University of Padua

The University of Padua is an Italian university in Padua, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. A group of Bologna students and lecturers formed the University of Padua in 1222. Padua University is Italy's second-oldest and the world's fifth-oldest surviving university. The university has around 65,000 students in 2010. According to the Censis institute, it was named second "best university" among Italian university of higher education with more than 40,000 students in 2021, and in the top 200 universities in the world by ARWU. Padua is still one of Italy's and Europe's most prestigious universities today. It consists of 32 departments, eight schools that coordinate each department's courses, as well as 49 specialization schools and 43 research and service centers.

Padua University has several schools, including Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Economics and Political Science, Law, Engineering, Medicine, Psychology, Science, and Human and Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage. It also has a number of affiliated centers, research organizations, and science and technology hubs. It also has a university hospital, a museum, a library, a school of excellence, and 14 residence halls on its grounds.

Padua is a member of the Coimbra Group, a group of historical research universities. The universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Heidelberg, Salamanca, Jena, Leuven, and Leiden are among the other members of this network.

Established: 1222

Website: unipd.it/en/