Sapienza University of Rome
Sapienza University of Rome is the biggest research university in Europe. Established in 1303 the university is the leading institution of higher education of Italy and a part of Times Higher Education best universities of the planet top-300 list. Nowadays more than 115 000 students study at the university (6% of them – foreign citizens), but the student-teacher ratio stays pretty low – 21,8.
Sapienza University meets the highest European educational standards. Over its long history the university gave the world 6 Nobel Laureates. Nowadays it has 11 faculties:
- Faculty of architecture
- Faculty of economy
- Faculty of pharmacy and medicine
- Faculty of jurisprudence
- Faculty of civil and industrial engineering
- Faculty of information engineering, computer science and statistics
- Faculty of letters and philosophy
- Faculty of medicine and dentistry
- Faculty of medicine and psychology
- Faculty of mathematical, physical and natural sciences
- Faculty of political sciences, sociology, communication
The university offers 450 baccalaureate programs and 325 master programs. The medium of instruction is principally Italian, but more than 80 programs are also available in English.
Sapienza University has a vast network of partner universities. Cooperation agreements are signed with 341 higher education institutions (among them such a prestigious ones as Columbia University and University of California, Berkeley).