The University of Sassari was founded in 1558 by Alessio Fontana, a distinguished gentleman of the Town of Sassari. The official launch dates back to May 1562, when the Jesuits started their activity as scholars and teachers for the local clergy.
This medium-sized University, with over 12,000 students and around 700 scholars, consists of 11 Departments, which also collaborate with several academic and research centers and institutes.
UNITS main campus is based in Sassari (population 130,000), the central city in the North of Sardinia. It lies on a range of hills overlooking the strait between Northern Sardinia and the Southern coast of Corsica. The island enjoys a mild and temperate climate during the whole year, is located in the middle of the Western Mediterranean sea and at a 225m altitude.
The University had promoted its international dimension since its foundation in 1562, when, during the reign of Philip II in the last year of the Council of Trent, "the Jesuit College" was created under the auspices of Alessio Fontana, a collaborator of the then Emperor Charles V. Holding to its historical roots, the University is now starting its journey to become a reformed public University, within a more competitive and global international system, inspired by the principles of autonomy and responsibility it is aware of the richness and complexity of academic traditions and the value of diverse identities. It is choosing a good organization; it fosters the democratic methodology in the election of its administrative bodies; it promotes young people's training. It protects the right to education, and it places the student at the heart of its academic policies, thus promoting culture as a collective value. It champions the constitutional values set for HEI's, the freedom to pursue one's study, research, and teaching careers, ensuring all appropriate and necessary conditions to make them useful. It guarantees autonomy to its facilities in the fields of research, teaching, and service. It promotes all its members' active participation in University life, facilitating their integration with the territory.
UNITS is a space for free research and free teaching, critical sensibility towards knowledge, and disseminating scientific knowledge. It guarantees autonomy to its facilities in the fields of research, teaching, and service. It promotes all its members' active participation in University life, facilitating their integration with the territory.
The main areas of activity of this University, being an HEI, are higher education, scientific and technological research from an international perspective, and the local community's development (the so-called Third mission).
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