University of Camerino

A university in the green heart of Italy! Good reasons to choose UNICAM
Choosing the University of Camerino for study and research means you are choosing a first class institution of higher education structured on a human scale in a safe, friendly place with a truly international atmosphere.
There is a great sense of respect for different ideas, different backgrounds and different cultures, a positive, productive and creative environment where your personal objective can be reached, thanks to small size classes, to excellent facilities and services, and an excellent professor/student ratio.

International students are a very important and valued part of the University of Camerino, making up nearly 11% of the student body. UNICAM has a long and respected tradition in quality teaching and quality scientific research. Research projects and Technological Transfer are of top priority. In the grren heart of Italy, the University of Camerino offers students invaluable tranquillity for study!

We have respect for different ideas, We offer a friendly, productive and creative environment, We give you an experience that prepares you for a lifetime of achievement. A little big international world: this is UNICAM!

University of Camerino: 7 centuries of history:
1336 Foundation Date as Studium Generale,
1727 Refounded as Universitas Studii Generalis by Pope Benedict XIII,
1753 Holy Roman Emperor Francis I of Habsburg-Lorraine extended the validity of degrees awarded by Camerino to the entire Holy Roman Empire.

The great literate and jurist Cino from Pistoia, living in Marche in the years 1319 -21, in his works remembers a territory blooming with juridical schools.

Camerino has been a centre of learning since at least 1200, offering degrees in civil law, canonical law, medicine and literary studies. Pope Gregorius XI took the decision in the papal edict (Bull) of 29 January 1377, following the request of Gentile III da Varano of Camerino, that addressed the commune and people authorizing Camerino to confer, after examination, bachelor and doctoral degrees and that extended to all of Christendom the validity of these academic titles, which were now conferred “with apostolic authority”.

Students in Camerino were exempted from the payment of all taxes and duties and were free from reprisals, even when hostilities existed between Camerino and their native city. They enjoyed unconditional freedom to enter, live in and leave the city. This privilege applied also to their servants. On 15 July 1727, the Pope Benedictus XIII, with the Bull Liberalium Disciplinarum reorganized the courses according to the curricula of, and with the same ends as, the Papal Universities. He conferred on the institution the title Universitas Studii Generalis. Four faculties were initiated: Theology, Law, Medicine (which awarded degrees in Philosophy and Medicine) and Mathematics. In 1753, a document of Emperor Francis I of Hapsburg - Lorraine extended the recognition of degrees from Camerino to the whole territory of the Holy Roman Empire and, among other things, conferred the honour of Count Palatine on the Rector. In 1870, with the Unification of Italy, Camerino was recognized as a Free University.

Under the new statute, Faculties and Departments have been merged into autonomous structures called University Schools or SARRF , which are responsible for Research and Training. They have scientific, educational, organizational autonomy. Under University Regulations for the administration, the SARRF also have financial management and accounting autonomy.
The SARRF unifies the skills of the previous structure of Departments (research) and Faculties (training ). The new units are responsible for conducting and coordinating research, training, transfer of skills and knowledge services.