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University of Naples Federico II

The University of Naples Federico II (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) was founded in 1224 by the Emperor Frederick II and is the oldest public, state-chartered university in the world, created to train the administrators of the Kingdom of Sicily… The University of Naples Federico II (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) was founded in 1224 by the Emperor Frederick II and is the oldest public, state-chartered university in the world, created to train the administrators of the Kingdom of Sicily rather than under papal or civic authority. Thomas Aquinas studied there in the thirteenth century. Today it is one of the largest universities in Italy, with around 78,000 students and twenty-six departments spread across Naples and the new San Giovanni a Teduccio campus, which houses an academy run with a major technology company and the university's applied engineering activity. Its research spans medicine and surgery, pharmacy, agriculture at the Portici campus, veterinary medicine, all branches of engineering, physics — with a large INFN presence — chemistry, mathematics, law, economics, and an unusually deep tradition in philosophy and the classics.