educationitaly.org

Here is the list of degrees that are provided by Italian universities.

The study programs can be designed under the new or the old university standards that are the rules having legal validity respectively after and also before 1999 reform held by the Bologna Declaration.

Some new degrees were designed in accordance to the standards of university system since November 1999. Old degrees were designed in compliance to norms of university system up to October 1999.

The five big subject brunches covering the total university education are: humanities, health, social studies, sciences, technology. Every brunch is divided into the next major subject sectors:
1.    Health: pharmacy, dentistry, midwifery, human medicine & surgery, nursing, technical sanitary assistance, preventive care;

2.    Humanities: cultural heritage, arts (visual, performing, music, fashion), education, history, geography; Italian and classical studies, modern languages and cultures (linguistics, glottology, philology, literature), language mediation (translating, interpreting, applied foreign languages);

3.    Sciences: animal production & husbandry,  agriculture, biotechnology, biology, environmental sciences, food industry & forestry, chemistry, natural sciences, statistics, physics;

4.    Social studies: business, administration, cooperation & development, communication, economics, defence & security, law, psychology, physical education & sports, tourism, social service & sociology;

5.   Technology: design, architecture & building engineering, engineering, urban planning, regional & environmental planning.

“Study in Italy” is useful information tool for those students who want to attend higher education programs in Italy, at postgraduate and undergraduate level. This national site offers the next information: kinds of higher education institutions, admission process, various study programs, non-university higher education qualifications, university degrees, tuition language, welfare services, student life and, country information and many other important things.

Links to other sites are given, where detailed information on special themes of personal interest is accessible. “Study in Italy” is the project of MIUR, carried out together with the CIMEA and CINECA.

The website has such mane because Italy as the state has played a significant role in higher education in Europe. It belongs to four states that were occupied to make “European Area of Higher Education” on Sorbonne Declaration in  May, 1998, therefore beginning that kind of higher education reform called “Bologna Process” that was held in June, 1999 on Bologna Declaration, is being accomplished all over Europe.

Nowadays Italy is situated among eight the most developed states in the world. Alongside big firms, both private and state-owned, the country has developed a stable network of medium-sized and small businesses, promoted some scientific parks. It is incentivizing applied and basic research in a variety of brunches.