University of Cassino and Southern Lazio: engineering, economics and law between Rome and Naples
The University of Cassino is a small state university between Rome and Naples, with CENSIS 84.3/100, 9,000 students and 30 programmes in engineering, economics, humanities and law. Campus near the Abbey of Montecassino, a historic symbol of European peace. 74% employment rate and living costs among Lazio's lowest.
UniCas: engineering and economics in southern Lazio, between Rome, Naples and the Abbey of Montecassino
The University of Cassino and Southern Lazio is a small state university in Cassino, in the Frosinone province, a historic crossroads between Rome and Naples. With approximately 9,000 enrolled students and 30 degree programmes in civil, industrial and computer engineering, economics, humanities and law, it covers the educational needs of southern Lazio and upper Caserta. The CENSIS 2025-2026 score is 84.3/100.
Engineering is the university's strength, with programmes in civil, mechanical, computer and industrial engineering tightly connected to the local productive fabric — including major companies such as Tekima/Stellantis Cassino and the Frosinone industrial cluster. The Faculty of Humanities has a strong tradition in medieval studies and the cultural borderlands between northern and southern Italy.
The employment rate is 74% and 4% of students are international. Cassino is world-famous for the Abbey of Montecassino — a symbol of European reconstruction after World War II — and for the Battle of Cassino. The university campus stands at the foot of the hill on which the Abbey rises.
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From 1979 to Montecassino: the University of Cassino and the renaissance of southern Lazio
The University of Cassino was born in 1979 as the Istituto Universitario di Cassino, aiming to provide the Frosinone area and southern Lazio with an autonomous university, reducing dependence on Rome's universities. The choice to focus on engineering was consistent with the presence in the area of the major FIAT/Stellantis plant at Cassino — one of Europe's largest.
During the 1980s and 1990s the university expanded its offering to include economics, humanities and law. Its privileged geographical position — halfway between Rome and Naples, on the Autostrada del Sole — always guaranteed a wide and diverse catchment area.
Cassino is a place rich in historical significance: the Abbey of Montecassino, founded by Saint Benedict in 529 AD and destroyed by Allied bombing in 1944, is one of the most powerful symbols of European destruction and post-war reconstruction. Studying at the University of Cassino means living in a place of profound historical memory.
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