Beschreibung
The Polytechnic of Bari is a research University that, according to Italian laws, focuses its activity upon the studies of Engineering and Architecture; it is one of the three Italian Polytechnics and the only one in the South of Italy. It was born in 1990, by combining the College of Engineering of the University of Bari and the new born College of Architecture. The College of Engineering dates back in 1943/44, and its first courses were offered while Italy was still divided during the second world war. Many faculty members of the Polytechnic of Bari are top international scientists in several research areas, both traditional engineering ones and innovative ICT ones. The students at the Polytechnic of Bari exceed 11,000 in number and are enrolled in first- and second-level degree courses as well as doctoral ones. Such courses encompass all main areas of engineering and architecture, as well as industrial design, and are offered in the main campus at Bari as well as in the Taranto’s one. Students at the Polytechnic of Bari can spend extended periods abroad within several cooperation programs with outstanding foreign universities. In some cases, there are Double Degree programs that allow students to obtain at the same time the second-level-degree diploma at Bari and a Master of Science from the foreign hosting university.