Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

The Scuola Normale Superiore nowadays is an elite school with an egalitarian basis that awards merit, talent and the potentialities of its students independently from their social origins and their previous studies. The aim of the Scuola is the formation of scholars, professionals and citizens with a wide cultural background and with a strong critical attitude. A fundamental role is also played by the relations and the collaborations that the Scuola has been able to establish in all these years with the main university and research institutions both national and international favoring in this way the mobility of both students and professors and their involvement in courses of study and research programmes. The Scuola aims at providing to its students and alumni placement service to promote the relations and the links with important professional institutions and to favor a qualified insertion of its graduated in the world of work.

The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa is a centre for teaching and research founded by Napoleon in 1810 as a branch of the ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Professors, researchers and students all work together as one, in classrooms and laboratories, developing cultural activities and experimental initiatives.Academic activity is carried out in two divisions, the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Sciences, and at two levels, the undergraduate and the doctoral.The greatest resource of the Scuola Normale is the quality of its students. Selected on merit only through competitive exams and interviews, they live in completely free residential areas, and follow their studies with a natural fusion of experiences, research, in-depth analysis and intuition.

Foundation year: 1810
Short name: SNS Type: State-supported
Students: 540
Faculty: 80
Faculty/Students Ratio:7:1
Region: Europe
Location: Pisa