The University of Perugia was founded in 1308. In that year, Pope Clement V issued a bull entitled Super specula, which granted the Studium of the city the authority to engage in higher education. The bull made Perugia a leggere generaliter, giving its degree courses universal validity and recognition. Formal imperial recognition of the University was conveyed in 1355, when Emperor Charles I granted Perugia the permanent right to have a University and to award degrees to students from all nations. In the 14th century, the University offered degrees in two fields: Law and General Arts.
Today, research, education and consulting activities in the various disciplines are organized in 16 Departments, with about 23,500 students, 1,100 professors and researchers and 1,000 staff members. The University offers study programs also in two other Umbrian towns: Assisi and Terni.
In recent years, the University has undertaken a broad renewal of its degree programs and curricula, which prepare students to meet the demands of the labor market and to satisfy the needs for innovation expressed by employers in private and public sectors. Nowadays, the University of Perugia offers a vast array of degree programs, which cover nearly all fields of study authorized by the national Ministry of Higher Education. The University's teaching faculty combines a long and solid tradition of excellence with a commitment to innovation and an interdisciplinary approach that ensures students the synergies needed for the acquisition of flexible educational training based on a mixture of skills and abilities. Post-graduate degrees are offered in top rated specialization schools and doctoral programs, as well a variety of masters programs in the various academic disciplines.
On the international level, the University remains firmly committed to developing collaborative relationships with European and non European Universities, to facilitate and improve international advanced study opportunities for its students. The European Commission has recently awarded the University the prestigious ECTS label for excellence in the application of the European Credit Transfer System in all of its degree programs – first and second cycles and single cycle – confirming the high quality of our expanded international endeavors.
Our commitment to internationalization has been given concrete form through the establishment of working agreements with 361 institutions of higher learning throughout the European Union eligible for participation in the Erasmus program, and about 90 cooperation agreements with European and extra-European universities for the development of collaborative initiatives in research and education. Several degree programs available at the University of Perugia already confer double degrees or European degree.
The University holds a Language Center (CLA) that delivers Italian courses to international students, as well as English, French, German courses and is endowed with the most up-to-date facilities of language learning and a staff of highly qualified mother-tongue teachers. The University holds a Library Services Centre (CSB), operating 13 libraries, and the University Centre for Scientific Museums (CAMS). Furthermore, students' academic and scientific training is enriched and supplemented by career services, provided by the Orientation Service and the Job Placement Service, and by outstanding sports and athletic facilities: the University Sports Centre (CUS) and the Giuseppe Bambagioni Sports and Recreation Centre. The University has a strong commitment towards disabled students, and is making constant efforts to improve their studying and educational experience.
Currently, there are about 50 research groups that received grants from the European Research network. The scientific research and education conducted in the University Departments is amplified by the activities of numerous specialized institutes and centers, the Teaching Hospital in Veterinary Medicine, and three internationally recognized centers of excellence: the Centre for Innovative Applied Nanostructural Materials in Chemistry, Physics, and Biomedicine (CEMIN), the Beer Research Centre (CRB), and the Centre for Innovative Applied Scientific Technologies in Archaeological and Art Historical Research (SMAart).
The Student Council is a representative body composed of students, whose role covers various proactive, advisory and monitory functions.
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As a graduate in Engineering at this University I needed a certificate; I sent email request to different addresses (at least three within a month) taken from the official website. Nobody has ever answered. I believe that the quality of a service can also be seen and perhaps above all from these little things.
By Ignazio Salvemini (Jan, 2018) |
One of the oldest universities of Italy (founded in 1308) that manages to preserve cultural and scientific excellence by providing training to an increasingly advanced, distributed in the country and internationally.
By Andrea Giontella (Feb, 2017) |
Big enough to give the best, small enough to get the best.
By Valentina Franzoni (Jan, 2017) |
Good to see the beautiful scenery of the mountain scenery looked different color classmates really nice
By Xin Li (Jan, 2017) |
Some courses are great, too bad not a good location of the faculty
By Gionata il Viandante (Jan, 2017) |
Sindy Taylor, I'm really sorry to read of this horrible experience you've had in my university, because they are very fond of and I would not want that, because of some subject, create an opinion wrong about the whole University. Of absent teachers and never available I heard about it from some friends who attend other faculties compared to mine, so do not try to deny what you said. However I want to tell you that, fortunately, is not so in all departments: in every department they work different people, and of course everyone operates differently. I am final year of Engineering and my experience is very different from yours: I am surrounded by punctual professors, serious and available, if you say one thing and do take us to pass on the passion for what they teach; others are less accurate, but present and available. Little professors present I can think of at the time, only one: I often see him arrive late and leave early, but if you send him an email and it gives you an appointment, then he may be found. Maybe I was lucky, and I happened into a happy island, where professors work in groups, with passion and seriousness, but it seems right that you know these things, so that you would not believe that the University of Perugia (or even all Italian University) is made of careless people: there is good and bad as everywhere!
By Alessandra Tappini (Feb, 2016) |
I came to study abroad but could not find the availability of the professors who were never present when their office hours were on that day. If asked to assistant nobody ever he knew where they were. I do not wonder if Italy in this bad situation because universities to stop forming humanly people but only interests are politics and the teachers salary. It is very shameful. I really dispiaci.
By Sindy Taylor (Jan, 2016) |
For heaven's sake ... sorry for me that I fell into the trap university. I indeed am sure that the problem does not only concern the University of Perugia, but all Italian universities.
Opportunity to have a professional result close to zero, obtained skills: very few, very little professionalizing.
You graduate and you have to start all over again ... not good! or university creates competence and professionalism in 5 -6 years maximum, or it is useless to fill the minds of sterile rote learning.
I invite all to how things are going to become specialists of excellence in an industry he likes: from food to technical installations, the construction, the pastry. Become serious professionals in a sector of excellence Italian. for this it does not serve the university, at most a few regional course.
Not to aprlare then allocation of doctorates! evebbhè! I have been warned!
By Sacha Longo (Jan, 2014) |
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The faculty's dedication to fostering a vibrant learning atmosphere has truly transformed my child's academic journey; their progress has been remarkable!
By J.M. (Mar, 2024) |