Five campuses (Milano, Brescia, Piacenza-Cremona, Roma and Campobasso), 14 faculties, 52 three-year Major tracks, 42 graduate level degrees, 1 four-years degree, over 100 master tracks, 53 specializations and 5 Postgraduate Schools. These are the basic numbers that characterize the Universitą Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, founded in 1921 by Father Agostino Gemelli and legally recognized by the Italian state on October 2nd, 1924. During the university's distinguished history, there have been six University Presidents since Father Gemelli: Francesco Vito, Ezio Franceschini, Giuseppe Lazzati, Adriano Bausola, Sergio Zaninelli, and the current acting President - Lorenzo Ornaghi.

From among the universities which award legally recognized degrees (as with Italian State Universities), the Universitą Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is the most comprehensive and complete in Italy. Our network of Cultural Development Centers extends as far as the Italian islands, making our University strongly national, with the added bonus of also being recognized in the international scientific community.

Thanks to its prestigious faculty, the Universitą Cattolica excels in the diverse and articulate study opportunities that it offers, both in the humanities, as well as the scientific fields. Through the courses offered, combined with strong research programs, the university values and promotes an interdisciplinary approach which helps students gain scientific knowledge in a responsible and autonomous fashion.

Our extensive research program closely collaborates with 16 internal colleges, 62 departments and 93 research centers. Their common goal is the understanding and study of those topics that have proved vital to the well being of each human being: the new frontiers of economics, bioethics, environmental recuperation, developments in the judicial fields, family dynamics, major mass phenomena, the evolution of political systems, new horizons in medicine, the technological applications of physics and mathematics, and the most recent discoveries in environmental research.

Opportunities for academic development and growth don't by any means end with the confirmation of degrees, but are rather continually enhanced through further opportunities available to alumni, already entrenched in professional careers, by keeping them in contact with almost 42,000 enrolled Cattolica students through extra curricular and post-graduate activities.

The attention given to each individual student and his/her specific interests starts with enrollment and continues throughout and beyond the completion of a diploma or degree. In fact, it is because of the many services offered by the Cattolica, such as orientation activities, specialized tutoring labs specifically designed to accompany and guide students during their academic path, internships and stages, study abroad and Erasmus programs both in and beyond European countries, and job-placement services which help students select a future career, that we establish a strong tie between the university and the professional world.