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University of Rome Tor Vergata, also known as the University of Tor Vergata (), is a
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located in
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, Italy. Located in the southeastern suburb of Rome, the university combines a
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tradition with emphasis on career orientation in the field of Economics, Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, Natural Sciences, and Medicine. It was established in 1982 with the goal of providing high-quality education for students preparing to meet the changing needs and opportunities of the workforce. Furthermore, the university campus was designed to reflect the same atmosphere that students would feel on Anglophone campuses. Many professors of the university are important members of the Italian cultural and political environment. Its current rector is Nathan Levialdi Ghiron, a professor at the School of Engineering and former vice-Rector.


Origin of the name

The university takes its name from the 14th-century farmhouse "Turris Virgata" that was owned by the Roman noble Annibaldi family, whose remains lie beneath Villa Gentile on campus.


Campus

The university occupies a area outside the
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highway connection, in the eastern sector of the city. A
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(Tor Vergata Polyclinic), with state-of-the-art medical equipment, is located on campus. Near the university, there are accommodation facilities owned by the regional organization Lazio DiSCo as well as Campus X, a private company. Campus X accommodations, rolled out in October 2010, now consist of over 1300 bed spaces for students and researchers, as well as study rooms, a market, a restaurant, a gym, a music recording studio and many other facilities. Campus X in Tor Vergata, designed and built on the basis of the campus in
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, is at the present time the biggest accommodation facility for students in Italy, with its area. In an effort to reduce environmental pollution as well as emission of greenhouse gases, Campus X facilities rely on both thermal and photovoltaic solar panels that provide up to 70% of hot water and street lighting needed on campus.


City of Sport

The innovative City of Sport project, designed by the internationally renowned Spanish architect
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, was an integral part of the city of Rome's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics and would have hosted the volleyball, gymnastics, trampoline, and basketball finals. On February 14, 2012, the Italian Prime Minister
Mario Monti Mario Monti (; born 19 March 1943) is an Italian politician, economist and academic who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a Technocratic government (Italy), technocratic government in the wake of the European sov ...
called an end to the bid, citing uncertain costs and unknown financial benefit. The announcement came a day before the deadline for applicant cities to submit the application files. The project would have transformed the area of south-east of Rome. The two main buildings of the project the Sport Forum and Swimming Forum are symmetrical, each of them being about in area and around 75 m in height. The complex, whose construction had begun in April 2007, was to be completed in 2009 in time for the
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but is still under construction. The new university tower, located on the opposite side of the road with respect to the City of Sport project, will rise to about 90 meters, whose penultimate floor would host the new administrative office of Tor Vergata, while the top floor would host a wide lobby that would offer panoramic views. The lower floors would welcome other offices. The layer below the tower would accommodate underground parking.


Academics

The university is divided into six schools:
Economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...
;
Engineering Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...
;
Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...
;
Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...
;
Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...
,
Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...
and
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; and
Medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...
and
Surgery Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery s ...
. There are 18 departments that, combined, offer 31
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programmes and 51
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programmes. The university also offers 55 undergraduate three-year
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programmes and 7 single-cycle degree programmes. Moreover, Tor Vergata University of Rome offers 20 international degree courses taught in English: 3 Bachelor's, 15 Master's and 2 Single-cycle degree courses. The university has taken significant steps in the past years to participate in international projects and to link industries to its research. It also participates in interdisciplinary dialogue with local businesses to provide support to entrepreneurial activities and small businesses. Academic years (usually referred to as a.y. or a.a.) are typically divided into two semesters, the first starting in mid September and ending in mid January and the second starting in March and ending in mid June, with exam sessions being held between mid January and the end of February for first semester courses and between mid June and the end of July for second semester classes. Nonetheless, sometimes additional exam sessions may be held in September depending on the course and faculty. Students are asked to achieve a minimum of 60 ECTS (i.e. credits) to be considered on schedule with the course programme, which means and implies that a three-year
Bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years ...
course typically consists of 180 ECTS for the corresponding degree to be attained, while 120 ECTS are necessary for a
Master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional prac ...
. Nevertheless, additional ECTS may be achieved as well in case students wished to attend additional classes or courses. A single course usually provides either 6, 9 or 12 ECTS, depending on its duration. More specifically, 6, 9 and 12 ECTS classes consist respectively of 60, 90 and 120 hours of lecture attendance.


Faculty of Economics


Centre of Economic and International Studies (CEIS)

Founded in 1987, The Centre of Economic and International Studies (CEIS) is an internationally recognized research centre within the Faculty of Economics at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. CEIS is engaged in creating and supporting international research and higher-learning networking in the major fields of economics. CEIS hosts numerous seminars and conferences bringing together leading economists and experts in academia and government.


Reputation

In the ''2021 Best Global Universities Ranking'' by U.S. News & World Report L.P., the University of Rome Tor Vergata was ranked 243rd in the world, 106th in
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and 12th in
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. On the other hand, according to 2022 ''
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'' and ''
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'', the university was ranked respectively 494th and 301-350th. But due to the young age of the university, it is for sure important to look at international young university rankings: according to ''
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''' Under 50 2021, the University of Rome Tor Vergata is ranked 71-80th in the world among universities which are under 50 years old. Further international rankings can be found in the table on the right side of the page. Furthermore, the Faculty of Economics in Tor Vergata has been consistently ranked among the top 3 economics departments by
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newspaper's annual ranking of economic faculties in Italy and currently holds the top spot nationally and 96th worldwide. The school is particularly strong in the field of business,
financial economics Financial economics is the branch of economics characterized by a "concentration on monetary activities", in which "money of one type or another is likely to appear on ''both sides'' of a trade".William F. Sharpe"Financial Economics", in Its co ...
. In addition, Tor Vergata University of Rome was ranked, in 2020, 101-150th for Automation and Control Engineering as well as for Energy Science and Engineering, and 201-300th for Telecommunication Engineering in the world by
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(Shanghai Ranking's Academic Ranking of World Universities). Moreover, it was ranked, by the same ranking organisation still in 2020, 76-100th for Mathematical Sciences and 51-75th for Physical Sciences in the world. The university was ranked 50th in the world in Physics also by '' Best Global Universities Ranking'' by U.S. News & World Report L.P. . Tor Vergata University of Rome was also ranked, by ''
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,'' 314th in the world for Engineering and Technology and, more specifically, 201-250th in the world for Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 251-300th for Chemical Engineering. When it comes to its academic performance, Tor Vergata University of Rome was ranked 285th in the world and 9th in Italy for the a.y. 2020-21 by URAP (University Ranking by Academic Performance). In 2020, the
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ranked the university 281st in the world. Moreover, the University of Rome Tor Vergata was ranked, in 2019, 59th among the best 175 young universities in the world which are under 50 years old, for its research outputs, according to 2019
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ranking. In addition, according to the same index rankings, it was also ranked 43rd among the best 50 young universities in the world in
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. Apart from being ranked on the basis of its academic and research outcomes, Tor Vergata University of Rome has been also assessed for employability of students who graduated from the university, and for their average wage. In 2018, Tor Vergata University of Rome was ranked 8th in Italy for average wages of its graduates between 25 and 34 years of age, i.e. 5th in Italy if only public universities are taken into account. Furthermore, it was also determined to be, in 2017, the 2nd university in Central Italy for its graduate employability (i.e. 88.5%), making it comparable, when it comes to employability, to Northern Italy universities.


Research

Research is carried out in 27 departmental and inter-departmental research centers. On campus there are also other major research institutions. The new main headquarters of the
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was inaugurated in Tor Vergata on July 25, 2012. Other important national centres include the Tor Vergata research establishment of National Research Council and the
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. The close proximity and research ties with other distinguished research centers that are near campus, such as the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment (ENEA), the European Space Agency Center for Earth Observation and the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics makes Tor Vergata a unique and dynamic research environment. When it comes to its research outcomes, Tor Vergata University of Rome was ranked, in 2019, 18th in Italy and 200-300th in Europe (more specifically 300-400th for total project funding per partner and 100-200th for its total number of projects) among European academic and non-academic research institutions, according to the European Research Ranking. It was also ranked in 2014, by the same ranking institution, 31st in Europe with regard to its research diversity index.


Affiliations

In March 2019, the University of Rome Tor Vergata joined other seven European universities to form the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) Alliance. In June 2019, the
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announced that YUFE was among the 17 projects that would receive funding for a three-year pilot under the European Universities Initiative, funded through the Erasmus+ programme. The main aim of this programme is to create 'European Universities' based on cross-border alliances of higher education institutions in order to share a long-term strategy and promote European values and identity, by creating a European university campus for the purpose of promoting students' physical and virtual mobility. Hand in hand with this aim goes the YUFE Diploma Supplement Track, rolled out in November 2020, a diploma supplement that acknowledges all the activities, projects and accomplishments, such as academic courses, professional training, etc, that students are given the chance to take part in across the various YUFE universities. Tor Vergata University of Rome is, at the moment, the only university in Italy that is part of the alliance. Tor Vergata University of Rome is also part of the
Young European Research Universities Network The Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN) founded in 2015 and based in Brussels, brings together excellence and value-driven young research universities. The network's objective is to strategically represent its members in the de ...
(Yerun), that aims to create and strengthen collaboration between high-ranked young universities in Europe, as well as of the Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA).


English-taught programmes

The University of Rome Tor Vergata currently offers 20 courses taught in English.


Bachelor's degree programmes

* Business Administration and Economics (B.Sc., School of Economics) * Global Governance (B.A., School of Economics) * Engineering Sciences (B.Sc., School of Engineering)


Master's degree programmes

* Business Administration (M.Sc., School of Economics) * Economics (M.Sc., School of Economics) * European Economy and Business Law (M.Sc., School of Economics) * Finance and Banking (M.Sc., School of Economics) * Mechatronics Engineering (M.Sc., School of Engineering) * ICT and Internet Engineering (M.Sc., School of Engineering) * Chemical Nano-Engineering (M.Sc., School of Engineering) * Physical Activity and Health Promotion (M.Sc., School of Medicine and Surgery) * Biotechnology (M.Sc., School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences) * Physics - Curriculum in Astrophysics and Space Science (M.Sc., School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences) ** the University of Tor Vergata is the coordinating institution of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s DegreeProgramme in Astrophysics and Space Sciende (MASS) * Physics - Curriculum in Physics of Fundamental Interactions and Experimental Techniques (M.Sc., School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences) * Physics - Curriculum in Physics of Complex Systems and Big Data (M.Sc., School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences) * European History (M.A., School of Humanities and Philosophy) * Art History in Rome from Late Antique to the Present (M.A., School of Humanities and Philosophy) * Tourism Strategy, Cultural Heritage and Made in Italy (M.A., School of Humanities and Philosophy)


Single-cycle degree programmes

* Medicine and Surgery (School of Medicine and Surgery) * Pharmacy (School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences)


Notable faculty members and alumni

* Orazio Schillaci, the current
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, was the Rector of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, full professor of nuclear medicine and head of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the same university * Giovanni Tria, former Minister of Economy and Finance at the Italian Minister of Economy and Finances, professor of Political Economy, Dean of the School of Economics *
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, Italian Minister of Public Administration,
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, professor of Economics *
Antonio Dal Monte Antonio Dal Monte (born October 31, 1931, in Rome) is an Italian physician. He is the former Scientific Director and Head of the Department of Physiology and Biomechanics Institute of Sports Science of the Italian National Olympic Committee (C.O. ...
, physician and medical researcher, former Scientific Director and Head of the Department of Physiology and Biomechanics Institute of Sports Science of the
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(C.O.N.I.) *
Cesare G. De Michelis Cesare G. De Michelis (born 20 April 1944 in Rome) is a scholar and professor of Russian literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. Biography He is also an authority on the notorious plagiarism, hoax, and literary forgery known as ...
, professor of Russian Literature * Alessandro Ferrara, professor of Political Philosophy *
Enrico Giovannini Enrico Giovannini (born 6 June 1957) is an Italian economist, statistician and academic, member of the Club of Rome. Since February 2021, he has been serving as Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility in the Draghi Government. From ...
, former
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Director of Statistics, Professor of Economics and Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport * Sabatino Moscati, archaeologist and linguist, professor of Semitic Philology * Piero Niro, composer, classical pianist,
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in Philosophy * Mario Perniola, philosopher, professor of Aesthetics * Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Art historian, professor of Modern Art History * Alessandro Piperno, writer, professor of French literature *
Lucio Russo Lucio Russo (born 22 November 1944) is an Italian physicist, mathematician and historian of science. Born in Venice, he teaches at the Mathematics Department of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Among his main areas of interest are Gibbs m ...
, physicist, mathematician and historian of Science, professor of Probability Calculus * René Schoof, mathematician who published the homonymous algorithm (
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), professor of Mathematics * Pietro Trifone, linguist, professor of history of the Italian language * Gustavo Piga, professor of Economics *
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio (born 13 March 1959) is an Italian politician, lawyer and journalist. He served as Minister of Agriculture in the second cabinet of Giuliano Amato and as Minister of Environment in the second cabinet of Romano Prodi. Bor ...
, former Italian Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea and former Member of the
Italian Parliament The Italian Parliament () is the national parliament of the Italy, Italian Republic. It is the representative body of Italian citizens and is the successor to the Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1848–1861), the Parliament of the Kingd ...
* Domenicangela Lina Unali, professor of English and American literature, novelist, poet, literary critic * Stefano Semplici, philosopher, professor of Moral Philosophy and Social Ethics, former president of the UNESCO Bioethics Committee


References


External links


University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Website

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