Shanghai – The University of Pisa is featured in te prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (www.shanghairanking.com/), drawn up by the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. This of 2015 is the 13th edition. The University of Pisa is among the 150th and the 200th place in the world, along with the Universities of Milan, Padua, Rome “La Sapienza” and Turin, but comparing the individual institutions Pisa is actually in second place, behind La Sapienza. Lower still, between 201 ° and 300 ° place, come the University of Bologna, Florence and Milan Polytechnic, while other 12 universities are among the 301st and 500th place. The University of Pisa confirms its tradition of excellence with regard to the macro sector of Natural sciences and mathematics, where it ranks between the 101st and the 150th in the world, in the disciplines of: mathematics, first in Italy, and between the 76th and the 100th place in the world; physics, between 101st and 150th; and chemistry between 151st and 200th. In general, Italy had 20 universities in the top 500 in the world, losing a one compared to last year, in a ranking dominated by US universities (with 146 universities among the top 500), followed by Germany (39), the United Kingdom (37) and China (32). (9colonne)
