St. John International University (SJIU) is a new American free-standing university in Vinovo-Torino (Turin), Italy. SJIU offers study abroad, undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the areas of art history, business administration, environmental architecture, environmental studies and film studies. As an American liberal arts college, SJIU provides students from across the globe the skills and tools necessary to be successful and competitive in today's job market. SJIU is dedicated to promoting humanism, fostering respect for the fundamental rights of the individual, emphasizing research, and instilling awareness of our physical and cultural surroundings. Through its high quality academic curriculum, SJIU prepares graduates to share the responsibility that each of us has towards our natural and social worlds.
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SJIU offers an academic program that addresses environmental issues with an educational program that increases cultural understanding and awareness. This academic program is eco-centric in that it considers the eco-system to be strongly connected to our culture and human artistic, economic and historical activities. The founders recognized English as the language that best facilitates international communication, and the importance of bringing together a wide variety of perspectives from across the globe in order to exchange ideas and create innovative solutions for the environmental issues of today and tomorrow


The mission of St. John International University is to offer liberal arts educational programs of the highest quality to a globally diverse student population. Through its graduate and undergraduate programs in the American tradition, St. John International University’s objectives include promoting humanism, fostering respect for the fundamental rights of the individual, emphasizing research, and instilling awareness of one’s physical and cultural surroundings. By integrating these objectives, graduates will gain an environmental and cultural awareness, which will prepare them to share with other members of society the responsibility that each of us has towards our natural and social worlds.


Furthermore, SJIU aims to:

  • Be recognized on an international level as a scholastic postsecondary institution;
  • Be recognized for its academic excellence, reflected in its students and the services offered by its faculty;
  • Produce graduates who will be integrated successfully into the international community and who will aspire to become professionals at the highest level and inspire their colleagues towards excellence;
  • Provide a campus which will be sensitive towards different ethnicities and different cultural backgrounds;
  • Supply a wide range of activities which will reflect students’ personal talents;
  • Develop courses, seminars and other programs which will incite students to embrace the challenges of a more global future with particular emphasis on environmental problems;
  • Foster a multicultural environment that welcomes learning and instruction, emphasizing tolerance, understanding, and the fundamental role of scientific research;
  • Promote and maintain an economic environment which will foster the growth of academic programs and the augmentation of staff and faculty salaries and benefits.

St. John International University, Inc. guarantees the fulfillment of the institution’s mission through satisfactory and appropriate economic management.