One office to contact to Study Abroad Italy is at Via Corsini, 1, 00165 Roma Rom, Italy, 06 58332262. You can also check out www.studyabroad.com/rome.html If you are fluent in Italian, you may be able to get a visa to study in Italy. Most students in the US attend university in the US and then take a year or a term abroad. Credit for the experience transfers back to the school where the student is enrolled. If you undertake a program of study in Italy on your own, there is no guarantee that credits will transfer. You are not eligible for federal government student unless the program is sanctioned and approved by a US school where you are matriculated.