University of Padua
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The University of Padua (Italian: Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian public research university in Padua, Italy. It was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from the University of Bologna,[2] who previously settled in Vicenza, thus, it is the second-oldest university in Italy, as well as the world's fifth-oldest surviving university.[3]
The University of Padua was one of the most prominent universities in early modern Europe, known particularly for the rigor of its Aristotelean logic and science.[4] Together with the University of Bologna, Padua had a central role in the italian renaissance, housing and educating a number of italian renaissance mathemathicians, amongst them Nicolaus Copernicus.
Today, it is made up of 32 departments and eight schools.[5] Padua is part a network of historical research universities known as the Coimbra Group.[6] In 2021, the university had approximately 72,000 students including undergraduates, postgraduates, and doctoral students.[7]
History
The university is conventionally said to have been founded in 1222 when a large group of students and professors left the
The student body was divided into groups known as
- the cismontanes for the Italian students
- the ultramontanes for those who came from beyond the Alps
From the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, the university was renowned for its research, particularly in the areas of medicine, astronomy, philosophy and law. At the time it was the most renowned school of medicine internationally.[8] During this time, the university adopted the Latin motto: Universa universis patavina libertas (Paduan Freedom is Universal for Everyone). Nevertheless, the university had a turbulent history, and there was no teaching in 1237–1261, 1509–1517, 1848–1850.
The
The university began teaching medicine around 1250. It played a leading role in the identification and treatment of diseases and ailments, specializing in autopsies and the inner workings of the body.[9]
Since 1595, Padua's famous
On 25 June 1678,
The university became one of the universities of the
The last years of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century saw a reversal of the centralisation process that had taken place in the sixteenth: scientific institutes were set up in what became veritable campuses; a new building to house the Arts and Philosophy faculty was built in another part of the city centre (Palazzo del Liviano, designed by
In recent years, the university has been able to meet the problems posed by overcrowded facilities by re-deploying over the Veneto as a whole. In 1990, the Institute of Management Engineering was set up in Vicenza, after which the summer courses at Brixen (Bressanone) began once more, and in 1995 the Agripolis centre at Legnaro (for Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine) opened. Other sites of re-deployment are at Rovigo, Treviso, Feltre, Castelfranco Veneto, Conegliano, Chioggia and Asiago.
Recent changes in state legislation have also opened the way to greater autonomy for Italian universities, and in 1995 Padua adopted a new Statute that gave it greater independence.
As the publications of innumerable conferences and congresses show, the modern-day University of Padua plays an important role in scholarly and scientific research at both a European and world level. True to its origins, this is the direction in which the university intends to move in the future, establishing closer links of cooperation and exchange with all the world's major research universities.
Since 2022, the University of Padua has been experiencing difficulties with the payments of scholarships for the "right to study". Thus, leaving 1955 students (207 of that international students) without any kind of accommodation and receiving stipends.
Organization and administration
Finances
The university foresaw a budget of €831 million for the 2023 fiscal year. Of this, €545 million were contributions paid by the Ministry of Education, University and Research of Italy, the European Union, local administrations like regions and provinces, and other entities. The remaining €232 million were classified as own revenues, of which €106 million came from tuition fees and €125 million from research-related income.[10]
The amount of tuition students pay depends on their major, the financial situation of their household and if they take more time to graduate compared to the established length of their program. Tuition is also significantly lowered for non-EU citizens of certain developing countries. There are also scholarships and fee-waivers based on merit on other factors. Generally, most students who are graduating in time and are not from low income households will pay around €2,700/year for the 2023/24 academic year. [11]
Rankings
The university is constantly ranked among the best Italian universities.
For 2023, in
The 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings lists the university at 4th place in Italy and in the 201st-250th range worldwide. QS World University Rankings ranks the university 4th in Italy in 2024 and the best in Italy to study geology and geophysics, earth and sea sciences, biological sciences, psychology, anatomy and physiology. It also places the University of Padua at 219th in the world for 2024.[14] Also, according to QS World University Rankings, the University of Padua is ranked 125th in the field of Medicine.[15]
The
The CWTS Leiden Ranking, based exclusively on bibliometric indicators, places the University of Padua as 2nd place in Italy and 104th worldwide.[17]
Notable people
Alumni
Notable people who have attended the University of Padua include:[19]
- In natural sciences
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) Polish mathematician and astronomer, placed Sun at center of Solar System
- John Caius (1510–1573) English physician
- Vesalius(1514–1564) known as founder of modern human anatomy; offered professorship at Padua, but died
- Gabriele Falloppio (1523–1562) anatomist; anatomy of head and internal ear; reproductive organs
- William Harvey (1578–1657) anatomist; described function of heart and circulatory system
- George Ent (1604–1689) English anatomist, supporter of Harvey
- Thomas Browne (1605–1682) English writer and physician
- Sir Edward Greaves (1608–1680) English physician.
- Nathaniel Eaton (1610–1674), Ph.D. and M.D., first Head Master of Harvard College
- Tommaso Perelli (1704–1783), Italian astronomer
- Federico Faggin (1941–) designer of the first commercial microprocessor
- Mario Rizzetto (1945–) Italian virologist; worked with Hepatitis D virus
- Petros Kestoras (1957–) Cipriot diplomat
- Luigi Dall'Igna (1966–) General manager of Ducati Corse
- In politics and government
- Ludovico Trevisan (1401–1465), Cardinal, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Archbishop of Florence, Patriarch of Aquileia, Captain General of the Church, and physician.
- Sir Francis Walsingham (ca 1532–1590) spymaster for Queen Elizabeth I
- Jan Zamoyski (1542-1605), Polish nobleman, magnate, diplomat and statesman
- Seneschal Constantine Cantacuzino Stolnic (c. 1650–1716), Romanian nobleman and humanist scholar who held high offices in the Principality of Wallachia. Author of a History of Wallachia (unfinished), he was the first Romanian to ever graduate from this prestigious university.[20]
- Ioannis Kapodistrias (1776–1831), 1st Governor of Greece, Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire
- Alexandros Mavrokordatos (1791–1865), Prime Minister of Greece
- Luigi Luzzatti (1841–1927), financier, political economist, social philosopher and jurist, 20th Prime Minister of Italy
- Abdirahman Jama Barre (1937–2017), Foreign Minister of Somalia
- Draghi CabinetFinance Minister.
- In arts, theology and literature
- Saint Albertus Magnus (d.1280)
- Mikołaj Kiczka (around 1382-1429), nobleman, diplomat and priest
- Francesco Barbaro (1390-1454), humanist
- Nicolas of Cusa(1401–1464), in canon law. German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer.
- Ermolao Barbaro (1454–1493) Italian renaissance scholar
- Sir John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester (1458–1464)
- Giovanni Pico(1463-1494), humanist
- Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), poet and cardinal
- Eastern Slavic language
- Reginald Pole (1500-1558), cardinal
- Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius (1504-1579)
- Daniele Barbaro (1514-1570), translator of Vitruvius
- Pomponio Algerio (1531-1556), student of civil law (1550s) executed under the Roman Catholic Inquisition
- Jacopo Zabarella (1533–1589) physics, metaphysics, and mathematics.
- George Acworth(1534–1578?), Anglican priest and civil lawyer
- Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), poet
- Theophilos Corydalleus (1563–1546) Greek Neo-Aristotelian philosopher, started Korydalism.
- István Szamosközy (1565–1612), humanist and historian from Transylvania, the leading figure of Hungarian historiography at the beginning of the 17th century
- Saint Francis de Sales (1567–1622), double doctorate "in utroque jure", that is, in canon and civil law (1591)
- Roger Manners(1576-1612), 5th Earl of Rutland and poet and abettor of Essex's Rebellion
- Angelus Silesius (1624-1677), German priest, physician and poet
- doctor of philosophydegree
- Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770), musician and composer
- Moses Hayyim Luzzatto(1707-1746), kabbalist and playwright, founder of Hebrew literature
- Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), traveller, author and seducer
- Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), Italian writer, revolutionary, and poet
- Edgar Manas (1875-1964), composer
- Boris Pahor (1913-2022), writer
Notable faculty
- Ermolao Barbaro (1454–1493), appointed professor of philosophy in 1477
- Leonik Tomeu(1456–1531) first to teach Aristotle in original Greek
- Jacopo Zabarella (1533–1589) held chairs of logic, and philosophy, from 1564 to 1589
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) held chair of mathematics[21] between 1592 and 1610
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), mathematics lecturer, and the first woman to receive a PhD degree[22]
- Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730) held chairs of practical medicine, and theoretical medicine, between 1700 and 1730
- Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1681–1771) held chairs of theoretical medicine, and anatomy, between 1711 and 1771
- Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941) held the chair of Rational Mechanics, famous for his work on the absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and many other important contributions in the area of Pure and Applied Mathematics
- Concetto Marchesi (1878–1957) rector from 1943 to 1953
- Sergio Bettini (1905–1986) professor of History of Medieval Art and History of Art Criticism
- Gianfranco Folena (1920–1992) Professor of the History of the Italian Language
- Gian Piero Brunetta (1942-) Professor of cinema history and criticism
- Patrizia Pontisso (1955–) Professor of internal medicine
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- Emilio Quaia Professor of radiology
Departments
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The University of Padua offers a wide range of degrees, organized by Departments:
- Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment
- Department of Biology
- Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health
- Department of Biomedical Sciences
- Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences
- Department of Chemical Sciences
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
- Department of Communication Sciences
- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science
- Department of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology and History of Art, Cinema and Music
- Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation
- Department of Economics and Management
- Department of General Psychology
- Department of Geosciences
- Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World
- Department of Industrial Engineering
- Department of Information Engineering
- Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry
- Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies
- Department of Management and Engineering
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Molecular Medicine
- Department of Neurosciences
- Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences
- Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Department of Political and Juridical Sciences and International Studies
- Department of Private Law and Critique of Law
- Department of Public, International and Community Law
- Department of Statistical Sciences
- Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology
- Department of Women's and Children's Health
Schools
Departments have been united in a limited number of Schools:
- Agricultural science and Veterinary medicine
- Political sciences
- Engineering
- social sciences and cultural heritage
- Law
- Medicine and surgery
- Psychology
- Sciences
See also
- List of oldest universities in continuous operation
- List of Italian universities
- List of medieval universities
- List of split up universities
- ICoN Interuniversity Consortium for Italian Studies
- Padua
- Coimbra Group
- Top Industrial Managers for Europe
References
- ^ CUS Padova
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- ^ "Università di Padova". Top Universities. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
- ^ "The University of Padua". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
- ^ "University of Padua". Times Higher Education (THE). 2021-11-13. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
- ^ "List of Members | Coimbra". www.coimbra-group.eu. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
- ^ USTAT. "Esplora i dati". USTAT. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ISBN 9780674983922.
- ^ Jerome J. Bylebyl, "The School of Padua: humanistic medicine in the 16th century," in Charles Webster, ed., Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century (1979) ch10
- ^ Padova, Università di (2013-06-19). "Bilanci". Università degli studi di Padova (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-08-09.
- ^ "Tuition fees 2023/24 | Università di Padova". www.unipd.it. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
- ^ "Best Global Universities Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News & World Report L.P. 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ "ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities". www.shanghairanking.com. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings 2024". Top Universities. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings for Medicine 2023". Top Universities. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
- ^ "University of Padua". nturanking.csti.tw. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
- ^ Studies (CWTS), Centre for Science and Technology. "CWTS Leiden Ranking". CWTS Leiden Ranking. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
- ^ "Een diploma geneeskunde van de Universiteit van Padua, uitgereikt in 1642 aan de Gentenaar Jan Damman (of Daman)". lib.ugent.be. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ^ For a summary description of all of the set of scholars and literati who intervened in teaching at the University of Padua since its inception to the eve of the Industrial Revolution (1800), see David de la Croix and Mara Vitale,(2021). Scholars and Literati at the University of Padua (1222–1800).Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae/RETE. 3:33–42.
- ISBN 0-8108-3179-1.
- ^ "The Galileo Project – Chronology – Galileo Timeline". Retrieved 31 May 2015.
- ^ "Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia". Agnesscott.edu. Retrieved 2013-09-05.
External links
- Scholars and Literati at the University of Padua (1222–1800), Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae – RETE
- University of Padua Website (in Italian and English)
- Museums of the University (in Italian and English)
- Faculty of Engineering (in Italian and English)
- University Human Rights Centre (in English)