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The University of Torino is now 600 years old. It was established at the beginning of the XV century by Prince Ludovico of Savoia-Acaja and was officially recognized by Pope Benedetto XIII in 1404. This date, other than making the University one of the oldest Italian institutes, places it among the few of European Universities to boast a medieval origin.
The University has been closely involved in Torino’s fate over all these centuries, sharing adversities and growth, forming the State ruling class and always being open to exchange with European culture.
In the early years of the fifteenth century, it expanded to giving Doctorate courses in Law, Theology, Medicine and Art, it had a seat in the city center (between Via Garibaldi and Via San Francesco), and has had prestigious lecturers and students (the most famous being Erasmus of Rotterdam, who graduated at Torino on 4th September 1506). Except for a period of crisis during the French occupation in the mid-sixteenth century, and other difficulties a century later due to wars and plagues, the University continued to grow, particularly during the Dukedoms of Emanuele Filiberto, Carlo Emanuele I and Vittorio Amedeo II. We owe the building of the present seat in Via Po (1721), the opening of the Province Colleges, and an important reform of University statutes to these people. After the French revolution and Napoleon (who had chosen to make Torino the second University of the empire after Paris), the University of Torino added to its cultural organization and modern education during the nineteenth century by creating new faculties and building structures for teaching and research. Moreover, it was one of the main centers of renewal of national awareness and contact with Europe for both humanistic and scientific cultures. For example, Augustin Cauchy, one of the world's greatest mathematicians came to teach Physics here in 1832. Shortly after, the Science Faculty was instated with teachers such as Avogadro, Plana, Defilippi, Sobrero, Menabrea, Peano.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the University branched out and Galileo Ferraris set up the basis of the Polytechnic. Jakob Moleschott, Guido Bizzozero, Carlo Forlanini, Edoardo Barroncito were great nineteenth century clinicians in the Faculty of Medicine, and later Cesare Lombroso also joined. The Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini also came from this same medical school. In the last century, the Faculty of Arts had teachers such as Graf, Pareyson, Abbagnano, and Mila. Luigi Einaudi and Norberto Bobbio were teachers in Law and many leaders in of the political and social Italian scenes in the twentieth century such as Gramsci and Gobetti, Togliatti and Bontempelli came from The University of Torino.
Today the University of Turin is among those with the largest number of teachers and students, among the best for international relationships and scientific production, and research quality and completeness of courses.
The University has been closely involved in Torino’s fate over all these centuries, sharing adversities and growth, forming the State ruling class and always being open to exchange with European culture.
In the early years of the fifteenth century, it expanded to giving Doctorate courses in Law, Theology, Medicine and Art, it had a seat in the city center (between Via Garibaldi and Via San Francesco), and has had prestigious lecturers and students (the most famous being Erasmus of Rotterdam, who graduated at Torino on 4th September 1506). Except for a period of crisis during the French occupation in the mid-sixteenth century, and other difficulties a century later due to wars and plagues, the University continued to grow, particularly during the Dukedoms of Emanuele Filiberto, Carlo Emanuele I and Vittorio Amedeo II. We owe the building of the present seat in Via Po (1721), the opening of the Province Colleges, and an important reform of University statutes to these people. After the French revolution and Napoleon (who had chosen to make Torino the second University of the empire after Paris), the University of Torino added to its cultural organization and modern education during the nineteenth century by creating new faculties and building structures for teaching and research. Moreover, it was one of the main centers of renewal of national awareness and contact with Europe for both humanistic and scientific cultures. For example, Augustin Cauchy, one of the world's greatest mathematicians came to teach Physics here in 1832. Shortly after, the Science Faculty was instated with teachers such as Avogadro, Plana, Defilippi, Sobrero, Menabrea, Peano.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the University branched out and Galileo Ferraris set up the basis of the Polytechnic. Jakob Moleschott, Guido Bizzozero, Carlo Forlanini, Edoardo Barroncito were great nineteenth century clinicians in the Faculty of Medicine, and later Cesare Lombroso also joined. The Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini also came from this same medical school. In the last century, the Faculty of Arts had teachers such as Graf, Pareyson, Abbagnano, and Mila. Luigi Einaudi and Norberto Bobbio were teachers in Law and many leaders in of the political and social Italian scenes in the twentieth century such as Gramsci and Gobetti, Togliatti and Bontempelli came from The University of Torino.
Today the University of Turin is among those with the largest number of teachers and students, among the best for international relationships and scientific production, and research quality and completeness of courses.
Faculty
| Number of Faculty Staff | Headcount: 3,061 |  |
| Total number of academic faculty staff who are responsible for planning, directing and undertaking teaching only, research only or both teaching and research. Please include: vice-chancellors, deputy vice-chancellors, principals, professors, heads of school, associate professors, principal lecturers and tutors. Please exclude research assistants*, PhD students who contribute to teaching, and exchange scholars or visiting professors who are members of another university. *FAQ: How is research assistant defined? | ||
| Number of International Faculty Staff | Headcount: 119 | |
| Number of academic faculty staff who are of foreign nationality. The term ‘international’ is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even if from another EU state. In Hong Kong, this includes professors from Mainland China. Inclusion and exclusion mirrors those for academic faculty staff. | ||
Graduate / Postgraduate Information
| Number of Graduate / Postgraduate Students | Headcount: 6,522 | |
| Students pursuing a higher-level degree (Master and Doctorate), including both taught and research postgraduates (e.g. PhD students) | ||
Students
| Total Students | Headcount: 66,841 | |
| Total number of students. | ||
| Total International Students | Headcount: 1,416 | |
| Number of students who are foreign nationals. The term ‘international’ is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states. In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China. | ||
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