University of Udine
The University of Udine was established in 1978. In just over forty years, it has gained a considerable profile at the national, European, and international levels.
Its action is based on four pillars: higher education, research and technology transfer, interaction with the territory, and internationalization, in a constant exchange of knowledge and new ideas with the local economic environment and society at large.
Encounters, exchanges, and cross-pollination are the key to understanding the role that the University of Friuli plays within a region that has always been a crossroads of diverse worlds and cultures, geographically located at the center of Europe.
Today, the University of Udine has over fifteen thousand students, more than six hundred professors, and around five hundred technical and administrative staff. It operates through eight departments.
The degree programs, coordinated by the departments, total about eighty, distributed across four areas: economics and law, medicine, science, humanities, and education. Around fifteen are international programs with double degree issuance, involving European countries and North and South American states. Additionally, the University runs the Graduate School, an institute of excellence that integrates regular university studies with highly qualified interdisciplinary training paths.
There are about twenty Specialization Schools and over ten Ph.D. programs. The University offers first and second-level university Masters, in addition to Executive Courses for updating and developing one's work skills, covering four thematic areas: managerial-legal; medical-healthcare; scientific-technological; humanities, communication, and education.