Teaching for all
In recent years , studying at Unipd has been rewarding for 9 out of 10 people who are satisfied with the courses, the lecturer staff, the relationship with other students, and the library services.
We offer future first-year students a wide choice of 236 courses of study on all subject areas: 114 bachelor's degree courses, 15 single-cycle master's degree courses and 107 master's degree courses and 4 inter-university courses. We are one of the best Italian universities for the quality of teaching.
In an increasingly international perspective, in recent years, the proposal of courses and courses of study entirely in English for both Italians and foreigners has also grown and has 60 courses taught exclusively in English, 15 in Italian and English and 2 courses that include courses in other foreign languages. There are over 7,800 international students studying at Unipd.
What's new this year
There are 7 new courses that Unipd offers for the A.Y.. 2026/27. Among the novelties, there is also the activation at the Rovigo campus of a duplication of the First-cycle/Bachelor's degree course in Sports Science:
- Intelligent Civil Infrastructures Engineering. A Second-cycle/Master's degree course taught in English and delivered mainly remotely, which trains interdisciplinary professionals capable of managing the life cycle of civil infrastructures in a digital and sustainable way.
- Medicine and Surgery – MedTech. Single-cycle master's course, delivered in English, which trains doctors with integrated skills in the clinical, biomedical, IT and statistical fields, and which offers the possibility of obtaining a double degree.
- Cognitive Science for Human-centric Technologies. Master's degree course delivered in English, in blended mode, which focuses on the study and development of human-centric technologies.
- Digital Humanities for the Criticism of Texts and Documents - Humanités numériques pour la critique des textes et des sources. Inter-university master's degree course with the Université de Tours - Francia, in Italian and French.
- Quantum Science and Engineering. Master's degree course in English that trains experts in quantum science and technology.
- Food, nutrition and health. International master's degree course with joint degree, delivered in English, which explores the interaction between nutrition, food science and technology and human health in a global context.
- Economics, governance and decision-making. Bachelor's degree course delivered in English, which offers solid skills in the social sciences, with a strong methodological imprint and attention to ethics and logical reasoning.
The 2026/27 degree courses will also include the following 5 courses of study, 4 of which are taught in English, with renewed content and teaching structure:
- Environmental sciences for the ecological transition. The master's degree is the transformation of the course "Science and technology for the environment and the territory", it will be delivered in English and will increase the percentage of online teaching by introducing the mixed mode.
- Control systems engineering. The master's degree course has changed the entry requirements and introduces 5 curricula.
- Sustainable chemistry and technologies for circular economy. The Master's degree introduces a new Erasmus Mundus course track.
- Geosciences for the earth, the environment and the planets. The master's degree is the transformation of the "Environmental Geology and Dynamics of the Earth" course, and introduces a course track dedicated to the study of planetary geology.
- Geophysics for earth and climate processes, risks and resources. The master's degree is the transformation of the "Geophysics for natural risks and resources" course.
We have invested a lot to have large and new classrooms and to install live streaming systems in our classrooms. Their hours of use can be extended from morning to evening, during the week and on Saturday mornings, to deliver the lessons of all our courses at the same time.
We believe that learning and higher education are also the result of meeting people, between those who study and those who teach , and of living in a university city.
Innovative for some time. Inclusive by choice
We are aware that students are different people from each other who form increasingly heterogeneous groups, and it is important to us to foster learning environments that are aware of everyone's strengths that guarantee equal access to education considering disabilities, health difficulties, migration stories and other difficult experiences, and promote teaching that is increasingly capable of making everyone experience fair and quality education.
And innovation means above all, for us, simplifying bureaucracy and making cutting-edge tools available such as Blockcerts degrees : the standard proposed by the MIT Media Lab in Boston, which allows the issuance of a digital degree certificate (formalized and stored on a blockchain).
Teaching4Learning: innovative and participatory teaching
We promote innovation in the wake of tradition, identifying new and effective strategies to involve students.
Paduan professors have been updating themselves for several years now on the latest innovative teaching techniques through the Teaching4Learning (T4L) project, a pioneer in Italy, born in harmony with the development lines of the European Union.
With this training course, communities are created that promote educational and technological innovation among those who teach at Unipd, opening the doors of our classrooms to share methods and good course unit practices, also through observation and peer comparison in the classroom to provide and receive constructive feedback.