University of Padova

ABOUT

Overview

The University of Padua was established in 1222, after a group of students and teachers decided to come here from Bologna. They set up a free body of scholars, who were grouped according to their place of origin into nationes, in which students approved statutes, elected the rettore (rector, or chancellor) and chose their teachers, who were paid with money the students collected. Defending freedom of thought in study and teaching became a distinctive feature which today lives on in the University motto: Universa Universis Patavina Libertas.The introduction of empirical and experimental methods together with the teaching of theory marked the dawn of a golden age.

AT A GLANCE

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ACADEMICS

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2 programmes at UOP

CAMPUS LIFE

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