University

1997 Year of foundation

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

5 Faculties

8 Competence centres

3 Campuses

27.2% Tenured professors and researchers of international origin

14.6% of students of international origin (national average 4.7%)

92,958,927 budget 2023, of which

76,987,953 from the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano (82.8%)
12,194,231 externally funded and other sources (13.1%)
3,776,743 tuition fees (4.1%)

480 recognition procedures for foreign qualifications in 2023
832 local grants awarded to students in 2023
2005 year of the ISO27001 certification
2005 year of the ISO9001 certification (for ICT)
8 design workshops
76 laboratories
1 BITZ unibz fablab
5 student associations

University Ranking

International and National Rankings
In national rankings, our university reaches top positions every year. We rank high in international rankings too, especially under the categories "internationalisation", "student satisfaction" and "citations".

Censis
In 2024, for the eighth year in a row, we ranked first among the small non-state universities (less than 5,000 students) in the ranking of the socio-economic research institute Censis, also achieving the highest average score.

THE World University Rankings
In the 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings unibz ranked in the band of 351— 400 out of almost 2,800 institutions worldwide. Our strongest pillars are "Research quality" (with a score of 85.5 among the top 300) and "International outlook" (with a score of 78.6 among the top 300). In Italy we are on the 12th position out of 56 universities ranked and on the first position for "International outlook". In the Small University Rankings 2024 we are on position 14.

QS World University Rankings
In 2024 unibz has entered for the fourth time the QS World University Rankings at rank position 661-670 among 5,000 universities surveyed. It ranks among the top 250 in the metrics for “International Faculty ratio”.

Faculty Rankings

Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences

Times Higher Education Subject Ranking 2024: among the top 500 worldwide (subject: life sciences)

Faculty of Design and Art

CENSIS 2024: 1st place for the bachelor programme and for the master programme among Italian non-state funded universities.

Faculty of Economics and Management

Times Higher Education Subject Ranking 2024: 176-200 worldwide (subject: Business & Economics).
CENSIS 2024: Economics and management subject area: 2nd place for teaching (Bachelor programmes) 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 level.

Faculty of Education

CENSIS 2024: 2nd place for the Master in Primary Education.
Times Higher Education Subject Ranking 2024: among the top 500 worldwide (subject: education).

Faculty of Engineering

Times Higher Education Subject Ranking 2024: among the top 300 worldwide (subject: computer science) and the top 400 (subject: engineering).
CENSIS 2024: 2nd place for the master programmes among Italian non-state funded universities.

People

4,216 students of whom

33 are from Studium Generale
376 are from the Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences
342 are from the Faculty of Design and Art
1,060 are from the Faculty of Economics and Management
1,575 are from the Faculty of Education
863 are from the Faculty of Engineering

173 tenured professors and researchers of whom

32.4% are female

52 years in the average age of tenured academic staff

679 teaching staff

316 administration and technical staff of whom

37.97% are male and
30.38% are part-time

27.2% tenured professors and researchers are from abroad

298 Researchers with a fixed-term contract, of whom

175 are Research assistants (AR)
103 come from abroad

Teaching

14 Bachelor programmes of which

15 Master programmes of which

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

9 PhD programmes

20 Studium Generale

12 Educational conventions and contracts

13 Lifelong Learning and ESF-FSE courses of which

1 Faculty of Design and Art
8 Faculty of Education
4 Faculty of Engineering

1,179 Internship agreements with companies and institutions

AlmaLaurea

75.4% of students graduate on time (national average 61.5%)
3.5  years is the average time needed to graduate (national average  3.9)
69.1% of studentes undertake an internship (national average 60.7%)
23.9% of graduates have completed a semester abroad (national average 9.8%)
2.9 is the average number of months between graduation and first job (national average 3.1)
8.1 is the average on a scale of 1–10 for satisfaction with chosen job (national average 7.8)

Research

511 current research projects, out of those

55 European
37 international
97 national
29 regional
129 research contracts
164 internal

2,193 research projects completed, out of those

148 European
73 international
159 national
115 regional
573 research contracts
1,125 internal

15.27 million € external funding in 2023 of which

1.86 million € total internal budget research projects in 2023
34.21% of contracts with third parties are with local companies/organizations

298 contract researchers, of whom

175 research assistants
103 from 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

MAKE: Exploring Innovative Approaches to the Ideation of Artefacts and Spaces
TRANS-FORM: Exploring Design, Art and Social Practices for political and eco-social Transitions
ENABLE: Design & Art Competences, Material Culture and Human Development

5 research areas of the Faculty of Economics and Management

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management
Tourism, Marketing and Regional Development
Financial Markets and Regulation
Law, Economics and Institutions
Quantitative Methods and Economic Modeling

7 research areas of the 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 of the 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 Foundations (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 126 research projects. The total value of the projects amounts to 21.8 million Euro (of which 83 % is externally financed).