Internships allow students to have a different learning experience, typically at a company. The percentage of students who have acquired ECTS credits through traineeships is around 17%, broadly in line with previous years.
As far as the right to study is concerned, the data on scholarships or similar measures are distributed between undergraduate and postgraduate courses, with a further distinction between scholarships granted with university funds and scholarships financed with other funds. Scholarships provided with university funds numerically prevail in undergraduate and postgraduate courses compared to other forms of funding. For PhDs programmes, funding is granted not only by the university but also by other institutions and bodies, both public and private, which is significant.
Although university residence “Collegio Fonda” is an independent organisation, it is run by the University of Trieste. Most of the costs of services offered in “Collegio Fonda” are paid by university funds. This university residence attracts students with good marks who come both from Italy and from abroad, and it offers them housing services and extra learning activities. The diagram below shows some important data about the main services offered by “Collegio Fonda”.
For further information please visit the “Collegio Fonda” website:
Every year the university offers transdisciplinary courses, open to students of all disciplines. Some courses have specific purposes (for example, providing basic managerial skills to students working on entrepreneurial projects) while others have generic cultural purposes (hygiene and health at work, gender studies...). Below is the link to the University page dedicated to Open Badges: https://portale.units.it/en/study/attend-course/open-badge
The indicators show how long students take to complete their studies on average, the percentage of students graduating on time, as well as the number of bachelor's, master's and integrated master’s degrees (e.g. law). Cases where students take an excessive amount of time to complete their studies should be seen as an anomaly to be corrected.
The University of Trieste offers several Bachelor’s degree courses, Master’s degree courses and PhDs in agreement with other Italian universities – especially those in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region –, with universities abroad and with a scientific institute of national importance, the INFN, National Institute of Nuclear Physics.
Postgraduate courses recorded an increase in enrolment, especially in medical specialisation schools and MIB management masters.
As can be seen from the graph, the University of Trieste assigns lectures to permanent and contract teaching staff. Both the number of permanent members of teaching staff and the number of teaching hours provided are growing. On average, in 2023 each teacher spent 90 hours teaching (91 hours in 2022). The compulsory teaching load for full-time professors is 120 hours (80 hours for part-time professors). Researchers are given a lower teaching load depending on their contract and on whether they work full-time or part-time.
The graphs represent the evolution of the University's course catalogue.View the newly activated courses as well as the courses which have been withdrawn.
Doctorate degrees create tomorrow’s researchers. The University wishes to enhance its international profile and pays particular attention to offering PhD courses which are attractive to international candidates.
