Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italian:Università Ca' Foscari Venezia), or simplyCa' Foscari, is apublicresearch university andbusiness school inVenice, Italy. Since its foundation in 1868, it has been housed in theVenetian Gothicpalace of Ca' Foscari, from which it takes its name. The palace stands on theGrand Canal, between theRialto andSan Marco, in thesestiere ofDorsoduro, while the rest of the University is scattered around the historical centre. In addition to the historical centre of Venice, Ca' Foscari also has campuses inMestre andTreviso.
Ca' Foscari was founded in 1868 after the annexation of the Veneto region in theKingdom of Italy as theRegia Scuola Superiore di Commercio (Royal College of Commerce). As such, it is the second oldest business school in the world, after theInstitut Supérieur de Commerce d'Anvers, founded in 1853.[2] Ca' Foscari expanded throughout the 1900s and became a full-fledged university in 1968. It currently has eight departments and almost 21,000 students, and is Venice's biggest university.[1][3]
San Giobbe Campus, Ca' Foscari's Department of Economics.
Ca' Foscari was founded as the "Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio" (Royal College of Commerce) by a Royal Decree dated 6 August 1868, and teaching commenced in December of the same year. The idea of establishing such a school had arisen after the annexation of theVeneto to the newKingdom of Italy in 1866, and was promoted by three people in particular: thepolitical economistLuigi Luzzatti, laterPrime Minister of Italy; Edoardo Deodati,senator of the Kingdom of Italy and vice-president of theprovince of Venice; and the Sicilian political economistFrancesco Ferrara, director of the school for its first thirty years.[3]
The school was the first institute of higher education incommerce in Italy.[5] It also had a diplomatic section to train and educate Diplomats andcommercial consular staff for overseas service and international law. In addition, Ca' Foscari was also created to operate as atraining college for secondary school teachers of commercial subjects. Foreign languages were taught from the start as well as the study of foreign cultures. The school was parallelled only by theInstitut Supérieur de Commerce d'Anvers, founded in 1853 inAntwerp,Belgium.[3] Today, Ca' Foscari is still a specialised university for the study of business economics, humanitites and languages.[4]
San Sebastiano Campus.
Following the establishment of a national syllabus for university teaching in 1935, the Istituto Superiore di Economia e Commercio di Venezia, as it was by then called, was authorised to award four-yearlaurea degrees.[6] In 1968 it obtained university status, and the name was changed to Università degli Studi di Venezia. In the following year two new faculties were created, ofindustrial chemistry and of philosophy and letters.[3]
TheQS World University Ranking by subject has placed Ca’ Foscari of Venice among the top 100 universities in the world for modern languages, among the top 150 in the world for humanities, and among the top 200 in the world for economics and management.[15]
The university also ranked as the third best public university in Italy for their quality of research according toANVUR (the National Agency for the Evaluation of University Research Systems) in 2018.[16]
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^abcdGiannantonio Paladini (1996).Profilo Storico dell'Ateneo (in Italian). Venice: Università Ca' Foscari; cited atProfilo storico. Archived 18 July 2008.
^ab"Home".Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (in Italian). Archived fromthe original on 28 May 2022. Retrieved3 May 2022.
^Kaplan, Andreas (2014). "European management and European business schools: Insights from the history of business schools".European Management Journal.32 (4):529–534.doi:10.1016/j.emj.2014.03.006.
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