Dear Students,welcome to the University of Parma.This website will be your most valuable ally in getting to know all the services and facilities available at our university. We hope you will consider our website as one of the most useful tools our academic community can offer to make your university career as successful as possible.Being aware of what is available will help you throughout your chosen course of studies and enhance your future job prospects.After more than a thousand years of history, the University of Parma is nowadays a strategic part of a lively city, full of cultural life and particularly welcoming towards students and their diverse needs.The size of this University, neither too large nor too small (about 25,000 students, with more than 5,000 graduates per year and 1,700 lecturers and administrative employees), together with Parma lifestyle attracts a large number of students from all over Italy.More than two-thirds of enrolled students come from outside Parma and its province, which places the University of Parma among the top few nationwide for its capacity to attract non-resident students.Our course catalogue offers 39 First Cycle Degree courses, 41 Second Cycle Degree courses (5 of which held entirely in English) and 6 Single Cycle Degree courses.Several Departments and centres, as well as student services and sport facilities are located in a unique 77-hectare area, the Campus - one of the few university campuses in Italy.The University of Parma is one of the most well known universities in Europe, thanks to its focus on excellence in teaching, research, innovation, for its capacity of meeting job market demands and for the facilities it offers (on-line communication services, information and career counselling services, computer laboratories and Internet access points, libraries, tailored services for disabled students, language courses, foreign exchange programmes and many opportunities for practising sports).Research is a key feature of the University of Parma. We are proud of our research endeavours, exemplified by the results achieved by our research teams, our many scientific publications in the most renowned international journals and numerous group collaborations with foreign partner universities.The University of Parma covers different research areas: from the food industry to biotechnology, from pharmaceutical innovation to experimental medicine, as well as law, business and art.By reading these web pages, you will discover our commitment to our students and their career and the importance we attach to quality teaching, innovation and research.We want our students to become responsible citizens in a society that needs to respond to the increasing European and international challenges of our times.This website serves to present all the opportunities that the University and the city of Parma have to offer.Enjoy our website – and the snapshot it gives of life at the University of Parma.A warm welcome
