Campus and city
PoliTo is woven into Turin's identity as Italy's automotive and aerospace capital. The Mirafiori campus, home to design and sustainable mobility, sits beside the historic FIAT Mirafiori plant, while architecture is taught in the UNESCO-listed Castello del Valentino on the Po river. Student life centers on a strong engineering-school culture: the long-running Squadra Corse PoliTo Formula Student team (founded 2004) builds an electric racing prototype and competes internationally, and the I3P incubator channels student and graduate startups. Turin itself is an affordable, walkable Piedmont city with celebrated café and chocolate culture, an aperitivo tradition, Baroque arcades, and the Alps within an hour for skiing — costs run well below Milan or Rome. The EDISU Piemonte system provides university residences, subsidized meals, and scholarships that anchor student affordability. International students should expect Italian to remain the default language of daily life despite the growing English-taught offer, and the city, while elegant and historic, is less internationally cosmopolitan than Milan.