University

1997 Year of foundation

4 Teaching languages (English, German, Italian and Ladin)

5 Faculties

8 Competence centres

3 Campuses

31% Tenured professors and researchers of international origin

13.4% of students of international origin (national average 4.3%)

108,468,684 budget 2023

85,168,147 from the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano (78.52%)
19,463,804 externally funded and other sources (17.94%)
3,836,733 tuition fees (3.54%)

526 recognition procedures for foreign qualifications in 2022
237 cloudbooks for mobile classrooms and for personal loan
30 Macs available for students
1 of IT-services in the Cloud
44 technical and design workshops
2 laboratories
833 local grants awarded to students in 2022
10 mailboxes in Office365
2005 year of the ISO27001 certification
2005 year of the ISO9001 certification (for ICT)

6 students associations

1 BITZ unibz fablab

University Rankings

Censis
In 2023, for the seventh year in a row, we ranked first among the small non-state universities, and also achieved the highest average score.

International and National Rankings
In national rankings, our university reaches top positions every year. In 2023, for the seventh consecutive year, the Italian research centre for social studies Censis has ranked our university as number one among smaller private universities (less than 5,000 students). We rank high in international rankings too, especially under the categories "internationalisation", "student satisfaction" and "citations".

THE World University Rankings
In the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed unibz in the 401- 500 range out of nearly 1,799 institutions worldwide. Our strongest areas were "Citations" with a score of 83.3, placing us in the top 300, and "International Outlook" with a score of 74.2, also in the top 300. In Italy, we are ranked 19th out of the 56 universities included in the ranking. In the Small University Rankings 2023, we are ranked 21st.

QS World University Rankings
In 2023, unibz entered the QS World University Rankings again, securing a position in the 641– 650 range out of the 5,000 universities surveyed. It ranks among the top 220 in the metric "International Faculty Ratio".

Faculty Rankings

Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences

Times Higher Education Subject Ranking 2023: among the top 500 worldwide (subject: life sciences)

Faculty of Design and Art

CENSIS 2023: 1st place for the bachelor programme and first place for the master programme in its respective disciplinary field among Italian non-state funded universities.

Faculty of Economics and Management

Times Higher Education Subject Ranking 2023: 201-250 worldwide (subject: Business & Economics)
CENSIS 2023: 1st place among Italian small non-state funded universities; Economics and management subject area: 2nd place for teaching (Bachelor programs) among Italian non-state funded universities
Research Quality Evaluation 2015-2019 by the National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR): 2nd place (out of 72) for Management and 6th place (out of 71) for Economics at national

Faculty of Education

CENSIS 2023: 1st place for the Master in Primary Eduction and highest score in Italy; Social Education: best course (tied) in this category in Italy; Musicology and Applied Linguistics first place in their disciplinary field among Italian non-state funded universities.

Faculty of Engineering

Times Higher Education Subject Ranking 2023: among the top 250 worldwide (subject: computer science) and the top 200 (subject: engineering)
CENSIS 2023: 2nd place for the master programmes among Italian non-state funded universities

People

4,374 students of whom

55 are from Studium Generale
383 are from the Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences
340 are from the Faculty of Design and Art
1,074 are from the Faculty of Economics and Management
1,667 are from the Faculty of Education
855 are from the Faculty of Engineering

172 tenured professors and researchers of whom

32.5% are female

51 years in the average age of tenured academic staff

654 contract lecturers

316 administration and technical staff of whom

37.66% are male and
29.75% are part-time

27.9% tenured professors and researchers are from abroad

279 Researchers with a fixed-term contract, of whom

148 Research assistants (AR)
100 from abroad

Teaching

15 Bachelor programmes of which

18 Master programmes of which

1 One-tier Master (5 years) (Faculty of Education)

9 PhD programmes

20 Studium Generale

16 Educational conventions and contracts

7 Lifelong Learning and ESF-FSE courses of which

1 Faculty of Design and Art
3 Faculty of Education
3 Faculty of Engineering

1,252 Internship agreements with companies and institutions

AlmaLaurea

78.7% of students graduate on time (national average 62.5%)
3.5 years is the average time needed to graduate (national average 3.9)
74.1% of studentes undertake an internship (national average 59.4%)
19.6% of graduates have completed a semester abroad (national average 9%)
2.8 is the average number of months between graduation and first job (national average 3.2)
8.3 is the average on a scale of 1–10 for satisfaction with chosen job (national average 7.8)

Research

281 current research projects, out of those

14 European
28 international
40 national
25 regional
58 research contracts
116 internal

1.699 research projects completed, out of those

74 European
40 international
64 national
80 regional
466 research contracts
975 internal

15.7 million € external funding in 2022 of which
9.6 million € from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR)
7.6 million € total internal budget of current research projects
66% of contracts with third parties are with local companies/organizations

279 contract researchers, of whom

148 research assistants
100 at unibz
71 are abroad

Research areas

3 research areas of the Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences

Agricultural Sciences
Food Sciences
Analysis and Management of Mountain Ecosystems

3 research areas of the Faculty of Design and Art

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7 research areas Faculty of Economics and Management

Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management;
Tourism, Marketing and Regional Development;
Financial Markets and Regulation;
Law, Economics and Institutions;
Quantitative Methods and Economic Modeling;
Family Business Management Platform;
Human dignity and Human Rights Platform (in collaboration with the Faculty of Education, the universities of Innsbruck, Salzburg and Trento, the “Accademia di studi italo-tedeschi di Merano/ Akademie deutsch-italienischer Studien Meran”)

7 research areas Faculty of Education

Permanent Education – Processes and Projects of Education and Development with a Focus on South Tyrol;
IN-IN Education: INnovative and INclusive Education;
Psychology and wellbeing promotion in educational contexts;
Languages and multilingualism in South Tyrol;
Aesthetic experiences and communication;
Educational Contexts, Disciplines and their Teaching in the Nursery and Primary School;
Socio cultural worlds: institutions, welfare, social professions, environment and population

9 research areas Faculty of Engineering

Data-driven Artificial Intelligence (D2AI)
Energy Resources and Energy Efficiency (ERE2)
Human-centered Intelligent Systems (HCIS)
Industrial Engineering and Automation (IEA)
Knowledge and Data (KRDB)
Materials and Devices for Smart Systems (MDSS)
Mathematical Foundation (MATH)
Sustainability and Safety for the Natural and built Environment (S2NBE)
Software Engineering and Autonomous Systems (SEAS)

Research Projects

Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences

The Faculty is currently working on 68 research projects of which 61 were started by the former Faculty of Science and Technology. The total value of the projects amounts to 9.2 million € (of which 90 % is externally financed) plus 9.6 million € financed by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza PNRR).