The University of Pisa (Italian Università di Pisa), is an Italian public research university located in Pisa, Italy. Established in 1343 by an edict of Pope Clement VI, Pisa is the 19th oldest extant university in the world and one of the oldest universities in the country. It houses Europe's oldest academic botanical garden (Orto botanico di Pisa), which was founded in 1544.
The University of Pisa is part of the Pisa University System, which includes the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. It offers a wide range of courses. The Computer Science course at University of Pisa is the first in the area to be activated in Italy. The aerospace Master of Science (MSc) courses are the first in Italy to be offered entirely in the English language. The university has about 57,000 students (of which 53,000 are undergraduate and postgraduate studies and 3,500 are doctoral and specialization studies). In the field of Italian philology, the University of Pisa leads the Consorzio ICoN, an inter-university consortium of 21 Italian universities supported by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. It's also the only university in Italy which has become a member of Universities Research Association.
Pisa has an intense athletic rivalry with the University of Pavia which traditionally culminates in the Pisa-Pavia Regatta (Regata Pisa-Pavia), the oldest competition of this kind in Italy and second in Europe only to the Oxford Cambridge boat race.
In 2011, the University of Pisa came in first place among the Italian universities, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
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