University of Teramo

The University of Teramo (Università degli Studi di Teramo) is an Italian public research university located in Teramo, Italy. The academic institution was officially established in 1993 after having been a detached section of the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara for over 30 years.

Background
The University of Teramo, which holds one of the most modern campuses in Italy, offers 5 faculties 24 degree courses, 35 Masters, 6 postgraduate schools and 10 departments. The entire 50,000 sq m of the Coste Sant'Agostino Campus holds the faculties of Law, Communication Sciences, and Political Science. A scientific pole is currently underway and will house the faculties of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture. It consists of a very up-to-date facility of 100,000 sq m which will also accommodate an animal Hospital and a Sanitary Dog Kennel. The Campus and Pole are two realities symbolizing the core areas of the University: the legal, political and communicative areas together with the agro-bio-veterinary area which represent two centers of excellence of the University of Teramo. Communication technologies have always influenced both thought and learning methods. As a result, facilities more and more necessary to the knowledge society such as language, multimedia, television laboratories, the university newspaper, and radio station, have been carried out. The University is living a strong period of internationalization through offering scholarships to students from all over of the world.

Organization
These are the 5 faculties in which the university is divided into:


 * Faculty of Agriculture
 * Faculty of Communication Science
 * Faculty of Law
 * Faculty of Political Science
 * Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Faculty
Amongst the best-known professors who teach or have taught at the University of Teramo there are:


 * Giacinto Auriti
 * Renato Brunetta
 * Rocco Buttiglione
 * Gianni Cuperlo
 * Michel Martone
 * Lorenzo Ornaghi
 * Marco Pannella
 * Roberto Vecchioni