The University of Trieste has confirmed its position among Italy’s most competitive universities. According to the new Censis Ranking of Italian Universities, UniTS ranks fourth among medium-sized state universities, with between 10,000 and 20,000 enrolled students. The result recognises the overall quality of the University’s academic offering and services.

The ranking is based on six indicators: scholarships, communication and digital services, internationalisation, student services, facilities and graduate employability.

More specifically, UniTS ranks second for communication and digital services, jointly with the University of Sassari and with an increase of 13 points compared with the previous edition. It ranks fifth for student services, together with Sassari and Udine, and for graduate employability, jointly with Bergamo; sixth for facilities; and seventh for scholarships, up seven points, and for internationalisation, which gained two points.

“Almost all the indicators have improved compared with the previous edition,” said Rector Donata Vianelli. “We have made particularly strong progress in scholarships and communication, while also achieving an excellent fifth place nationally for student services and employability. According to the latest AlmaLaurea Report, 86.5% of our graduates from two-year and single-cycle Master’s degree programmes are employed one year after graduation, almost six percentage points above the national average. This result recognises the quality of our education and the work carried out to build increasingly effective links with the local community and the business sector.”

The degree programme rankings, based on students’ academic progress and international relations, also highlight consistently strong performance across a range of disciplinary areas.

Among Bachelor’s degree programmes, the University of Trieste ranks first nationally among state universities in the language group, which includes the degree classes in Modern Languages and Cultures and Language Mediation, and second in Computer Science and ICT Technologies. UniTS also achieved strong results in the scientific group, where it ranks fourth, and in the political, social and communication group, where it ranks fifth. The economics group, in seventh place, psychology, in eighth, and literature and humanities, in tenth, also rank among the national top ten.

Among two-year Master’s degree programmes, the education and training group entered the national top ten with a score of 92.5. In the rankings for single-cycle Master’s degree programmes, UniTS ranks third in Pharmacy and Industrial Pharmacy, while Law and Medicine and Surgery both place among the national top ten.

Now in its twenty-sixth edition, the Censis Ranking of Italian Universities is based on more than 960 variables and includes 70 separate rankings. The overall assessment divides universities into comparable categories according to size, while the degree programme rankings compare the different groupings of degree classes at national level.