University of Pavia

The University of Pavia, founded in 1361, is one of the oldest universities in Europe. Today, it offers a total of 89 degree courses, participates in International research projects and has established strong links with the world of business. Pavia’s campus is tailor-made to the needs of its 24,000 students and the University’s 16 colleges provide young men and women with an environment in which they can live and grow together, exchange ideas and projects and plan for the future. There are around 1,200 foreign students currently enrolled at the University of Pavia. Every year their numbers are swelled by the 300 odd Erasmus students who decide to spend one or more trimesters in Pavia.

The University of Pavia is one of the oldest universities in Europe. An edict issued by King Lotharius quotes a higher education institution in Pavia as already established in 825. This institution, mainly devoted to law studies, was then chosen as the main education centre for northern Italy. Enlarged and renovated by the Duke of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, it became the University of the Duchy, officially established as a Studium Generale by Emperor Charles IV in 1361.

Pavia boasts four traditional, merit-based colleges. These offer internal university courses where research is particularly valued:

• Almo Collegio Borromeo
• Collegio Ghislieri
• Collegio Nuovo (female)
• Collegio Santa Caterina (female)

The University of Pavia combines treatment and research in three leading university hospitals and, with other important institutions, made Pavia a modern technological centre for advanced research on the reduction of seismic risk (EUCENTRE), cancer treatment (CNAO), nuclear energy (LENA).

The university has created 7 research centres and, with its 17 PhD programmes, is an active promoter of research with the world’s most prestigious academic institutions, favouring the expansion of links with local and global industry.

The University of Pavia is expanding the number of English-taught courses on offer. Starting from the first three masters' degrees in english - a six-year course in Medicine and Surgery, the Masters course in Molecular Biology and Genetics (Scienze) and the Masters in International Business and Economics (Economia) - there are more english-taught courses: the laurea magistralis course in Political Sciences, that offers an in-depth study of World Politics and International Relations, the laurea magistralis Economics, finance and international integration aiming to pursue advanced studies in the field of applied economics and finance in an international perspective, and two Engineering courses, that focus on Computer Engineering and Electronic Engineering. 
Course coordinators are already assessing hundreds of applications from all over the world.