Tuesday 5 December 2006

University of Lugano







University of Lugano

The University of Lugano (Università della Svizzera italiana-USI) was founded in 1996. As a public institution , it joined the nine cantonal universities and two federal institutes of technology that form the Swiss university system. It distinguishes itself as the only university outside Italy where the official language of tuition is Italian.
Today, USI comprises four Faculties: Economics, Communication Sciences and Computer Sciences in Lugano, and Architecture in Mendrisio, for a total student population of approximately 2026 from 30 different countries, and a total teaching staff of 400 professors and assistants.
Benefiting from a unique geographic, political, and cultural location, USI has gained distinction as a multilingual and multicultural university, with a broad international outlook. It enjoys privileged relations with several Italian universities, particularly with those located in Northern Italy, and has built special collaborative or exchange partnerships with a number of foreign universities in Europe and elsewhere.
A period of practical training (internship) is an integral part of the undergraduate curriculum in general: thus by fulfilling this requirement, with a firm, institution or organisation in Switzerland or abroad, undergraduates contribute to promoting the image of a university open to the ‘real’ world of work.
Small size, direct student-teacher contact, fruitful synergies between the different disciplines (the humanistic, the socio-economic, and the technological), but also ample classroom and laboratory space as well as top-quality equipment and facilities: USI offers the ideal premises for the pursuit of learning and research.

For more information directly contact the University following the link below:
www.unisi.ch

3 comments:

Luca Savio said...

Good pictures, good text..
Great! ;-)

anna said...

Thanks for information, i thought it was founded 10 years erlier...

Unknown said...

Since it is not fair that SOMEONE has commented this post..I will do it! Your pictures are really good!And you have provided us a lot of information about the University..so,I guess it's true we have to do this internship,don't we?
Now it's more fair.. (fairer?) :)