University of Bari


The University of Bari Aldo Moro is a public higher education institution founded in 1925 in Bari, Apulia in Southern Italy. The university has a student population of around 40,000.
On 15 January 2010, the university changed its name to honour the statesman and prime minister Aldo Moro, a student of law there until 1939 who then served as ordinary professor of philosophy of Law and Colonial Policy and of Criminal Law.

Organization

The University of Bari is divided into various faculties. Each faculty has its own set of departments that focus on the arts and sciences, mathematics, social sciences, literature, medicine, law, and education. These are the 13 faculties in which the university is divided into:
The university offers various courses for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students. Aside from teaching, the university is also focused on scientific research at the doctorate level. The University of Bari research centres are highly-interactive, having connections among different departments, universities, and other research centres.

Rankings

The university has been awarded the following ranking positions:
The university is one of the 48 Italian higher education institutions in the CWUR list of the top 1000 universities in the world for 2016. Moreover, it was ranked between 151st and 200th in the world for Physics by ARWU – Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2015.

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