University of Trento

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University of Trento
Università degli Studi di Trento


Established:	1962
Type:	State-supported
Rector:	Prof. Davide Bassi
Students:	15,000
Location:	Trento, Italy
Sports teams:	CUS Trento (http://www.unitn.it/cus/)
Website:	www.unitn.it/

The University of Trento (Italian Università degli Studi di Trento, UNITN) is a university located in Trento, Italy. It was founded in 1962 and is organized in 7 Faculties and 14 Departments. The university has over 15,000 students.

Since 2001, when the national ranking by CENSIS started, Trento keeps the Top places in the national ranking of the more than seventy Italian Universities and Faculties and the first place in many scientific areas.

1 History
2 Organization
3 Sports Teams
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

The University of Trento is one of the youngest Italian Universities. In the year 1962 the Autonomous Province of Trento founded the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Sociali with the purposes of 'promoting the progress of the social sciences by providing the scientific knowledge and methodological skills, required by those embarking on careers in teaching, scientific research, or activities and professions which require an academic background in the social disciplines'.

In 1972 the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Sociali became the Libera Università degli Studi di Trento (a private University). The University now had three Faculties: a Faculty of Sociology, a Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, and a Faculty of Economics.

The academic year of 1982-1983 saw inception of the Universita' Statale degli Studi di Trento (State University). Opened in the following academic year were the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. The Faculty of Engineering was created in the academic year 1985-86. In the year 2004 the seventh Faculty-Cognitive Sciences-was founded.

Its Faculty of Sociology is famous for being the first of such schools to open in Italy. It was also origin in Italy of the students' protests of 1968. Many left-wing political leaders attended or visited the university, including Red Brigades' founder Renato Curcio.

[edit] Organization

These are the 7 faculties in which the university is divided into:

Faculty of Cognitive Science
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences
Faculty of Sociology

School of European and International Studies

[edit] Sports Teams

Students play several sports with the Centro Universitario Sportivo (CUS). CUS organises sailing courses (including special courses for disabled people), windsurfing, canoeing, rowing, alpine skiing, gymnastics, aerobics, aqua-gymnastics, tennis, basketball and gliding. Students enjoy special privileges such as discounts to swimming pools and gyms. The university organizes sports events that include Facoltiadi and interfaculty tournaments.

The university has three sporting centres for the development of basic sports skills and more advanced training towards competitions. Practiced sports include baseball, basketball, rowing, dragon boat, orienteering, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, tennis, triathlon, and sailing.