Year of establishment: 1404
With over 67.000 students and more than 3900 academic and administrative staff, the University of Torino (UniTO) in north-west Italy is one of the country's largest and most prestigious Universities.
The University of Torino (UniTO) was founded in 1404 and is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Italy. Many of the leading figures in 20th century Italian political, social and cultural life, such as Antonio Gramsci, Piero Gobetti, Palmiro Togliatti, Massimo Bontempelli, Norberto Bobbio and Cesare Pavese, graduated from UniTO, as well as three Nobel Prizes for Medicine Winners, Salvatore Luria, Rita Levi Montalcini, Renato Dulbecco, and two Italian Republic Presidents, Luigi Einaudi and Giuseppe Saragat. UniTO is today one of the largest Italian Universities, open to international research and training. It carries out scientific research and organizes courses in all disciplines, except for Engineering and Architecture. It hosts about 70,000 students and 4,000 academic and administrative staff and offers about 150 undergraduate and postgraduate courses in a wide range of subject areas. With 120 buildings in different areas in Torino and in key places in Piedmont, UniTO can be considered as “city-within-a-city”, promoting culture and producing research, innovation, training and employment. Torino is located in the earth of Europe, well connected to the main Italian and European cities. It is the capital of the Piedmont region and is considered a cultural, economic and industrial pole, base for several UN agencies and more than 50 Consulates. It is actively involved in different social contexts: environment, equal opportunities, defence of the rights. It also acts at an international level, by partnership arrangements with universities in the BRIC countries and in other nations in Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and in the Mediterranean area. UniTO maintains roughly 500 formal agreements with foreign universities and 800 cooperation agreements for Erasmus student exchanges. In order to be able to offer its students the chance to internationalize their education, UniTO is involved in several international networks, supports the Erasmus+ Programme and promotes other specific initiatives (34 bi-national degrees, 11 degree courses in English, work experiences abroad in agreement with the study plan). In 2014 UniTO was the 1st in Italy and among the top 200 universities worldwide, for ARWU Shanghai. In Italy it was 4th for Times Higher Education and 5th for US News Best Global.
