| Hello everyone, welcome back to ItalianPod101.com. |
| My name is Desy. |
| Mi chiamo Desy. |
| In this video, we're going to talk about the top 10 universities in Italy. |
| le dieci migliori università in Italia |
| How would you know? You could ask, right? Because I'm no one to establish that. |
| But there is an institute who actually does that. |
| It's called CENSIS, Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali, Social Investment Studies Center, |
| the center where you study social investments, and it was founded in 1964. |
| And since then, it has been analyzing all universities. |
| Of course, there are different groups and categories because it depends on size, |
| if they're public or not, and so on. |
| But there are some general criteria, like for example, the services they offer to students |
| or how much international they are, or even the digital communication and so on. |
| So based on that, I'm telling you the top 10. |
| If you want to go into details, there are different categories, as I was saying before, |
| but this is the general, like the mixed classification. |
| And it goes from a score of 96, the first one, till around 80 out of 100, of course. |
| And the first one is Università Boccone di Milano, founded in 1902. |
| As you may have noticed, Milano means that it's in Milan and it's private. |
| It was the first university to offer economics majors in Italy. |
| So it still is famous for that major. |
| It really became a status to say that you went to Bocconi or that you graduated there. |
| In fact, people say that it's easier to find a job if you say that you graduated there, right? |
| Because the name is really important in Italy. |
| The thing is that there has been a bit of controversy as well, |
| because people say that in the end, even though it's private, |
| they're taking some funds from the public institutions because |
| it's in the interest of Italy as well to keep having such a good prestige in a university. |
| So it's like, who's those money and blah, blah, blah. |
| But that's up to you to decide if you want to believe that or not. |
| Still, it's the first one and it's really, really famous in Italy. |
| Number two is Università Luis, with double S, which is not a name. |
| It just says for Libera Università Internazionale Studi Sociali. |
| So Free International Social Studies University. |
| It's also known as Luis Guido Carli, |
| because Guido Carli was the president from 1977 to 1993. |
| Mind that it was founded just like three years before he was president, |
| so basically the whole time he was president. |
| That's why it's called with his name as well. |
| And it was founded by one of the brothers Agnelli, |
| which is a really rich family and powerful in Italy, |
| because they founded a lot of the companies that you may know from Italy. |
| It's based in Rome, same as the third one, Università Lumsa, |
| which means Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta. |
| This one, as the name may suggest, it's a Catholic university. |
| It's the second oldest school in Rome after La Sapienza. |
| It was founded in 1939 and it also has a branch in Palermo. |
| This one, same as the second one, the Luis, |
| is famous for its majors in law, political science and economics. |
| Number four is the University of Bologna, |
| which is also known as Unibo, which is a university Bologna, |
| and also Alma Master Studiorum, which was the name in Latin. |
| Pretty cool, huh? |
| It's cool not only for the name, |
| but also because it's the oldest university in the world. |
| It was founded in 1088, okay, and it's still operating. |
| So, of course, it's really prestigious. |
| It even has museums inside. |
| And it's interesting also because it was founded by students, basically. |
| There was like a group of students that wanted to have someone who told them, |
| so they collected some money and they even offered that to professors. |
| And that's how the university started. |
| Here there are 32 majors, so you can find basically anything. |
| It goes from laws to languages to agriculture, everything. |
| Number five, Università Italiana di Perugia, Perugia's University, founded in 1308. |
| This one is also pretty old and it's famous for its emblem, actually, |
| because it has a saint on one side and a griffin on the other one. |
| So both the holy and pagan spirit, let's say. |
| Here too, a lot of majors, 14, from chemistry to architecture. |
| Number six, Università degli Studi di Trento, founded in 1962. |
| It also became famous because it was a center of the protests of 68 in Italy. |
| In fact, it's famous for its social studies major. |
| But it's also really involved in food and pharmaceutical studies and environment as well. |
| In fact, it's famous for having agreements with Innsbruck and Bolzano as well. |
| Università degli Studi di Udine, number seven, if you don't know where Udine is, |
| it's like even after Venice, so basically close to the one that we were talking before. |
| This one is interesting because it's the only university where on top of Italian, |
| of course, known as the standard language, there's also Friulano, |
| which is Friuli Venezia Giulia's dialect. |
| Friuli Venezia Giulia is the region of Udine, also the region of Venice. |
| That's maybe why you may have heard that before as well. |
| And this university too, as the one in Bologna, was founded because people asked for it. |
| Number eight, Università degli Studi di Padova. |
| This one was founded in 1222 because people from Bologna actually moved to have another branch, |
| especially to be free to study what they wanted. |
| In fact, especially religion-wise, this is known to be a free university |
| because after the counter-reform, it was still free for all. |
| Number nine, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza. |
| The knowledge, literally. |
| As I mentioned before, this one is also really old and it's the biggest in Europe. |
| Founded in 1303, nowadays it has many sites around Rome where you can study |
| and it's basically where most of the powerful people in Italy studied. |
| Lastly, number ten, Università di Napoli Federico II in Naples. |
| Named after Federico II of Svevia, actually, which was the king of Sicily, |
| but also known to be the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. |
| So for all the universities which I didn't specify the major they're famous in, |
| it basically means that they have all of them because nowadays like they kept expanding |
| so you can find pretty much everything you want to study, okay? |
| Also, I would like to add some vocabulary because since it was more about universities themselves, |
| we didn't talk about Italian language, but I want you to know that saying |
| I attend blah blah blah university is |
| which wasn't mentioned, but it was my university, so that goes for my example. |
| To drop out of university, you say |
| lasciare, lascio l'università. |
| Then I want you to know that study cycles are divided into |
| so three years, which are the two years that you put on top of the tree, |
| so basically it's a five-year cycle. |
| Magistrale, then of course you have |
| or master, we also say master degree, master. |
| Something that you may want to ask is borsa di studio, borsa di studio, so scholarship, |
| borsa di studio, and the most common majors are economics, business, so economia, |
| economia, law, |
| this is such a long name, it's pretty cool to say |
| foreign languages, and |
| medicina, medical studies. |
| So if you had the chance, |
| which university do you choose? |
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