University of Salerno: the largest campus in southern Italy between the Amalfi Coast and Cilento
With 40,000 students and the largest campus in the Mezzogiorno, the University of Salerno is the main university of southern Campania. CENSIS 83.8/100, 74% employment rate, 90 programmes in engineering, economics, medicine, sciences and humanities. Campus immersed in the hills between Salerno, the Amalfi Coast and Cilento National Park.
UniSA: the southern mega-campus between Salerno, the UNESCO Amalfi Coast and Cilento
The University of Salerno is the main university of southern Campania and one of the largest in the Mezzogiorno, with approximately 40,000 enrolled students and 90 degree programmes in engineering, economics, medicine, mathematics and natural sciences, law, humanities, education sciences, political science and communication sciences. The Fisciano campus — inaugurated in the 1980s — is one of southern Italy's largest and most modern.
The CENSIS 2025-2026 score is 83.8/100. The employment rate is 74%, with good prospects for engineering and computer science graduates absorbed by the Campanian manufacturing district. 5% of students are international. The geographical position of the Fisciano campus is extraordinary: on the Salerno hills, a few kilometres from the Amalfi Coast (UNESCO heritage), the ruins of Paestum and the Cilento National Park.
The university has a historic tradition in the Salerno Medical School — the oldest medical institution in western Europe, founded in the 9th century — which represents one of the deepest cultural roots of the modern university. Studying in Salerno means connecting with a thousand-year tradition of medical and scientific knowledge.
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From the Salerno Medical School to the Fisciano campus: a thousand years of knowledge in the Mezzogiorno
The University of Salerno, in its modern form, was founded in 1970, but its cultural roots go back to the legendary Salerno Medical School, founded in the 9th century and considered the oldest medical training institution in western Europe. The Salerno Medical School was the first place in the world where medicine was taught as a secular and rational discipline, independent of religion.
During the twentieth century Salerno developed a modern university, which in the 1980s moved to the large Fisciano campus — designed as a self-sufficient university city, with residences, canteens, libraries and sports facilities — one of the most extensive campuses in the Mezzogiorno.
Today the University of Salerno is a comprehensive academic hub serving all of southern Campania and the neighbouring provinces of Naples, Avellino, Potenza and Cosenza. Its setting between the Salerno sea, the Amalfi Coast and Cilento makes it one of Italy's university seats with the most extraordinary natural context.
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