The University of Padua is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from Bologna.

Padua is the second-oldest university in Italy and the world’s fifth-oldest surviving university. In 2010 the university had approximately 65,000 students, in 2016 was ranked “best university” among Italian institutions of higher education with more than 40,000 students, and in 2018 best Italian university according to ARWU ranking.

Departments

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
Economics and Political sciences
Engineering
Human and social sciences and cultural heritage
Law
Medicine and surgery
Psychology
Sciences