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Past and present<br />
Happy 450 th birthday!<br />
In 2011-12 the University <strong>of</strong> Sassari celebrates its 450th academic<br />
year.<br />
The University <strong>of</strong> Sassari owes its foundation to Alessio Fontana,<br />
a clerk at Emperor Charles V's chancellery, who in 1558 donated<br />
his belongings to the municipality <strong>of</strong> Sassari for the establishment<br />
<strong>of</strong> a college in this town.<br />
In 1559 the first Jesuits arrived to Sassari and in 1562 the first<br />
courses were taught. During the following years a “University<br />
House” was established, and in 1617 King Philip III acknowledged<br />
the status <strong>of</strong> first Royal University <strong>of</strong> Sardinia to the Jesuit college<br />
<strong>of</strong> Sassari.<br />
Today, the University <strong>of</strong> Sassari<br />
<strong>of</strong>fers multiple education degrees at the undergraduate,<br />
graduate, master and PhD level<br />
hosts 703 researchers and pr<strong>of</strong>essors distributed among 11<br />
Faculties, 30 departments, 22 libraries, and over 40 institutes<br />
and research centres<br />
over 15,000 students enrolled in the University <strong>of</strong> Sassari and<br />
500 are currently spending a study or training period in other<br />
European Universities/Institutions<br />
in 2010 a total <strong>of</strong> 196 visiting pr<strong>of</strong>essors have taught at the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Sassari<br />
the number <strong>of</strong> incoming Erasmus students from other European<br />
Universities is constantly increasing<br />
the University <strong>of</strong> Sassari has established cooperative exchange<br />
agreements with over 200 Universities participating in the<br />
Erasmus Programme<br />
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u i d e f o r I n c o ming Students<br />
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