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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS • Contacts Identity Malta and ensures • After a couple of weeks, the office starts
We are Diverse that the entity knows that there are approaching non-European foreigners
ITS students applying for visa and from
and helps them apply for a student visa.
which embassies.
One-third of the student population at the
Institute of Tourism Studies is made up of AFTER THE STUDENT COMES ADDITIONAL USEFUL
foreign nationals. TO MALTA, THE OFFICE INFORMATION FOR
• Help students acclimatise to Malta. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
Prospective students with foreign • Keep in contact with the students to
qualifications are asked to contact help them with their needs. Cost of living
the Malta Qualifications Recognition • Help students apply for the student visa
Information Centre (MQRIC) so recognition with identity Malta. ACCOMMODATION
on their qualification may be provided. The International Department will be
APPLICATION PROCESS able to help you in finding the right
APPLYING FOR VISAS • The student first applies online through accommodation in Malta. You may contact
International students who require a the ITS website, after he gets accepted them on internationaloffice@its.edu.mt.
visa are guided by the ITS’s International the Registrar Department sends the Kindly note that the institute will be
Department. acceptance letter. needing your Maltese address in order to
• The International Department then send you the visa letter.
The main aim of the international office is sends an e-mail with the basic
to welcome international students at the information about the student so that ALIMENTARY COSTS
Institute of Tourism Studies and help them he can kickstart his application at the The food-related cost depends on the
adjust to life in Malta. There are various ways embassy. students’ purchases. In Malta there are
in which our office helps foreign students: • When the student pays the first numerous convenience shops and ITS does
semester fees the International have a canteen where ITS students can dine.
BEFORE THE STUDENT COMES Department sends a more detailed letter
TO MALTA, THE OFFICE to both Identity Malta and the student. TRANSPORTATION
• Produces letters that kickstart their visa • When the student arrives in Malta the Regarding transportation costs one can
process. International Department shows them find the different costs on the Malta Public
• Helps students find accommodation by around the campus and helps them find transport website. www.publictransport.
giving them useful contacts. the closest amenities to their flats. com.mt/en/bus-card-and-ticketing
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