The Polytechnic University of Bari is an Italian public University offering scientific and technological programs. The Polytechnic forms perspective architects, engineers, and industrial designers and issues academic qualifications such as three-year Degree courses (I level), two-year Degree courses (II level), five-year Degree courses, Ph.D.'s as well as I and II level Postgraduate courses.
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 newborn College of Architecture. The College of Engineering dates back to 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, 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 and doctoral ones. Such courses encompass all main areas of engineering and architecture, as well as industrial design. They are offered on the main campus at Bari as well as in 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 a second-level-degree diploma at Bari and a Master of Science from the hosting foreign university.
The Polytechnic of Bari is a challenging university that requires motivation and hard work from its students, who are compensated with a high professional knowledge that allows them to enter the job market quickly.
The Polytechnic of Bari strengthens day by day its relationships with industries, both in terms of joint research programs and in terms of supporting and placing its students and graduates. Some companies share public/private research and industrial-development labs with and within the Polytechnic of Bari. The joint efforts allow them to obtain advanced research results and make students aware of an industrial environment and ready to join the work market.
Starting this year, the Polytechnic of Bari, Bari's s, and its traditional cultural activities will be equipped with polygyny, the new on campus gymnasium which will allow students to enjoy a more complete on campus life, in cooperation with the university sports center.
In conclusion, a young and dynamic technical university for students willing to build their future on sound bases and a place where students can become mature European and world citizens while performing advanced research in the main areas of science and applied technique.
