University

1997 Year of foundation

4 Teaching languages (English, German, Italian and Ladin)

5 Faculties

8 Competence centres

Facilities and associations

3 university locations

4 Campuses

11 design workshops

89 laboratories

14 at NOI Techpark

4 campus libraries

1 BITZ unibz fablab

5 student associations

Finances

€104,597,815 budget in 2024, of which

81.2% from the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano (€84,890,154)
15.0% from externally funded and other sources (€15,668,970 )
3.9% from tuition fees (€4,038,691)

University Ranking

International and National Rankings
In national rankings, our university reaches top positions every year. We rank high in international rankings too, especially under the categories "Internationalisation", "Student Satisfaction" and "Citations".

Censis
In 2025, for the ninth year in a row, the socio-economic research institute Censis ranked our university first among small non-state universities (with fewer than 5,000 students) in Italy, also awarding it the third highest score among all universities.

Faculty of Design and Art: first place for the Bachelor and Master programmes among Italian non-state funded universities.
Faculty of Economics and Management: second place for the Bachelor programmes among Italian non-state funded universities.
Faculty of Education: first place for the Bachelor programmes among Italian non-state funded universities.
Faculty of Engineering: second place for the Bachelor programmes and first place for the Master programmes among Italian non-state funded universities.

THE World University Rankings
In the 2025 Times Higher Education World University Rankings unibz ranked in the band of 351— 400 out of almost 2,800 institutions worldwide. Our strongest pillars are "Research quality" (among the top 300 with a score of 85.9) and "International outlook" (among the top 300 with a score of 78.9). In Italy we are on the 12th position out of 57 universities ranked and on the first for "International outlook". In the Small University Rankings 2024 we are on position 14.

Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences: among the top 400 worldwide (subject: Life Sciences).
Faculty of Design and Art: among the top 500 worldwide (subject: Arts and Humanities).
Faculty of Economics and Management: in the band of 151-175 worldwide (subject: Business and Economics).
Faculty of Education: among the top 600 worldwide (subject: Education Studies).
Faculty of Engineering: among the top 400 worldwide (subjects: Computer Science, Engineering).

QS World University Rankings
In 2025, unibz was included for the fourth time in the QS World University Rankings securing the 643rd position out of 8,467 universities analyzed. It ranked among the top 300 in the 'Citations per Faculty' category.

Research Quality Evaluation 2015-2019 by the National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR)
Faculty of Economics and Management: second place (out of 72) for Management and 6th place (out of 71) for Economics at national level.

People

4,156 students

15.8% come from abroad (national average 5.3%)
representing 85 different nationalities

178 tenured professors and researchers, of whom

32.5% are female
28% come from abroad

328 Researchers with a fixed-term contract, of whom

203 are research assistants (AR)
124 come from abroad

709 teaching staff

329 administration and technical staff

62.31% are female
31.61% are part-time

Teaching

14 Bachelor programmes

15 Master programmes

1 One-tier Master (5 years) (Faculty of Education)

10 PhD programmes

1 Studium Generale

23 courses

16 Lifelong Learning courses

4 ESF+ projects for the training of RTDs, ARs and PhDs and for the creation of Executive Masters

4 projects supporting institutional courses

794 local grants awarded to students in 2024

1,148 Internship agreements with companies and institutions

AlmaLaurea

Bachelor programmes

71.1% of students graduated on time (national average 58.5%)
3.5 years is the average time needed to graduate (national average 4)
79.9% of graduates undertook an internship (national average 59.8%)
27.3% of graduates completed a period of study abroad during their degree (national average 7.8%)
2.9 is the average number of months between graduation and first job (national average 3.3)
7.9 is the average satisfaction with chosen job on a scale of 1–10 (national average 7.7)

Master programmes

75.5% of students graduate on time (national average 61.2%)
2.5 years is the average time needed to graduate (national average 2.8)
57.8% of graduates undertook an internship (national average 63.4%)
21.7% of graduates completed a period of study abroad during their degree (national average 13.2%)
3.4 is the average number of months between graduation and first job (national average 3.2)
7.9 is the average satisfaction with chosen job on a scale of 1–10 (national average 7.7)

Research

444 research projects

112 new projects for a total value of €14.5 million, including:

€5.5 million from international and European funds (Horizon, Erasmus+, INTERREG, ERDF)
€3.7 million from national funds (PNRR and other national funds)
€2.9 million from provincial funds (Research, Joint Projects, Mobility, Special projects)
€2.4 million from contract research projects

Research areas
3 research areas of the Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences
The Faculty and its affiliated competence centers carried out 110 research projects, with a total funding of €13.2 million

86.94% of which from external sources

3 research areas of the Faculty of Design and Art
The Faculty carried out 21 research projects, with a total funding of €1.99 million

59.11% of which from external sources

5 research areas of the Faculty of Economics and Management
The Faculty and its affiliated competence centers carried out 53 research projects, with a total funding of €5.27 million

73.74% of which from external sources

7 research areas of the Faculty of Education
The Faculty and its affiliated competence centers carried out 97 research projects, with a total funding of €6.19 million

70.68% of which from external sources

9 research areas of the Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty carried out 159 research projects, with a total funding of €18.97 million

82.36% of which from external sources

Interfaculty research projects
In 2024, four interfaculty research projects were ongoing, with a total external funding of €13.8 million.

International Relations

188 Erasmus+ agreements
32 bilateral agreements with non-European and Italian universities
6 Swiss European Mobility Programme agreements
674 exchange spots for outgoing and incoming students
1 Erasmus Mundus
5 international study programmes with a double or joint degree
1 Euregio agreement between the universities of Bozen-Bolzano, Innsbruck and Trento

Technology Transfer

3  active spin-offs at NOI Techpark

8 unibz trademarks, of which

3 european
5 international

37 patents, of which

31 granted
6 filed by unibz and its researchers

321 cooperation partners, of which

124 are companies
52 are located in the Autonomous Province of Bozen-Bolzano

Language Centre

3,381 course participants

203 language course offered

3 international certificates

4,319 language exams administered

Courses in 8 languages (English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic).

International Language Certificate preparation courses; One-to-one language advising; Courses for admin and academic staff; Courses for beginners up to the C1 level.

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Facts and Figures 2024