University in Apulia, Italy
University of Bari Aldo Moro|
 University of Bari Aldo Moro campus |
| Latin: Universitatis Barensis |
| Motto | Et lucem sed aliam reddit |
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1925 |
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| Rector | Stefano Bronzini |
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| Students | 49,000 |
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| Location | , |
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| Campus | Urban |
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| Sports teams | CUS Bari |
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| Affiliations | UNIMED, GUIDE |
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| Website | www.uniba.it |
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The University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italian: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro) is a state-supported higher education institution founded in 1925 in Bari, Apulia, in Southern Italy. The university has a student population of around 60,000.[1]
A recent name change refers to the statesman Aldo Moro (1916–1978), a student of law there until 1939 who then served as ordinary professor of philosophy of Law and Colonial Policy (1941) and of Criminal Law (1942).
Organization
The University of Bari is divided into various faculties. Each faculty has its own set of departments that focus on the arts sciences, mathematics, social sciences, literature, medicine, law, and education. These are the 13 faculties in which the university is divided into:
The university offers various courses for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students. Aside from teaching, the university is also focused on scientific research at the doctorate level. The University of Bari research centres are highly-interactive, having connections among different departments, universities, and other research centres.
Rankings
The university has been awarded the following ranking positions:[2]
The university is one of the 48 Italian higher education institutions in the CWUR list of the top 1000 universities in the world for 2016. Moreover, it has been ranked between 151st and 200th in the world for Physics by Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) - Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2015).[8]
