The University of Padua (Italian Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD), located in Padua, Italy, was founded in 1222. It is among the earliest of the universities and the second oldest in Italy. As of 2003 the university had approximately 65,000 students and according to the 2009 Censis's survey, the University of Padua is the "Best University" among Italian universities with more than 40.000 students.
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The University of Padua (Italian Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD), located in Padua, Italy, was founded in 1222. It is among the earliest of the universities and the second oldest in Italy. As of 2003 the university had approximately 65,000 students and according to the 2009 Censis's survey, the University of Padua is the "Best University" among Italian universities with more than 40.000 students.
The university was founded in 1222 when a large group of students and professors left the University of Bologna in search of more academic freedom ('Libertas scholastica'). The first subjects to be taught were jurisprudence and theology. The curriculum expanded rapidly, however and by 1399 the institution had divided in two: a Universitas Iuristarum for civil law, Canon law, and theology, and a Universitas Artistarum which taught astronomy, dialectic, philosophy, grammar, medicine, and rhetoric. (The two were only reunited into one university in 1813.)
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