Superior Graduate Schools in Italy

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A Superior Graduate School (Italian: Scuola Superiore Universitaria) is a completely independent institution from a legal point of view, which offers advanced training and research through university-type courses or is dedicated to teaching at graduate or post-doctoral level.

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The Superior Graduate Schools in Italy, [1] the Scuola Superiore Universitaria, are recognized by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy) (MIUR) [2] as fully autonomous. Three Superior Graduate Schools have "university status"; three institutes have the status of doctoral colleges, which function at graduate and post-graduate levels; and nine other schools are direct offshoots of universities, lacking independent university status. These state institutions are commonly referred to as Scuole di Eccellenza ("Schools of Excellence") [1] [3]

The institutions offer recognized national and international titles, including the Diploma di Perfezionamento (equivalent to a doctorate), Dottorato di Ricerca ("Research Doctorate"), and Doctor Philosophiae (Ph.D). [4] Some of these institutions, individually or in co-operation with the universities with which they work, also organize courses leading to master's degrees.

The oldest and most famous Superior Graduate School in Italy is the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, founded in 1810 by Napoleon as a branch of the famous École Normale Supérieure in Paris, upon which it was modelled. The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies also has long history of existence in Italian education, as its origins are in the Collegio Medico-Giuridico of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and the Conservatorio di Sant'Anna, an even older educational institution with roots in the fourteenth century. [5]

Superior graduate schools with university status

Superior graduate schools with the status of doctoral colleges

Superior graduate schools which are direct offshoots of other universities

Research doctorate or Ph.D.

The first institution in Italy to create a doctoral program was Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1927 under the historic name "Diploma di Perfezionamento". [25] [26] Further, the dottorato di ricerca was introduced by law and presidential decree in 1980, [27] [28] in a reform of academic teaching, training and experimentation in organisation and teaching methods. [29] [30]

The Superior Graduate Schools in Italy [1] (Italian: Scuola Superiore Universitaria), [31] also called Schools of Excellence (Italian: Scuole di Eccellenza) [1] [32] such as Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies keep their historical "Diploma di Perfezionamento" title by law [26] [33] and MIUR Decree. [34] [35]

The Superior Graduate School or Scuola Superiore Universitaria has "Diplomi di Perfezionamento ", which are equivalent to "Dottorati di Ricerca" (PhD).: [4] [36] [37]

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  2. ↑ Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca
  3. ↑ Scuole di Eccellenza
  4. 1 2 Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) Decree
  5. ↑ Statuto della Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Gazzetta Ufficiale il 28 dicembre 2011
  6. ↑ Scuola normale superiore di Pisa
  7. ↑ Scuola superiore di studi universitari e di perfezionamento Sant'Anna di Pisa
  8. ↑ Istituto universitario di studi superiori di Pavia
  9. ↑ Scuola Superiore Meridionale
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  13. ↑ Collegio superiore sul sito dell'università degli studi di Bologna
  14. ↑ Scuola di studi superiori sul sito dell'università degli studi di Torino
  15. ↑ Scuola superiore Santa Chiara sul sito dell'università degli studi di Siena Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ Scuola superiore sul sito dell'università degli studi di Catania
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  23. ↑ Scuola di Studi Superiori 'Carlo Urbani'
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