University of Milan

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The University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano, Latin: Universitas Studiorum Mediolanensis), officially abbreviated as UniMi, or colloquially referred to as La Statale ("the State university"), is a public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with 64,878 students and a permanent teaching and research staff of 2,566 (4, 653 including all researchers) as of 2025. The University of Milan has ten schools and offers 140 undergraduate and graduate degree programmes, 32 doctoral schools and 65+ specialization schools. The university's research and teaching activities have grown over the years and have received important international recognitions. The university is especially well known for its excellence in medical research and is often ranked as 1st in Italy in the field of Medicine, being also ranked among the top medical schools in the world. The University of Milan is one of the twelve founding members (2002) and the only Italian member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), an elite group of 24 research-intensive European universities, as of 2026. The university has been frequented by many notable alumni, including Enrico Bombieri (Fields Medal recipient, 1974), Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel laureate in Physics, 2002), Marco Bersanelli (Gruber Prize in Cosmology recipient, 2006), Patrizia Caraveo (Br

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