Our Faculty offers students a wide range of academic degree courses, featuring innovative elements.
The Faculty of Engineering grew out of the School of Applications for Engineers founded within the University of Bologna in 1877. The first location of the School was the former Monastery of San Giovanni dei Celestini near the main city’s square, Piazza Maggiore, later closed. The current Faculty location was designed by architect Giuseppe Vaccaro and was inaugurated in 1935.
Our Faculty fosters a cultural dimension which is extremely important today and which is characterised by a sound scientific foundation and by a strong vocation for technological applications. It encourages a project-oriented and systemic culture that operates on the basis of specific objectives and well-defined hypotheses, selecting the technical instruments in terms of the objectives.
The teaching provision is broad-ranging and well-structured: with 15 undergraduate degree courses, 10 postgraduate degree courses and one e European postgraduate degree course, it covers the Industrial, Information Technology, Environmental, Civil and Architectural-Building areas.
In spite of the current job crisis, our Faculty’s graduates can still get good jobs comparatively easily because here they gain important skills whichever study course they choose to take from among the options made available by the Faculty. The advanced skills they acquire enable them to step into the labour market in a position of superiority: as a matter of fact, our engineering graduates are fully committed to their roles, they are accustomed to putting a great deal of effort into what they do, even if this may involve making some personal sacrifices,. Furthermore, they have high levels of concentration levels and can withstand tough intellectual pressures; they are not only used to studying, observing and learning abour the real world , but also to designing and setting up projects.
The Faculty of Engineering is situated in Bologna in Via Risorgimento 2, in the Saragozza district.
If you are coming by car, exit the ring-road at exit no. 5 and follow the directions for the city centre; once you have reached the inner urban ring-road, head for Porta Saragozza.
If you are coming by train, take bus no. 33 (circular route) from the railway station and alight at the bus stop "Liceo Righi"; if you are starting from the city centre, catch bus no. 20 to get to the Faculty building . Whichever bus you take, the journey lasts about 15 minutes.
The Student Registry Office is situated Via Saragozza no. 10, not far from the main Faculty building.
For further information on the bus schedules and routes in Bologna, please see the website of the public bus company in Bologna (ATC: Azienda Trasporti Comunali)