University of Siena

Italy

The University of Siena Background

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.

The University of Siena Programs and Courses

The University is composed of fifteen departments, grouped in four areas, Biomedical and Medical Sciences, ?Economics, Law and Political Sciences, Experimental Sciences, Literature, History, Philosophy and the Arts. Each department offers graduate and undergraduate courses. Since 2014 the Department of Economics and Statistics and the Department of Business and Law merged their undergraduate and graduate courses into the School of Economics and Management?

The University of Siena Campuses

Siena’s campus is the city. The academy lives as an integral part of the urban fabric in both space and time. Thus there is an uneasy equilibrium between city and university, where 20 thousand students lived among the 50 thousand Sienese. 

The University of Siena Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni of the University include Pietro Ispano, Pope John XXI, Professor of Medicine, Cino da Pistoia, Professor of Law, Antonio de Venafro, advisor to Pandolfo Petrucci, Ruler of the Republic of Siena