College of Padua – 1222 – Padua, Italy Padua

The university became founded in 1222 when students and faculty left the university of Bologna to set up a frame of scholars with an emphasis on freedom of notion in examine and coaching. via 1399 the college had developed  wonderful establishments, the Universitas Iuristarum for civil law and Canon regulation, and the Universitas Artistarum which taught astronomy, dialectic, philosophy, grammar, medication, and rhetoric. nowadays, the college over 38,000 undergraduates, 20,000 postgraduates, and greater than 2,2 hundred participants of workforce.

Motto: Universa Universis Patavina Libertas
Translation: Liberty of Padua, universally and for all
 

Alumni:
Andrea Vesalio
Copernicus
Galileo
Daniele Barbaro
Torquato Tasso
Federico Faggin