Polytechnic University of Milan

Overview

Politecnico di Milano

Politecnico di Milano is a public technical university located in Milan, Italy. It was established in 1863 and is currently the largest state-supported technical university in Italy. The university's course offerings such as architecture and built environment, art and design, and engineering (civil and structural) are among the top ranks in their respective fields.

Politecnico di Milano Key Statistics

The university comprises four schools and 12 departments. These schools are the School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering, The School of Design, The School of Civil, Environmental and Land Management Engineering, and The School of Industrial and Information Engineering.

The university offers 27 undergraduate programs, 43 postgraduate programs, and 19 doctorate programs. In addition to these, the university is also offering programs in collaboration with other universities (one undergraduate and four postgraduate programs).

Politecnico di Milano has approximately 42,000 students, 65% of whom are undergraduate students. It has two main campuses located in Milan (Milano Leonardo and Milano Bovisa) and seven satellite campuses. These campuses employ approximately 2,600 academic and administrative staff.

Other Politecnico di Milano key statistics include its various institutional affiliations such as with the European University Association, Partnership of a European Group of Aeronautics and Space UniversitieS, and Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies. Moreover, the university has a library system composed of four central libraries. It also has department libraries that hold approximately 470,000 records. Furthermore, the university has its own publishing trademark named “Polipress” and its own free periodical called “Politecnico”. In addition, it produced the only Italian Nobel laureate for Chemistry, Giulio Natta, way back in 1963.

Politecnico di Milano Research

Nationally, the university ranks best in the field of engineering. Consequently, its top fields of research are computer science, materials science, and engineering.

Politecnico di Milano research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Nature Communications, and Physical Review Letters. Its researchers have presented their works in major scholarly conferences such as SMC: Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IGRASS: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, and WWW: The Web Conference.

The most cited Politecnico di Milano research publication is Dorigo et al.'s (1996) "Ant system: Optimization by a colony of cooperating agents," which was published in the journal Systems, Man and Cybernetics with 15,891 citations. Second to this is the publication of Ferreti et al. (2001) on "Permanent scatterers in SAR interferometry," in the journal IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing with 4,723 citations. The third most cited article of the university is the work done by Koren et al. (1999) "Reconfigurable manufacturing systems," in the journal CIRP Annals with 2,606 citations.

Politecnico di Milano research figures also include about 230 research laboratories, four large infrastructure laboratories, 32 interdepartmental laboratories, and 54 instrumental laboratories housing the university equipment. It has 428 projects financed within Horizon 2020.

Under the H2020 program of the European Union/European Commission, Polytechnic University of Milan was awarded a total of €125.7 million. The university has also produced 2,084 patents so far.