University of Bari
Italian university
The University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italian: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro) is a public higher education institution founded in 1925 in Bari, Apulia in Southern Italy. The university has a student population of around 40,000.
On 15 January 2010, the university changed its name to honour the statesman and prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–1978), a student of law there until 1939 who then served as ordinary professor of philosophy of Law and Colonial Policy (1941) and of Criminal Law (1942). He was Prime Minister of Italy for five terms in the 60s and 70s.
Organization
The University of Bari is divided into various faculties. Each faculty has its own set of departments that focus on the arts and sciences, mathematics, social sciences, literature, medicine, law, and education. These are the 13 faculties in which the university is divided into:
Faculty of Agricultural Science
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Faculty of Biotechnological Sciences
Faculty of Communication Studies
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Educational Science
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Science
Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Political Science
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Ionian Department of Law and Economics (Taranto)
The university offers various courses for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students. Aside from teaching, the university is also focused on scientific research at the doctorate level. The University of Bari research centres are highly-interactive, having connections among different departments, universities, and other research centres.
Rankings
The university has been awarded the following ranking positions:
ranked 359th by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR, 2016)
ranked 437th by the CWTS Leiden Ranking (2016)
ranked 401–500th, Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking (2016)
ranked over 500th by Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU, 2017)
ranked over 700th by QS World University Rankings (2016)
The university is one of the 48 Italian higher education institutions in the CWUR list of the top 1000 universities in the world for 2016.
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