Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Latin: Universitas Catholica Sacri Cordis Jesu
Motto In the heart of reality
Established 7 December 1921
Type Private
Rector Prof. Lorenzo Ornaghi
Admin. staff 4,160
Students 42,000
Location Milano, Italy
Campus Urban
Sports teams CUS Milano
Colors Blue and gold         
Affiliations FIUC
FUCE
ISEP
INU
EUCEN
EAIE
Consorzio Milano Ricerche
IPBS
EFMD
Website unicattolica.it
Università Cattolica logo

The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) is a privately-owned Catholic university founded in 1921. Its main campus is located in Milan, Italy with satellite campuses in Brescia, Piacenza, Cremona, Rome, and Campobasso. The UCSC is the biggest private university in Europe[1] and the biggest and one of the most distinguished Catholic universities in the world.[2]

The University is organized into 14 faculties and 7 postgraduate schools. Cattolica provides undergraduate courses (BSc, which corresponds to italian Laurea Triennale), graduate courses (MSc, which corresponds to Laurea Magistrale, and specializing master) and PhD programs (in Italian are called Dottorati di ricerca). Degrees are offered both in Italian and in English.

UCSC has been granted five stars by QS Stars, a global university rating system, in the following fields: employability, teaching, infrastructure and engagement.[3]

Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic serves as the teaching hospital for the medical school of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and owes its name to the university founder, the Franciscan friar, physician and psychologist Agostino Gemelli.


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[edit] History

In 1919 Father Agostino Gemelli, Ludovico Necchi, Francesco Olgiati, Armida Barelli, and Ernesto Lombardo, founded the university. In 1920, after overcoming a number of obstacles and difficulties, the Istituto Giuseppe Toniolo di Studi Superiori was founded (The Institution is the founder as well as the warrantor for the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore). On June 24 of that year the Istituto was legally recognized with a Decree signed by the Minister of Education, Benedetto Croce; at the same time, the Pope Benedict XV officially recognized the University's ecclesiastical status.

Milan Campus

On December 7, 1921, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore was officially inaugurated with a special mass celebrated by Father Gemelli, in the presence of Achille Ratti, the Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, who three months later was elected as Pope Pius XI. The first campus was located in the Palazzo del Canonica, in via Sant'Agnese 2. In October 1930 it was moved to the ancient St. Ambrose Monastery, where the main campus remains today. 68 students enrolled in the university's two available programs, philosophy and social sciences, in 1921. As of 2011, 14 programs were offered to over 40,000 students distributed over the Milan, Rome, Brescia, Piacenza and Campobasso campuses.

In 1924, following legal recognition from the Italian state allowing the awarding of legally-recognized degrees (the charter of the Università Cattolica was approved by Royal Decree on October 2, 1924, and published on October 31 on the Gazzetta Ufficiale), the Humanities and Law Programs were inaugurated. In 1923 the Istituto Superiore di Magistero was opened, and in 1936 became an independent program, later evolving to become, in 1996, the College of Education Sciences.

Inner yard

In 1926 the Political and Economical Sciences Department became independent from the College of Law and, in 1931, became the College of Political, Economical, and Business Sciences which awarded, until 1947, the university's business degrees as well. In 1936 the College of Political Science became independent. The work and efforts of the Università Cattolica continued throughout the post-war period with new campuses and programs opening. The College of Economics, officially opened in 1947, offered night classes. On October 30, in the presence of Italian President Luigi Einaudi, the first stone of the Piacenza campus was laid, with the official opening of the College of Agriculture Sciences taking place in November 1952.

On August 4, 1958, the official decree for the opening of a Medical School in Rome, which had been advocated by Father Gemelli, was approved. Enormous difficulties had made this long and complicated, and it was not until the end of the 1950s that the Biological Institutes and the university Polyclinic, named after Fr Gemelli were built in Rome. Construction began in 1959; in 1961 Pope John XXIII opened the Medical School, with the first medical doctors graduating in 1967. The school now offers both medical and dentistry programs.

In 1956 the Brescia campus of the Università Cattolica was inaugurated with the opening of the College of Teaching and Education. In 1971, thanks to the initiative of important figures in the mathematical field, the College of Mathematics, Physics, and Natural Sciences was opened. During the 1990s other colleges were opened in Milan: the College of Banking, Finance, and Insurance Sciences (1990); the College of Foreign Languages and Literature (today the College of Linguistics) and Foreign Literature (1991); and the College of Psychology (1999). In 1997 in Piacenza the College of Economics, once part of the Milan curriculum, opened independently, and the College of Law in 1995.

In 2000 thirteen Cultural Centres were opened across Italy. In these Centers, through advanced satellite technology, distance-learning courses have been activated in collaboration with the major university campuses. During the 2001-2002 academic year the new College of Sociology, the fourteenth college of the Università Cattolica, was opened in Milan.

[edit] Rectors

[edit] Organization

[edit] Faculties

The UCSC offers a wide range of degrees in 14 schools (called "faculties").

  • Faculty of Agriculture, Piacenza-Cremona
  • Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
  • Faculty of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Economics, Piacenza-Cremona
  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Law, Piacenza-Cremona
  • Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences, Brescia
  • Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Rome
  • Faculty of Language Sciences and Foreign Literature
  • Faculty of Political Sciences
  • Faculty of Psychology
  • Faculty of Sociology

[edit] Postgraduate Schools

Postgraduate Schools (Alte Scuole) are centers of excellence in research and teaching.

[edit] Campus

UCSC Great Hall

The headquarters of largo Gemelli (Milan) is the main building of the university because there are the rectorate and the administrative direction. It is situated in central Milan in the Benedictine monastery near Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio. The restructuring of the Benedictine monastery by Giovanni Muzio in collaboration with the engineer Pier Fausto Barelli began in 1929 and finished twenty years later.

Apart from its major Milan campus, Cattolica has other campuses in Brescia, Piacenza, Cremona, Rome and Campobasso.

[edit] Academics

[edit] Research

Lesson at UCSC

The research in UCSC is structured in 22 Departments, 54 Institutes, 70 Research centers and 4 Atheneum centers.[4]

[edit] Libraries

The UCSC Library System works with numerous national and international bodies: IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, AIB - Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, AIDA - Associazione Italiana per la Documentazione Avanzata, NDLTD - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, LIBER - Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche, LOCKSS - Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe, CLOCKSS - Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe, NEREUS e INNOVATIVE.

[edit] Rankings & Internationalization

The Cattolica, according to a study of International Student Barometer survey of a sample of 65 universities in Europe, is the second and fourth position at the international level between "the universities recommended by foreign students.[5]

UCSC is a part of a series of international networks including: LLP - Erasmus Network, UCSC International Bilateral Agreements, ISEP Network, International Network of Universities (INU), Fédération des Universités Catholiques Européenes (FUCE), Fédération Internationale des Universités Catholiques (FIUC), IPBS - The International Partnership of Business Schools e Cooperation Projects.[6]

[edit] Media

The publishing house of UCSC is Vita e Pensiero, which was founded in 1918. The owner is the Giuseppe Toniolo Institute of Higher Education.

There are various publications and magazines published in the UCSC. Vita e Pensiero, founded in 1914 by Agostino Gemelli, becomes the official magazine of the Cattolica since its inception. Presenza, bimonthly UCSC, was founded in 1969. This magazine is the UCSC's house organ and it aims to examine topical issues and latest news of the University. The magazine is divided into two main blocks. In the first part, there are services and insights into current affairs, in the second part, the space is devoted to news from the headquarters of Cattolica (Milan, Brescia, Piacenza-Cremona, Roma and Campobasso). The magazine is distributed free to faculty, students, graduates and opinion makers at the national level.

[edit] Code of ethics

On 1 November 2011 was introduced the Code of Ethics. This document contains the values ​​that characterize the Cattolica and the rules of conduct.[7]

[edit] Student life

[edit] Residential colleges

Inside the UCSC campus there are some colleges:

  • Augustinianum College (Milan)
  • Marianum College (Milan)
  • Ludovicianum College (Milan)
  • Paolo VI College (Milan)
  • Sant'Isidoro College (Piacenza)
  • Ker Maria College (Rome)
  • San Damiano College (Rome)
  • Nuovo Joanneum College (Rome)
  • San Luca - Armida Barelli College (Rome)

A short distance from the university there are other colleges located in urban: Orsoline (Milan), San Francesco (Milan), Stimmatine (Milan), Sacro Cuore Buonarroti (Milan), Franciscanum (Brescia), Sacro Cuore (Brescia), San Giorgio (Brescia), Villa Pace (Brescia), Orsoline (Piacenza), Capitanio (Rome), Renzi (Rome), Romitello (Rome), Sacra Famiglia (Rome).

[edit] Student associations

[edit] Milan Campus

  • Aisec
  • Ateneo Studenti
  • Athenaeum
  • Azione Universitaria - Movimento della Libertà
  • Boulevart
  • Capramagra
  • Centocanti
  • Circolo Tocqueville
  • Comunicando
  • Comunità Antagonista Padana
  • C.U.I.B. Comitato Universitario Iniziative Di Base
  • Elsa - The European Law Students' Association
  • Exchange Students And Erasmus Guide
  • Formica democratica
  • Giovani per EXPO 2015 Cattolica
  • Gruppo Co-Raggio
  • F.U.C.I. Gruppo "Giuseppe Lazzati"
  • Il Cavallo Rosso
  • Il Circolo Università Cattolica
  • Il Fatto
  • Labcattolica
  • Morozzo della Rocca
  • Movimento Universitario Padano
  • Movit - Movimento per la Vita
  • Presenza studentesca Africana Dell'Università Cattolica
  • Studenti Amici UC
  • Studenti per le Libertà
  • U.L.D. - Studenti di sinistra

[edit] Brescia Campus

  • Ateneo Studenti
  • CUT La Stanza
  • Dafne
  • Elea
  • F.U.C.I. - Gruppo di Brescia
  • L'Idea
  • Pier Giorgio Frassati
  • UCID Giovani Brescia

[edit] Rome Campus

  • Ateneo Studenti
  • ECO - EsserCi Ora
  • F.U.C.I.
  • Gli amici di Bacco
  • Gruppo Phos-Laboratorio della fede
  • I Soliti Ignoti
  • Il Giornalone
  • Know How
  • MoVit - Movimento per la Vita
  • Sognatori in cantiere
  • Sorrisi Gemelli
  • Studenti Protagonisti
  • U.C.S.C. Erasmus Appointment

[edit] Piacenza-Cremona Campus

  • ASUP - Associazione sportiva universitaria europea
  • Ateneo Studenti
  • Athenaeum
  • Dialogo e rinnovamento
  • F.U.C.I. UCSC Piacenza
  • Giovani Europei
  • Movimento Universitario Padano
  • SMINT
  • RINIA
  • Triskele Di Azione Universitaria

[edit] Sports

The University hosted the IFIUS 2009 World Interuniversity Games in October.

[edit] Traditions

Virgins garden

It is said that those who pass through one of two inner yard of Milan campus not graduate in UCSC. But after earning his degree, the graduate of the Cattolica is usually to make a round of racing in one of the cloisters.

In the Milan campus there is a garden (the garden of St. Catherine of Alexandria) which access is allowed only for the girl students. For this reason it is nicknamed "the Virgins Garden".

[edit] Ludovico Necchi Association

Ludovico Necchi Association was founded in Milan in 1930 and it collects all the graduates in the various professional fields of the UCSC. Agostino Gemelli award is a prize awarded by Ludovico Necchi Association, which consists of a medal and a diploma. The prize is awarded annually to the best graduate of each school.

[edit] Notable alumni (a) and Professors (p)

[edit] Economy and Finance

Giovanni Bazoli was professor at UCSC. He is chairman of the supervisory board of Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo and chairman of financial company Mittel.

[edit] Journalism

[edit] Intellectuals

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro graduated in Law from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He was the ninth President of the Italian Republic from 1992 to 1999.

[edit] Politics

[edit] Medicine & Science

Luigi Pasinetti is an Italian economist of the Post-Keynesians school.

[edit] Other

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.unicattolica.it/3282.html
  2. ^ http://www.unicatt.it/inaugurazione/2003/pdf/D1Rettore.pdf
  3. ^ http://www.topuniversities.com/qsstars/italy
  4. ^ http://www.unicattolica.it/1729.html
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ [2]
  7. ^ http://www.unicattolica.it/Codice_etico.pdf

[edit] External links

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