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Facts at a Glance

Faculty & Students on 2012

    Architecture   Design   Engineering
Professors & Researchers   304   122   960
Students   9,689   4,183   23,754

Percentages

  • 22% of architects in Italy graduated from the Politecnico di Milano
  • 44% of designers in Italy graduated from the Politecnico di Milano
  • 14% of engineers in Italy graduated from the Politecnico di Milano

Internationalisation of Students

  • 1,480 at BSc
  • 1,816 at MSc
  • 290 PhD

Total 4,423

Human Resources, 31/12/2011

Professors and Assistant Professors   1,386
Technical and Administrative staff   1,181
PhD students   1,123
Young researchers without tenure   770
Regular Students   37,626

Bachelor and Master of Science Programmes

29   Bachelor of Science Programmes
35   Master of Science Programmes, of which:
    1 Joint Programme with the University of Genova
17   Programmes taught in English

International Ranking 2012

According to QS World University Rankings among Technical Universities, Politecnico di Milano is

  • 1st in Italy
  • 14th in Europe
  • 48th in the World

Alumni

Living alumni: 160,000

Famous alumni: Enrico Forlanini, Giovanni Battista Pirelli, Gio Ponti, Achille Castiglioni, Giulio Natta (Nobel Prize 1963), Renzo Piano (Pritzker Prize), Aldo Rossi (Pritzker Prize)