UCSC

Five campuses (Milano, Brescia, Piacenza-Cremona, Roma and Campobasso), 14 faculties, 51 three-year Major tracks (as established by a recent decree), 45 graduate level degrees, 1 four-year degree, almost 90 master tracks, 53 specializations and 5 High Schools. These are the basic numbers that characterize the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, founded in 1921 by Father Agostino Gemelli and legally recognized by the Italian State on October 2nd, 1924.

From among the universities which award legally recognized degrees (as with Italian State Universities), the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is the most comprehensive and complete in Italy. Our network of Cultural Development Centers extends as far as the Italian islands, making our University strongly national, with the added bonus of also being recognized in the international scientific community.

Thanks to its prestigious faculty, the Università Cattolica excels in the diverse and articulate study opportunities that it offers, both in the humanities, as well as the scientific fields. Through the courses offered, combined with strong research programmes, the university values and promotes an interdisciplinary approach, which helps students gain scientific knowledge in a responsible and autonomous fashion.

Our extensive research programme closely collaborates with 16 internal colleges, 64 departments and 93 research centres. Their common goal is the understanding and study of those topics that have proved vital to the well being of each human being: the new frontiers of economics, bioethics, environmental recuperation, developments in the judicial fields, family dynamics, major mass phenomena, the evolution of political systems, new horizons in medicine, the technological applications of physics and mathematics, and the most recent discoveries in environmental research.

The Faculty of Economics in Piacenza, founded in 1990, offers 2 main undergraduate bachelor degrees (lauree di primo livello): the Laurea in Economia Aziedale is more business and management oriented both for small-medium firms and multinational enterprises; the Laurea in Economics is more mainstream economic theory-driven. Both degrees offer various specialisations, which match the demand of labour market with skills and ambitions of students.

Master’s degrees are available as well as 2 postgraduate two-year degrees: the Laurea Specialistica in Gestione d’Azienda and the Laurea Specialistica in Economia Applicata.

Lectures are organised in 3 terms, each one of 8 weeks. At the end of each term an examination session is set. Tutors support students throughout the academic year. This structure reduces the students’ workload and generally allows them to get good results quickly.

Many services are supplied to make productive the student life on Campus:

- Accommodation: foreign students are especially helped to find the right accommodation (shared-flat or dormitory on or off-campus);

- Library: the library’s total collection currently has approx. 79,000 volumes and brochures and more than 5,000 periodicals;

- Computer lab: students are provided with a Student Card which gives them access to the computer lab;

- Assistance for disabled: the service promotes the full independence and integration of disabled students;

- Pastoral Centre: students may avail themselves to the Pastoral Centre open to all students wishing to further their human and Christian development or needing assistance of any kind.

- Recreational activities: theatre classes, photography classes, cooking classes, and chess classes are organised almost every year;

- Sports: the Centro Polisportivo Universitario - 800 sq.mt. - offers opportunities to play tennis and football, a gym to play basketball, volleyball, and handball, a well-equipped weight room and a 15-metre artificial structure for rock climbing practice;

- Part-time job opportunities: Università Cattolica students have the possibility of part-time work opportunities within the offices of the university institution.

Piacenza is located on the northwest border of Emilia-Romagna in a key position between the Po River, Padana plain and the Apennine mountains. Founded by the Romans more than 2,200 years ago, it is rich with history: the city and the countryside all around offer numerous points of interest, cultural, natural, food or wine-related. Today Piacenza shows excellence in the traditional and well-known agricultural production, as well as in the mechanics manufacturing industry and in the most advanced logistic services - recently developed due to its strategic geographical position. For many years, Piacenza has boasted a notably high standard of living in both socio-cultural and economic standards. Welcoming and liveable it is a pleasant medium-sized town in the North of Italy, close to the largest and most important Northern cities: Milano, Bologna and Torino.