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University Of L'Aquila

University Of L'Aquila

University Of L'Aquila

Introduction

Established in 1952 and ideally located in central Italy (L'Aquila being only 110 km away from Rome), our University is a public teaching and research institution offering a full range of academic programmes including biotechnologies, sciences, economics, engineering, education, humanities, medicine, psychology, and sport sciences. With 7 faculties, the University of L'Aquila offers its over 19,000 enrolled students 69 degree courses across the disciplines (both at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including international MSc courses entirely taught in English), 9 research doctorate programs, specialization schools, specializing-master courses, and vocational courses. Many members of its distinguished faculty of about 600 professors and researchers have received international recognition and are considered leaders in their fields of research.

Faculties

Our faculties promote, coordinate, and organize research activities for one or more sectors or scientific-disciplinary areas sharing the same objectives or research methodologies and promote, organize and carry out academic teaching within our University. The Faculties of the University of L'Aquila are the following: Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences | Civil, Construction-Architectural, and Environmental Engineering | Human Studies | Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics | Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics | Life, Health and Environmental Sciences | Physical and Chemical Sciences.

Other research structures

The University of L'Aquila has three centres of excellence (CETEMPS, DEWS, EX-EMERGE) and four research centres (CERFIS, CITRAMS, DMTA, M&MOCS). The University of L'Aquila is also responsible for running the Alpine Botanical Garden situated near the cableway on the Gran Sasso, which extends for 3000 sq metres and conserves plant life from the Gran Sasso, endemic central Apennine plant life, primitive alpine plants, plants originating from the Eastern Balkans and medicinal plants.

Research and teaching in Physics benefit from its associations with the underground nuclear physics Gran Sasso National Laboratory (INFIN - LNGS). There in the 1980s the National Institute for Nuclear Physics built beside the motorway tunnel through the Gran Sasso laboratories, where, protected by 1400 metres of rock, research in astrophysics, cosmology, nuclear physics and geophysics is carried out.

Professors and researchers of the University of L’Aquila have established links with the Gran Sasso Science Institute, an international PhD school and a center for advanced studies in physics, mathematics, computer science and social sciences located in L’Aquila.

Admissions

To enroll in a degree course, it is necessary to have a five-year Italian Higher Secondary School qualification - or four years with an additional year - or a qualification issued by other schools and recognized as equivalent.

Those who have a four-year secondary school diploma and who, taking into account the course of study they intend to enroll in, are also admitted to study courses, subject to the binding opinion of the Didactic Area Councils, are:

  • inserted in a professional context which, due to the qualifications and functions held, have entailed professional enrichment;
  • have attended, after graduation, higher level training courses managed by universities or by public or private bodies in agreement with the universities.

Students in this condition cannot access online enrollment, but must submit a prior request to their Student Secretariat accompanied by suitable certification attesting to the existence of the requirements indicated, for which the Board of the didactic area concerned must express itself. You can access the booking procedure for limited number courses to take the admission test, as it is admitted with reserve.

Those in possession of a University Diploma or a Degree can enroll regardless of the Diploma title held.

The Didactic Regulations of the courses of study may require the possession or acquisition of adequate initial preparation, defining unequivocally the knowledge required for access and determining, where necessary, the methods of verification. For degree courses, this verification can also take place at the end of preparatory training activities. The lack of such cultural requisites defined by the Regulations takes the name of educational debt. In order to facilitate the settlement of the educational debt, the Councils of the didactic area can foresee, within each degree course, the institution of preparatory training activities. These preparatory activities can be carried out, in certain periods of the academic year, favorable to the type of commitment of the student, also in collaboration with upper secondary education institutions or with other public or private bodies, on the basis of specific agreements approved by the Academic Senate. If the verification of the fulfillment of the educational debt is not positive, the Council of the didactic area can propose specific educational obligations to be satisfied in any case within the first year of the course. These additional educational obligations can also be assigned to students of admitted restricted access degree courses after passing the entrance test.

Warning

In accordance with art. 142 of the Consolidated Law on Higher Education, simultaneous enrollment in more than one course of study at the same or other university is prohibited.

Visa Requirements

Do you need a Visa to study in Italy? Then, you have to pre-enrol on Universitaly! The application procedure is completely web-based.

Non-EU students not living in Italy are requested to pre-enrol using the online platform Universitaly, including those who have already gone through UnivAQ pre-selection process.

Once your pre-enrolment application has been approved by our university, you will receive a confirmation e-mail. Additionally, an admission letter will be issued and enclosed to your pre-enrolment application on Universitaly. After that, you will have to get in contact with the Italian Diplomatic-consular mission for the visa request process. Please note that the university confirmation email and admission letter do not automatically imply that a study visa will be issued to you, as the Diplomatic-consular mission is the sole responsible for the final decision on this matter.

The deadline for the pre-enrolment on Universitaly is 30 September.

  • You are sure that you don’t need a visa and you gained your previous qualification in the EU. Then you won’t have to pre-enrol on Universitaly.
  • You don’t know whether or not you need a visa.

Then visit https://vistoperitalia.esteri.it/home/en and check it

For further information about the enrolment of non-EU citizens, see here.

If you need support, contact us through Help Point.

Scholarships and Funding

AmountApplication Deadline
Call for applications (Masters in Applied Data Science, Atmospheric Science and Technology, Civil Engineering, Computer and Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Telecommunications Engineering)
Call for applications (Erasmus Mundus "InterMaths" - Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Joint MSc "MathMods" - Mathematical Modelling in Engineering, Double MSc "RealMaths" - Mathematical Engineering)49,000 EURFebruary 29, 2024

Rankings

Locations

  • L'Aquila

    Piazza Santa Margherita,2, 67100, L'Aquila

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