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Sacro Cuore Catholic University of Milan
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
TypePrivate
Established1921
RectorProf. Lorenzo Ornaghi
Students42,000
Location
Milano
,
Italy
Sports teamsCUS Milano
Websitewww.unicatt.it/

The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italian for "Catholic University of the Sacred Heart") is a prestigious and leading university founded in 1921. Its main campus is located in Milan, Italy with satellite campuses in Brescia, Piacenza, Cremona, Rome, and Campobasso. The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is the biggest private university in Europe[citation needed] and the biggest Catholic university in the world.[1].

History

In 1919, Father Agostino Gemelli, Ludovico Necchi, Francesco Olgiati, Armida Barelli, and Ernesto Lombardo, extremely important cultural and religious figures, brought to fruition their plan of founding, within a short period of time, a catholic university which would play a fundamental role in the growth and enrichment of Italian culture. 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 same 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, thus setting a "victorious milestone for the catholic movement, or rather, for the entire Italian religious community".

On December 7, 1921, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore was officially inaugurated with a special mass celebrated by Father Agostino Gemelli, in the presence of Achille Ratti, the Milan Cardinal and Archbishop at the time, who three months later was elected as Pope Pio 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 S. Ambrose Monastery, where the main campus remains today. The year 1921 saw the enrollment of 68 students in the university's two available programs, Philosophy and Social Sciences. Today, 14 programs are home to over 40,000 students distributed throughout the Milan, Rome, Brescia, Piacenza and Campobasso campuses.

The aforementioned numbers clearly mark the rich and articulate growth of the university. 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 the 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
Inner yard 2

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 universities Business degrees as well. In 1936, the College of Political Science became independent. The work and efforts of the Università Cattolica continued intensely throughout the post-war period with new campuses and programs opening. The College of Economics, officially opened in 1947, offered the possibility of night classes. On October 30, in the presence of Italian President Luigi Einaudi, the first stone of the Piacenza campus was set, 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 was approved - a dream come true for Father Agostino Gemelli who had himself graduated in Medicine from the University of Pavia. Enormous difficulties made the realization of this dream long and complicated, and it was not until the end of the 1950s that the Biological Institutes and the university Polyclinic were finally built in Rome, the latter bearing the name of Father Gemelli. Construction began in 1959, and in 1961 Pope John XXIII solemnized the birth of the Medical School, with the first medical doctors graduating in 1967. The school now offers both medical and dentistry programs.

In the meantime in 1956, the Brescia campus of the Università Cattolica was inaugurated with the opening of the College of Teaching and Education, designed to integrate into the long pedagogical tradition in the city of Brescia. 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 90's, other colleges are opened in Milan, such as 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, the College of Economics, once part of the Milan curriculum, opens independently in Piacenza. The same happens in 2000 with the College of Law, active in Piacenza since 1995.

The year 2000 saw the opening of thirteen Cultural Centres across the Italian territory. In these Centers, through advanced satellite technology, distance-learning courses have been activated in collaboration with the major university campuses. Moreover, the Cultural Centers promote territorial research, organize multi-level learning experiences, and organize continuing education initiatives. During the 2001-2002 Academic year, the new College of Sociology was opened in Milan, thus becoming the fourteenth college of the Università Cattolica. The Università del Sacro Cuore, faithful to its promises, is now a reality that has continually evolved throughout the presidencies of Agostino Gemelli, Francesco Vito, Ezio Franceschini, Giuseppe Lazzati, Adriano Bausola, Sergio Zaninelli e Lorenzo Ornaghi.

Sports

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

Organization

These are the 14 faculties in which the university is divided into:

Notable alumni (a) and Professors (p)

Economy and Finance

Journalism

Intellectuals

Politics

Other

See also

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.unicatt.it/inaugurazione/2003/pdf/D1Rettore.pdf

External links

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