The University of New Haven opens in Tuscany

Thursday, July 26, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Travel

FLORENCE, ITALY – The University of New Haven plans to open its first international satellite campus this fall in Prato, Italy, The Hartford Courant reports. The UNH Tuscany Campus will be housed in an old villa on Prato’s historic town square, near the Cathedral of St. Stephen. The university plans to enroll about 35 students this fall and 60 students in the spring of 2013.

Prato is located few chilometres away from Florence but it is not satured by students and tourists as the city of Florence. It will be simpler for students keep in touch with Italian residents. To help ensure that UNH students mingle with local residents, meal plans will require that they eat at one of four restaurants.

Prato, a hub of Italy’s wool textile trade for nearly 500 years, is Tuscany’s second-largest city and about 20 minutes from Florence by train. Each semester, a cohort of UNH students from a specific area of study will go to Prato, beginning with criminal justice students this fall.

Kaplan also said that UNH students who enroll at the Prato campus will be able to keep all their scholarships and loans; that might not be the case if they enrolled through an outside program.