them the opportunity to explore the profession of language mediator on a pragmatic and functional level in line with the skills required to work as a translator and/or conference interpreter. Courses, according to the curriculum, offer the opportunity to specialise in different areas while remaining within the framework of a three-year degree programme.

SSML Carlo Bo degree gives students the opportunity to continue their studies in the area of Master’s degrees and first level Masters. Normally, students have direct access to LM94 class Master’s Degrees, in some universities (such as IULM) no admission test is required. Many students go on to study in the field of communication, marketing or economics. This demonstrates that the educational path offers remarkable versatility as well as conveying to students the ability to look at the future from a multifocal perspective, that is a true overview.

Throughout the year there are several dates for the admission test, which is essential for your access to the degree pathway. We invite you to stay tuned to our channels and institutional website where we monthly communicate the dates of the admission test, the last of which takes place in September.

The entry assessment interview is to evaluate student’s skills before the enrollment. It allows us to assess their proficiency in both English and the second language (French, German, Spanish), in addition to the Italian language and general soft skills. Students do not have to take an entry test for Arabic, Chinese, or Russian.
If students pass the entry assessment interview, they will not have to undergo other screening or general skills assessment procedures.Al colloquio valutativo, se superato, non fanno seguìto altre procedure di screening o di valutazione generale delle competenze.

To be qualified for teaching, students must award a second-level university degree equivalent to MA, and get the credits required by the competition class in addition to participating in selections announced nationwide by MIUR (Italy’s Ministry of Education, University, and Research).

Students have autonomy to manage their university life in such a way as to combine study and work activities. The Regulation sets out that it is necessary to attend laboratory and training activities because they are characteristic of the degree programme. Since the professionalisation of the student is a daily and gradual process that needs direct confrontation with experts and professors teaching in language laboratories, SSML Carlo Bo considers the attendance of laboratory activities very important.

We recommend you to consult the information reported on the Financial Support page of our website, where you may find detailed information, news and procedures to follow.

We are glad to inform you that further financial support is coming soon and will be reported on the abovementioned webpage.

Possession of a language certification is a very common situation among students nowadays. Certification has an important value for the student’s development in language learning but does not exempt him or her from the entry assessment interview because it constitutes an internal student assessment procedure adopted by SSML Carlo Bo for the purpose of screening students’ language and cultural competencies.

Our teaching is designed to have both Italian and native speaker teachers cooperating in the laboratory activities, thus helping students to enhance their active and passive language skills.

The choice made by SSML Carlo Bo is to return to face-to-face after the pandemic in order to ensure the best teaching and foster interchanges between students and professors. We are convinced that face-to-face teaching in the field of languages and language mediation can have a high success rate if it is delivered in the classroom, according to the standards and criteria that SSML Carlo Bo has experienced and ensured over the years.

If students do not reach the minimum level of language proficiency initially required, they are encouraged to fill their gaps and take another assessment interview in the following sessions. If they fail again, they may choose a language for which the entry assessment interview is not required (Arabic, Chinese, or Russian).

The academic curriculum, specialisations, services, taught courses, as well as everything else that makes up the SSML Carlo Bo educational package, is the same in all SSML Carlo Bo campuses.

It is possible to change the second language during the first year, preferably by the end of the first semester. In this way, the student will be able to reach the other students’ level. It is possible to change the second language during the second or third year, but it is necessary to enroll in the year of admission to the second language course.

Our suggestion is to participate in our Open Days, get in touch with our professors and attend the training activities offered by SSML Carlo Bo in our campuses. In this way, you will have the opportunity to explore more distant cultures and languages so as to be able to make an informed choice.

More than 90% of those who award a degree at SSML Carlo Bo are able to find a place in the job market, thanks to the fact that the training received is very versatile and allows being employed in different sectors all with a common thread: high-level proficiency in at least two foreign languages.

In practical terms, our students work not only in the field of written and oral language mediation, but also in tourism, international trade, non-profit organisations, media and interculturalism (public administration, private companies, etc.).

Courses are structured to have classes almost every day, with time slots in the morning and in the afternoon. Each campus follows a class schedule in which there may be small differences with respect to the beginning and end of the teaching day, or the length of lunch break. In general, courses occupy the entire week (Monday to Friday) and involve assiduous and constant class attendance. This is the only way to learn and be aware of the day by day progress achieved in technical and language skills.

For those who have already earned CFUs at other universities or attended recognisable educational activities, we recommend submitting an application for evaluation. It will allow ascertaining official recognition in a short time and enabling the student to receive specific approval.
In the presence of necessary conditions, the student will be recognised the credits accrued for the same subjects taught at SSML Carlo Bo, for which he or she has already taken the examination and earned credits in another university.