FOSTERING INNOVATION

Innovation has always been a key point of our teaching. 
Massive investments on the newest infrastructure technologies are being made. The so-called “blended” learning (both online and on-campus) allows all of our students to feel part of our great community, even if they are prevented from being with us physically.

 A MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNIVERSITY

236 undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, more than 70 of which are taught in English (60 completely held in English), await you in Padua! A comprehensive portfolio, where interconnections among the different disciplines generate a vibrant and stimulating learning environment, ranging from Engineering to Business and Political Sciences, from Medicine to Humanities, from Psychology to Agriculture, from Law to Science.
There are aover 7,800 international students studying at Unipd. 
The University of Padua proposes also the Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori (Galilean School of Higher Education), a school of excellence that combines traditional university education with a series of special in-house courses comprising seminars and lectures by visiting professors of international fame

 NEW THIS YEAR

There are 7 new courses, that Unipd is proposing for the academic year 2026/27, while 4 courses will be inter-university. In addition, the course in Human movement science is offered at another location, Rovigo.

- Intelligent Civil Infrastructures Engineering. A Master’s degree programme, taught in English and delivered mainly online, aimed at training interdisciplinary professionals capable of managing the life cycle of civil infrastructures from a digital and sustainable perspective.

 - Medicine and Health Technology (MedTech). A Master’s degree programme, taught in English, which trains physicians with integrated competences in the clinical, biomedical, IT and statistical fields, and offers the opportunity to obtain a double degree.

 - Cognitive Science for Human-centric Technologies. A Master’s degree programme, taught in English in blended mode, focusing 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. A joint Master’s degree programme with the Université de Tours (France), taught in Italian and French.

 - Quantum Science and Engineering. A Master’s degree programme taught in English, training experts in quantum sciences and technologies.

 - Food, Nutrition and Health. A joint Master’s degree programme, taught in English, which explores the interaction between nutrition, food science and technology, and human health in a global context.

 - Philosophy, Politics and Economics. A Bachelor’s degree programme, taught in English, providing solid competences in the social sciences, with a strong methodological focus and attention toethics and logical reasoning.

 SMART CLASSROOMS

We have invested more than 3 million in renting large, new classrooms and installing live streaming systems in our teaching rooms. They can be used from morning to evening, during the week and on Saturday mornings, to deliver the lectures of all our 199 programmes at the same time.

We believe that learning and higher education are also the result of students and teachers coming together and of living our univer-city.

 APPLICATION SUPPORT

International students can rely on a dedicated application platform, where their applications can be submitted in just a few clicks. If you are not sure about the various steps to take and the documents to provide, find information on how to apply. Our Admissions and Welcome Unit, which is in charge of evaluating international entry qualifications, will support you throughout the application procedure.

  CHINESE PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

If you are a Chinese student, don’t miss the chance to visit our Chinese website and to contact the China Desk! Chinese speaking staff will help you along your journey towards us.

 TEACHING4LEARNING

The University of Padua promotes a tradition of innovation by identifying new and effective strategies to stimulate interaction with its students. University professors have been updating teaching techniques through the Teaching4Learning@Unipd Project. Pioneered in Italy, this innovative teaching tool follows the development lines of the European Union. 

The use of this training path enables University of Padua educators to use technological innovation to open the doors of their classrooms and to create a community where they can share their teaching methods and best practices. The project uses observation and comparison of peers by offering a classroom experience with constructive feedback.

 INNOVATIVE FOR A LONG TIME. INCLUSIVE BY CHOICE

Unipd offers high quality teaching and rapid digital transformation because, for some time now, it has been working to this end. For three years, Unipd professors have been "going to school": they have attend refreshing courses to learn how to teach with innovative methods, which are not only restricted to the use of technology, but also include a more engaging, direct and empathic relationship with students, in line with EU guidelines.

We are aware that all students are different from one another, which leads to increasingly heterogeneous groups, and we care about promotion of learning environments meeting each one's strengths, by guaranteeing equal access to training, while taking disabilities, health difficulties, stories of migration and other difficult experiences into account, and promoting teaching methods that are increasingly capable of letting everyone experience fair and quality education.

For us, being innovative also means reducing bureaucracy and implementing cutting-edge tools such as Blockcerts degrees: the standard proposed by the MIT Media Lab in Boston, which allows the issue of a digital degree certificate (formalised and stored in a blockchain).