University of Milan

The University of Milan (; ), officially abbreviated as UNIMI, or colloquially referred to as La Statale ("the Statal [University]"), is a public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with about 60,000 students, and a permanent teaching and research staff of about 2,000.

The University of Milan has ten schools and offers 140 undergraduate and graduate degree programmes, 32 Doctoral Schools and 65+ Specialization Schools. The University's research and teaching activities have grown over the years and have received important international recognitions. The University is the only Italian member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), a group of twenty-one research-intensive European universities.

The university has been frequented by many notable alumni, including Enrico Bombieri (Fields medalist, 1974), Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel laureate in Physics, 2002), Marco Bersanelli (Gruber Prize in Cosmology recipient, 2006), Patrizia A. Caraveo (Bruno Rossi Prize recipient, 2007, 2011, 2012), Alberto Mantovani (Robert Koch Prize recipient, 2016), Fabiola Gianotti (two times CERN General Director and Bruno Pontecorvo Prize recipient, 2019), as well as former Italian Prime Ministers Silvio Berlusconi and Bettino Craxi, and former Greek President Karolos Papoulias. The university has also been affiliated with notable faculty such as Giulio Natta (Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1963), Giuseppe Occhialini (Wolf Prize in Physics recipient, 1979), and Ugo Amaldi (Bruno Pontecorvo Prize recipient, 1995). Provided by Wikipedia