The University of Trieste is a public research university in Trieste in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy. The university consists of 10 departments, boasts a wide and almost complete range of university courses and has about 15,000 students and 1,000 professors. It was founded in 1924.
Organization
These are the 10 departments into which the university is divided on the basis of the major reorganisation of the university’s academic structure which took place in 2010:
- Clinical Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences
- Department of Physics
- Department of Engineering and Architecture
- Department of Mathematics and Geosciences
- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Department of Life Sciences
- Department of Economic, Business, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
- Department of Legal, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies
- Department of Political and Social Sciences
- Department of Humanities
A Language Centre was established as an independent service on 1 January 2003. The centre provides fundamental support in the following areas: organisation and running of taught language courses in all the Faculties of Trieste University; organisation of Italian courses (beginner, intermediate and advanced level) for Erasmus students both going abroad and coming to Trieste.