List of Italian universities

The University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano, UNIMI) is one the largest universities in Italy, with about 60,000 students, a teaching and research staff of 2,500 and a non-teaching staff of 2,000. The university is a member of the League of European Research Universities. Throughtout Milan, the University is normally known as Statale to avoid confusion with others academic institutions in the city. University of Milan - History. The university of Milan was f ...

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The University of Ferrara (Università degli Studi di Ferrara) is main university of the city of Ferrara in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. In the years prior to the First World War the University of Ferrara, with more than 500 students, was the best attended of the free universities in Italy. Today there are approximately 12,000 thousand students enrolled at the University of Ferrara with nearly 400 degrees granted each yea ...

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The University of Bologna (Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is the university of Bologna, in Italy. Its new name, since 2000, is Alma mater studiorum (Latin for "fostering mother of studies"), to remember it as the first university in Europe. The university received a charter from Frederick I Barbarossa in 1158, but in the 19th century, a committee of historians led by Giosuè Carducci traced the birth of the University back to 1088. The University celebrated its 900th anniversary in 1988, making it arguably the longest-lived university in the Western world. The University of Bologna is h ...

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The University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is one of the most well-renowned universities in Italy. Located in the north-eastern part of country, it is one of the oldest universities in Europe, and the second oldest in Italy, founded in 1222. As of 2003 the university has approximately 65,000 students. University of Padua - History. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 when a large group of students and faculty left the University of Bologna seeking more academic freedom ...

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The University of Pisa (Italian Università di Pisa) is one of the most renowned Italian universities. It is located in Pisa, Tuscany. It was formally founded on the September 3, 1343 by an edict of Pope Clement VI, although there had been lectures on law in Pisa since the 11th century. The University has the oldest Botanical garden (Orto botanico di Pisa) founded in 1543. The University of Pisa is part of the Pisa University System, together with the Scuola Normale Superiore and Sant'Anna School. It offers a wide and wo ...

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The University of Siena (Università di Siena, UNISI) in Tuscany is one of the older universities of Italy, founded in the 13th century, initially as a Studium. It currently has around 20,000 enrolled students, out of Siena's population of approximately 50,000, and is most renowned for its Law and Medicine schools. Università per Stranieri di Siena ("The University for Foreigners") was formerly affiliated with the Un ...

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The University of Florence evolved from the Studium Generale, which was established by the Florentine Republic in 1321. The Studium was recognized by Pope Clement VI in 1349, and authorised to grant regular degrees. The Pope also estabilished that the first Italian faculty of Theology would be in Florence. The Studium became an imperial university in 1364, but was moved to Pisa in 1473 when Lorenzo the Magnificent gained control of Florence. Charles VIII moved it back from 1497-1515, but it was moved to Pi ...

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The University of Padua was founded in 1222 when a large group of students and faculty left the University of Bologna seeking more academic freedom. Initially, the university only had a law school (universitas Iuristarum) including civil law, canon law, and theology. In 1399 the School of Arts and Sciences was opened (Universitas Artistarum) including astronomy, dialectic, philosophy, grammar, medicine, and rhetoric. Students were divided in two Nations (Nationes): the natio citramontana which included Italian students an ...

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The university of Milan was founded on 30th of September, 1923, when the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the Milan Accademia, active since 1861, was joined with the Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento, founded by Luigi Mangiagalli in 1906. In June 1998, a "Second University of Milan" was founded at Bicocca, see University of Milan Bicocca. ...

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Nowadays the University of Pisa consists of 11 faculties and 56 departments. These faculties offers a notable amount of courses in their related field of studies: Agriculture Arts Economics Engineering Foreign Languages & Literatures Law Mathematical, Physical & Natural Sciences Medicine & Surgery Pharmac ...

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The University of Ferrara was founded on March 4, 1391 by Marquis Alberto V D'Este with the permission of Pope Boniface IX. The Studium Generale was inaugurated on St. Luke's Day (October 18), that same year with courses in law, arts and theology. After the unification of Italy, the University of Ferrara became a free university having Faculties in Law and Mathematics, a three-year course in Medicine (reduced to two years in 1863-64) as well as Schools of Veterinary Medicine (abolished in 1876) ...

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These are the 12 faculties in which the university is divided into: Faculty of Agriculture Faculty of Architecture Faculty of Economics Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Law Faculty of Literatures and Philosophy Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences Faculty of Medicine and Surgery Faculty of Pedagogy Faculty of Pharmacology Faculty of P ...

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University of Florence, University of Florence - History, University of Florence - Organization, University of Florence - Noted Professors

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