University of Rome Tor Vergata
Encyclopedia
The University of Rome Tor Vergata is a public university located in Rome
, Italy
. It is one of the largest research-based institutions in the country. The University is an international center for research and education and it is well known for scientific studies. In recent years the activity of technology transfer and cooperation with other public and private organizations in different fields has obtained an increasingly important role. The University Hospital is located in a 600-hectares-campus, and it is considered a flagship of the University. It is well equipped with diagnostic and therapeutic vanguard structures and it has become a reference model at national and international levels.
The University of Rome Tor Vergata was established in 1981 with the goal of providing high quality education for students preparing to meet the ever-evolving needs and opportunities of the 21st century workforce. Located in the South-Eastern suburb of Rome, easily reachable by bus, the University is an academic establishment which combines a liberal arts tradition with emphasis on career orientation in the field of Economics, Engineering, Sciences and Medicine.
The university occupies a large park area outside the Grande Raccordo Anulare
highway connection, in the eastern sector of the city. Its current president is Renato Lauro, a professor in the Medicine and Surgery faculty.
A new campus has been inaugurated at the city’s Tor Vegata university in the south-eastern suburbs of the city. 950 of the planned 1,500 bed spaces are move-in ready with the remaining 550 coming on stream by March 2011. The complex opens to the first students during November. When finished the campus will be the largest in Italy.
Individual faculty rankings were:
In "QS World University Rankings by Subject: Economics" the Faculty of Economics was ranked to be in the Top 200 in the world in 2011. In IDEAS rankings for "Top 25% Economics Departments in the World" the Faculty of Economics can be found in place 96. Also for many consecutive years the Faculty of Economics has been in the Top 3 in La Repubblica newspaper´s annual ranking of economic faculties in Italy.
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, Italy
Italy
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. It is one of the largest research-based institutions in the country. The University is an international center for research and education and it is well known for scientific studies. In recent years the activity of technology transfer and cooperation with other public and private organizations in different fields has obtained an increasingly important role. The University Hospital is located in a 600-hectares-campus, and it is considered a flagship of the University. It is well equipped with diagnostic and therapeutic vanguard structures and it has become a reference model at national and international levels.
The University of Rome Tor Vergata was established in 1981 with the goal of providing high quality education for students preparing to meet the ever-evolving needs and opportunities of the 21st century workforce. Located in the South-Eastern suburb of Rome, easily reachable by bus, the University is an academic establishment which combines a liberal arts tradition with emphasis on career orientation in the field of Economics, Engineering, Sciences and Medicine.
The university occupies a large park area outside the Grande Raccordo Anulare
Grande Raccordo Anulare
The GRA or Grande Raccordo Anulare is a toll-free, ring-shaped orbital motorway, 68,2 km in circumference that encircles Rome...
highway connection, in the eastern sector of the city. Its current president is Renato Lauro, a professor in the Medicine and Surgery faculty.
A new campus has been inaugurated at the city’s Tor Vegata university in the south-eastern suburbs of the city. 950 of the planned 1,500 bed spaces are move-in ready with the remaining 550 coming on stream by March 2011. The complex opens to the first students during November. When finished the campus will be the largest in Italy.
Organization
The university is divided into six schools:- School of EconomicsEconomicsEconomics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
- School of EngineeringEngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
- School of HumanitiesHumanitiesThe humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
, ArtsARtsaRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
and Social SciencesSocial sciencesSocial science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences... - School of LawLawLaw is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
- School of MedicineMedicineMedicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
and SurgerySurgerySurgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical... - School of ScienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
Scholars
- Lucio RussoLucio RussoLucio Russo is an Italian physicist, mathematician and historian of science. Born in Venice, he teaches at the Mathematics Department of the Science College in the University of Rome Tor Vergata....
- Mario PerniolaMario PerniolaMario Perniola is an internationally acclaimed Italian philosopher, professor of Aesthetics and author. Many of his works have been published in English.-Biography:...
- Franco Peracchi
- Giovanni Toniolo
- Riccardo Faini (died in 2007)
- Elisabetta Iossa
- Giancarlo Spagnolo
- Luigi Paganetto
- Leonardo Becchetti
- Gustavo Piga
- Stefano Fenoaltea
Rankings
The overall ranking of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" in QS World University Rankings in 2011 was 380Individual faculty rankings were:
- Art & Humanities 292
- Natural Sciences 164
- Engineering & IT 350
- Social Sciences 350
- Life Sciences 276
In "QS World University Rankings by Subject: Economics" the Faculty of Economics was ranked to be in the Top 200 in the world in 2011. In IDEAS rankings for "Top 25% Economics Departments in the World" the Faculty of Economics can be found in place 96. Also for many consecutive years the Faculty of Economics has been in the Top 3 in La Repubblica newspaper´s annual ranking of economic faculties in Italy.