Student Life

Passport. Valid for at least six months beyond your stay: the standard rule, worth checking today rather than at the airport.

Visa. Citizens of many countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Canada, enter Morocco without a visa for stays of up to 90 days. Check the current rules for your nationality with a Moroccan consulate before booking, and if you need an enrollment letter for a visa application or for the border, we issue one: just ask.

Staying longer than 90 days? Academic Year students, this means you. There are established ways to handle it, and we walk every long-stay student through the options personally after enrollment. This is one of those things better done with us than read about online.

Fly into Rabat–Salé (RBA), small, calm, twenty minutes from the institute, or Casablanca Mohammed V (CMN), the big international hub about an hour and a half away. Most long-haul routes land in Casablanca.

Book our airport transfer and a driver is waiting with your name when you land, from either airport, priced in the Extras of every course page. Prefer the train from Casablanca airport? Entirely doable, and we'll send you the how-to.

Arrive the weekend before your Monday start. It gives you a day to land properly: unpack, walk the neighborhood, sleep, before your placement interview and first class.

Your accommodation is confirmed before you fly, with the address and your host's or building's details in hand. Nobody lands here wondering where they're sleeping tonight.

Dirhams are easy to get once you're here. ATMs are everywhere in Rabat and work with international cards; withdraw what you need as you go. Exchange offices in the city center and at both airports will change cash if you prefer.

Cards are accepted in supermarkets, restaurants and larger shops. The medina, taxis and small cafés run on cash: keep some small notes on you.

Package and program prices are on Dates & Fees; each course page lists its own rates, with the extras priced right there.

Buy a local SIM in your first days: they're cheap, prepaid, and sold at the airport and in every neighborhood; bring your passport to register it. The three networks (Maroc Telecom, Orange, inwi) all cover Rabat well, and a month of generous data costs less than a single day of roaming abroad.

Once you have a number, give it to us: it's how we reach you quickly if anything changes.

Plugs: Morocco runs on 220V with European two-pin sockets (types C and E). One universal adapter covers you.

Clothes: lighter than you think for most of the year, plus one properly warm layer. Rabat winters are mild outdoors and surprisingly cool indoors, because buildings here aren't built for heating. Everyday dress in Rabat is relaxed and varied; comfortable, reasonably modest street clothes and you'll never think about it again.

Otherwise: any prescription medication in its packaging, and honestly little else. Rabat is a capital city. Pharmacies are excellent and everywhere, and anything you forget can be bought within a tram ride.

Your textbook is waiting for you here: no need to hunt for it at home.

Come in for the morning we tell you in your arrival email. Here's what it looks like:

If you haven't done your spoken placement online, you do it now: a short conversation, nothing to prepare. You meet the team, you see the building, you get your schedule and your book, and then you do the thing you came for: you go to class.

By lunchtime you'll have spoken more Arabic than most people manage in a month at home. That's the plan working.

And after that: stuck, lost, unwell, homesick, or just hunting the good fish restaurant, you have our numbers, and not only between nine and five. That's what we're for.