Student Life and Culture
Università della Svizzera italiana had 2852 students in 2010-2011; of these 1039 (37%) are Swiss, and 1813 (63%) are foreign - from Italy (38%) or from over one hundred other nationalities (25%). Exchange students (see Erasmus) for 2009-2010 were 104.
In leisure time, students participate in city-sponsored tourism events, school-sponsored sporting activities, and student associations, despite the town's small population. Twenty student associations have been established, with student clubs oriented around economics (AIESEC, Finance Floor USI), informatics (EESTEC, IEEE student branch), and communications (L'universo newspaper). Student clubs help orient students beyond the scope and purpose of the university orientation program, providing both professional guidance and information in career choices, and shorter-term personal experience sharing on services and entertainment within student financial means otherwise not advertised in Lugano.
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