The University of Bologna has very ancient origins: founded in 1088 it is indicated as the first University in the Western world. It has over 80,000 students, 219 degree courses, of which over 70 ...

Another school often recognized for its lengthy existence is the University of Bologna in Italy, which has been cited as the oldest continually operating university by several sources. The ...

Founded in 1088, the University of Bologna—widely considered the oldest university in continuous operation—was governed not by Church or crown, but by its students and professors, who insisted ...

A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a series of correlations between the designs engraved on these cylinders, dating back around six thousand years, and some of the ...

Federica Bianco obtained a bachelor's in Astronomy from the University of Bologna in 2003, a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010; she was a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellow at ...

Over the years, the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, the oldest university in the Western world, has paved the way for innovation thanks to an increasingly rich programme catalogue, ...