Università Cattolica Brescia: education, languages and humanities in Italy's Leonessa
The Cattolica's Brescia campus offers 5,000 students and 15 programmes in education sciences, psychology, languages and mathematical sciences. With a 75% employment rate, access to the full Cattolica Erasmus+ network and a campus in Brescia's UNESCO historic centre, it is the natural choice for those wishing to train in teaching and cognitive sciences in Lombardy.
Cattolica Brescia: teacher education, languages and cognitive sciences in Lombardy's second city
The Brescia campus of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is the Milanese university's specialist branch in Lombardy's second city, with approximately 5,000 students and 15 degree programmes in education sciences, psychology, humanities, mathematical and physical sciences, and linguistic sciences. The Brescia campus is known for a strong vocation towards teacher and educator training — an area in which the Cattolica has a consolidated tradition — and towards cognitive and linguistic sciences.
Brescia's position as one of Italy's most industrialised and wealthy provinces gives campus students an excellent professional opportunity context, with career paths not only in teaching and education but also in local companies seeking expertise in training, communication and cognitive sciences. 4% of students are international, with access to the entire Università Cattolica's Erasmus+ network.
The employment rate is 75%. Teaching quality benefits from the methodological and values-based approach of the Cattolica in Milan. The Brescia campus is located in the historic centre of Brescia — a city with UNESCO Heritage status, home to the Roman theatre, the Capitolium and the Old Cathedral — offering students a context of great historical beauty.
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From the 1960s to UNESCO Brescia: the Cattolica and Lombardy's educator training
The Brescia campus of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore was established in the 1960s as a specialist branch of the Milanese university focused on education sciences and humanities. The choice of Brescia — one of Lombardy's most Catholic and industrialised provinces — was consistent with the Cattolica's mission to bring Catholic-inspired higher education to the main cities of northern Italy.
Over the decades the campus expanded its academic offering and built partnerships with local schools, dioceses and companies. The campus's educational vocation — training teachers at all levels as its primary mission — has remained the defining thread of the Cattolica's Brescia identity.
Today the Brescia campus offers quality education in a dynamic city of strong cultural growth, with the newly UNESCO-listed Brescia and its renovated historic centre providing an exceptional backdrop for university life.
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