The University of Siena in Siena, Tuscany, is one of the oldest and first publicly funded universities in Italy. Originally called Studium Senese, the institution was founded in 1240. It had around 20,000 students in 2006, nearly half of Siena‘s total population of around 54,000.
Today, the University of Siena is best known for its Schools of Law, Medicine, and Economics and Management.
Organization
Since 2012, after the general reform of Italian Universities (“Gelmini Act”), the University is composed of fifteen departments, grouped in four areas:
- Biomedical and Medical Sciences
- Department of Medical Biotechnologies
- Department of Molecular and Developmental Medicine
- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience
- Economics, Law and Political Sciences
- Department of Economics and Statistics
- Department of Law
- Department of Political and International Sciences
- Department of Business and Law
- Experimental Sciences
- Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy
- Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics
- Department of Life Sciences
- Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment
- Literature, History, Philosophy and the Arts
- Department of Philology and Literary Criticism
- Department of Education, Human Sciences and Intercultural Communication
- Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences
- Department of History and Cultural Heritage
Each department offers graduate and undergraduate courses.