Sapienza
Sapienza is an autonomous state University that carries out the mission of contributing to the development of a society of knowledge through research, excellence and quality education as well as international cooperation.
It offers a wide range of fields of study that includes 370 first cycle and second cycle degrees and over 300 professional university masters (continuing education courses). It carries out scientific research in various fields, achieving high-standard results, which are acknowledged both on a national and an international level.
The branches involved cover every field of knowledge from pure science to technical branches and classical studies, historical, philosophic and economic-juridical subjects, from Sociology to Psychology, from Communication Sciences to Medicine.
Many of the 145,000 students attending the University come from abroad: there are more than 5,000 foreign students and incoming and outgoing Erasmus students are about 1,000 per year. There are more than 4,500 professors and the administrative and technical staff counts approximately 5,000 people.
Sapienza is a city within a city. The decentralisation process, started in 1999, has led to the creation of five Confederate Universities including 21 faculties and over 100 departments.
