Giustino Fortunato Online University: law, economics and psychology by distance learning from the heart of Campanian Sannio
The Giustino Fortunato Online University is a distance university based in Benevento, specialising in law, economics, psychology, education sciences and sport sciences. With 20,000 students and 25 programmes, it is a point of reference for online higher education in the Mezzogiorno, named after the great Sannio meridionalist intellectual.
Giustino Fortunato: southern Italian online university for working adults and public sector professionals
The Giustino Fortunato Online University is a distance university legally based in Benevento, specialising in law, economics, psychology, education sciences and sport sciences. With approximately 20,000 students and 25 degree programmes, Giustino Fortunato is one of southern Italy's main online universities, with a consolidated tradition of serving working students from the Mezzogiorno wishing to improve their professional qualifications.
The university is named after Giustino Fortunato (1848-1932), a Sannio intellectual, politician and meridionalist — one of the most lucid analysts of the Italian Southern Question. This tribute reflects the institution's rootedness in the Campanian and Sannio territory and its mission to contribute to the cultural development of southern Italy through accessible higher education.
The teaching model is entirely distance-based, with e-learning platforms accessible from any device. 55% of students are female, with a strong presence of teachers and public sector professionals from the South. The employment rate is 65%. 1% of students are international.
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From 2006 to Benevento: the Sannio online university for the cultural renewal of the Mezzogiorno
The Giustino Fortunato Online University was founded in 2006, within the Italian regulatory framework governing distance universities. The choice of Benevento as headquarters — the ancient Sannio capital with a millennial history, land of the ancient Lombards and birthplace of Giustino Fortunato — reflects the founders' desire to root the institution in the cultural tradition of the Sannio and Campania.
Over its nearly twenty years of activity, Giustino Fortunato specialised in serving the specific Mezzogiorno market — working students, in-service teachers, public employees — who face difficulties accessing traditional universities due to distance, schedules or family commitments.
The institution's name — dedicated to Giustino Fortunato, the great Sannio thinker who devoted his life to analysing the Southern Question — symbolises the university's vocation: bringing higher education to areas furthest from the major northern university centres, contributing to reducing the cultural gap across different Italian regions.
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