Sapienza University of Rome

Overview

Sapienza University of Rome

The Sapienza University of Rome (the University of Rome or Sapienza) is a public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is formally known as Università Degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza.’ The University of Rome is one of the oldest European universities in history and one of the largest in terms of enrollment. Sapienza is ranked amongst the top universities worldwide.

Sapienza University of Rome Key Statistics

The university comprises 11 faculties, including the Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and the Faculty of Political Science, Sociology, and Communication Science. It offers 280 bachelor's and master's degree programs, 80 Ph.D. programs, 200 advanced professional courses, and 80 specialization schools.

Sapienza has a student population of approximately 115,375. It employs around 3,300 professors, 2,600 adjunct professors, 1,600 administrative staff, and 2,200 other employees. The university’s main campus is the Città Universitaria (University City). Its other campuses are spread across Rome.

The library system of Sapienza University includes 50 libraries organized in 120 branches. They house a collection of 2.7 million items such as books, journals, movies, maps, printed music, etc. as well as 500,000 e-books, 44,000 e-journals, and about 170 databases, which are also accessible off-campus.

Other Sapienza University of Rome key statistics include its 18 museums, two university hospitals, and one teaching hospital.

Sapienza University of Rome Research

The university is a research-intensive institution of higher learning, with substantial annual research funding. In 2020, its research funding was at € 15,562,014.

The university's top three research fields are medicine, physics, and computer science. Its researchers have published in publications like the Lancet, Physical Review Letters, and European Physical Journal C. Its researchers had been invited to attend and/or present papers at international conferences such as the Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, and the International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

The most cited publication from Sapienza University of Rome research is Aad et al. ‘s (2012) “Observation of a new particle in the search for the standard model Higgs Boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC,” published in Physics Letters B. It has received a total of 19,705 citations to date. The second most cited paper is Aad et al.’s book “The ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider,” published in 2020. It has received a total of 17,967 citations. The university’s third most cited paper is Ade et al.’s “Planck 2015 results - XIII. Cosmological parameters,” published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. It has been cited by papers, articles, and other publications around 17,526 times so far.

The research centers include the Cyber I​intelligence and Information Security Research Center, Research Center of the Applied Sciences for the Protection of the Environment and Cultural Heritage, Aerospace Research Center, Research Center for Transport and Logistics, and the Research Center for Nanotechnologies Applied to Engineering.