UniTrento again ranks among the best Italian universities. After conquering the first position in the Sole 24 ore ranking published in June, Censis confirms the quality of UniTrento, in the ranking drafted for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, in the “Grande guida all’Università 2014-2015”: Trento ranks 2nd among medium-sized universities, i.e. with 10 to 20,000 enrolled students.
UniTrento obtained excellent scores regarding the evaluation of teaching and research activities, in the individual scientific areas.
The University
UniTrento ranks 2nd among medium-sized universities (10 to 20,000 enrolled students), with a score of 97.8, thus moving two positions upwards in comparison with last year.
The University mark is the mean value of the evaluation of:
- services: 103
- financial means for grants/scholarships for students: 90
- facilities 92
- web: 98
- internationalization: 106
In absolute terms the score of the University of Trento is amongst the highest in the overall ranking: it equals the best Italian mega university (with over 40,000 enrolled students) and sweeping past the best Italian polytechnic university and the best large university (with 20 to 40,000 enrolled students) and small university (up to 10,000 students).
Study programmes
The courses offered by the Department of Economics and Management rank 1st again.
2 position for the courses of the Department of Physics, the Computer science course of the Department of Computer engineering and Information science, the courses of the Department of Mathematics.
The course of Science and techniques of cognitive psychology of the Department of Psychology and Cognitive science makes a jump forward, from the 12th to the 3rd position.
Overall good results were obtained by the other courses as well.
Fourth position for the five-year degree in Law, the courses of the Department of Sociology and Social Research and for the course of Communication interfaces and technologies of the Department of Psychology and Cognitive science.
7th position for the course in Modern languages of the Department of Humanities.
8th position for the five-year course in Architecture and building engineering of the Department of Civil, environmental and mechanic engineering, in its category.
The evaluation on the study programmes was performed on the individual disciplinary sectors, using the indicators of “university career development” (i.e. the drop-out rate and the matching of attended courses, obtained credits, enrollments and graduates) and of “international relationships” (with reference to the ratio of Erasmus students, the number of universities which hosted UniTrento students and the percentage of foreign students on the total number of enrolled students).
Research
The Guida evaluates research with reference to the 14 CUN areas, measuring both the PRIN Programme financing and the funding in the framework of the 7th European Framework Resarch Programme. Finally the scientific productivity is evaluated on the basis of Google Scholar data.
UniTrento conquers the 1st position in area 8 - Civil engineering and architecture - in area 9 - Industrial engineering and Information engineering - and in area 11 - Historical science, philosophy, education science and psychology.
2nd position in area 1 - Mathematics and computer science and in area 12, Law and legal science.
4th position in area 10 - Science of antique times, philology-literature and history-harts; 8th position in area 13 - Economics and statistics and in area 14 - Political and social science.
More information is available in the Press release and on the webpage Censis/La Repubblica 2014"