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= Overview= University of Foggia (meaning the university of shape) located in Foggia, Italy. was founded in 1991 and was fully recognized in 1999. Although it has taken sometime for the university to receive its entitlement and acknowledgement, through that timestamp it has branched off from 5 Faculties to 6: Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Faculty of the Sciences Of agriculture, Food and Environment and the Faculty of Humanities. Literature, Culture Heritage, Education Sciences. It has also been elected as the best university of southern Italy that was mention by the newspaper "Il Sole 24 Ore”. The Il Sole 24 Ore is a newspaper that has full ownership of the italian employers' federation

Departments
These are the 6 Deparments in which University of Foggia is divided into:

The University divides departments to help students to aid them into the right department as possible of their interests, as well as to avoid confusion. The department of Agriculture was considered much of a large department when the enrolment status began to expand, giving the heads to evaluate what to do with students who had a different mindset on the program.
 * Department of Law
 * Department of Economics
 * Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
 * Department of Medical and [Surgical Sciences]
 * Department of Sciences of Agriculture, Food and Environment
 * Department of Humanities, Literature and Culture Heritage
 * The Faculty of Agriculture is organized in 3 departments:
 * The Department of Production, Engineering, Mechanical and Applied Economical Science for Agro-Zootechnical Systems
 * The Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Chemistry and Plant Protection
 * The Department of Food Science

International Programs
The University itself has agreements with 20 foreign university to accommodate international students, as well as partakes in Socrates/Erasmus,Leonardo and Tempus media programs.

Academic Calendar
The First semester of the Acedemic calander for the University of Foggia starts from the third week of september to the second week of december while the second semester starts from the first week of March and continues to run the the end of May, which continues this cycle each year. Classes tend to run from Monday to Friday, Classes do not run during the month of August as well as on a Bank Holiday. Courses are based on semesters, and within those two semesters there are two holidays around the Christmas and Easter time interval.

Degree System
The degree system is broken down into 3 sub categories which are First-level degrees, Second-level degrees and a master degree which in italian is called a "magistrali"

The amount of degrees within the main 3 are:
 * 22 First-level Degree
 * 10 Second-Level Degree
 * 3 Master Degrees