Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

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name =Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa
native_name =Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento
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motto =Committed to excellence
established =1987 from previously existing institutions
type =State-supported
endowment =
staff =82
president =Prof. Riccardo Varaldo
director =Prof. Maria Chiara Carrozza
students =1,652 (including people attending masters)
undergrad =146
postgrad =86
doctoral =163
city =Pisa
country =Italy
campus =
affiliations =
website = [http://www.sssup.it/ www.sssup.it]
logo =The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa (Italian: "Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento") is a special-statute public university located in Pisa, Italy, operating in the field of applied sciences.

The Sant'Anna is part of the Pisa University System, together with the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa.

Departments

Social science's Departments:
*Economic Science
*Law
*Political Science

Experimental Sciences Departments:
*Agrarian Sciences
*Medicine
*Industrial and Computer engineering

Undergraduate and Graduate

The undergraduate students admitted to the School through a competitive selection. As of 2007, 42 freshmen are admitted per year. The winners are enrolled in the corresponding degree program of the University of Pisa. The School offers all of its services free of charge; students also receive a small monthly income.

While attending the university courses, students ("allievi") live in the school's college. Students have to achieve a high average grade in university exams and attend internal courses (including 2 foreign language classes) taught by professors and researchers working at the School, both as an integration and as an extension to the regular academic schedule. They are free to attend courses provided by departments other than their own, as well as those provided by the Scuola Normale Superiore.

Sant'Anna alumni have formed an association, currently headed by former Italian Minister of the Interior Giuliano Amato. The recently departed Tiziano Terzani - a much missed novelist and explorer of the world and the human soul - was a key member of the alumni association.

The School also runs doctoral programmes, provided by its research laboratories.

Master Courses

The School offers four first level university Masters (Innovation Management, Environmental Control and Management, Human Rights and Conflict Management, Promotion and Control of Quality Agro-industrial Production) and two international Masters (Information Technology and Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Related Anesthesia). The School offers a variable number of additional specialized post-graduate and continuing education programs (around 40 in the academic year 2002 – 2003), organized in response to specific requests from industry and the private sector in collaboration with Italian and foreign universities and with other public and private organizations.

Unlike all other curricula provided by the schools, master courses require payment of fees (with the possible exception of courses deriving from special international partnerships).

Research

The Sant'Anna also maintains a number of research laboratories, some of which are located at the CNR, in the Pisa neighbourhood and Pontedera.

Partnerships exist with many foreign universities, such as Waseda University and Chongqing University.

Mission

As for its statute, the aims of Sant'Anna school of advanced studies are:

*To promote the development of culture, scientific and technological research, and innovation;
*To offer quality undergraduate, graduate and continuing education;
*To ensure high-quality studies through the ongoing interectation of research and instruction.

The mission of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies is to pave innovative pathways in education and research, responding to the modernization and innovation of society itself. This mission is pursued through the valorization of the autonomy and flexibility that characterize the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and that derive from its status as an autonomous university by special statute, operating in the field of applied sciences.

The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies has adopted three principles that constitute the foundation of its mission. Excellence in education, research and in every other activity, ensured by rigorous selection criteria for entering students; by attracting teachers and researchers of high scientific stature; by the elevated quality of facilities and services, thanks to the professionalism of the technical and administrative personnel.

Interdisciplinarity as a cultural and methodological premise for addressing the complex problems of today’s scientific and social realities.

Internationalization, understood as a propensity to cultivate relationships with other institutions at the international level; as an awareness of the problems of education and of cultural growth faced by young people from emerging countries.

History

The basic structure of the School as it is known today was established in 1967 (as the "Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento") by merging the "Scuola per le Scienze Applicate A. Pacinotti" (founded in 1951) and the "Collegio Medico-Giuridico" (which, in turn, was the result of a merger between the pre-war "Collegio Mussolini per le Scienze Corporative" and the "Collegio Nazionale Medico").

The previously existing institutions were created on the model of (and were administered by) the Scuola Normale Superiore. In 1987 the School acquired complete independence both from the Scuola Normale and the University of Pisa. "Sant'Anna" replaced Antonio Pacinotti as dedication in 1987, when the School gained its current headquarters (previously the site of a religious educational establishment).

See also

* List of Italian universities
* Scuola Normale Superiore
* Pisa

External links

* [http://www.sssup.it/ Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa website]