Рим қаласындағы Тор Вергата университеті

Public university in Rome, Italy

Tor Vergata University of Rome, also known as the University of Tor Vergata , is a public research university located in Rome, Italy. Located in the southeastern suburb of Rome, the university combines a liberal arts tradition with emphasis on career orientation in the field of Economics, Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, Natural Sciences, and Medicine. It was established in 1982 with the goal of providing high quality education for students preparing to meet the changing needs and opportunities of the workforce. Furthermore, the university campus was designed to reflect the same atmosphere that students would feel on Anglophone campuses. a professor at the School of Engineering and former vice Rector.

The university takes its name from the 14th century farmhouse "Turris Virgatae" that was owned by the Roman noble Annibaldi family, whose remains lie beneath Villa Gentile on campus.

The university occupies a area outside the Grande Raccordo Anulare highway connection, in the eastern sector of the city. as well as Campus X, a private company. Campus X accommodations, rolled out in October 2010, now consist of over 1300 bed spaces for students and researchers, as well as study rooms, a market, a restaurant, a gym, a music recording studio and many other facilities. Campus X in Tor Vergata, designed and built on the basis of the campus in Berkeley, In an effort to reduce environmental pollution as well as emission of greenhouse gases, Campus X facilities rely on both thermal and photovoltaic solar panels that provide up to 70% of hot water and street lighting needed on campus.

The innovative City of Sport project, designed by the internationally renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, was an integral part of the city of Rome's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics and would have hosted the volleyball, gymnastics, trampoline, and basketball finals. On February 14, 2012, the Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti called an end to the bid, citing uncertain costs and unknown financial benefit. The announcement came a day before the deadline for applicant cities to submit the application files. The project would have transformed the area of south east of Rome. The two main buildings of the project the Sport Forum and Swimming Forum are symmetrical, each of them being about in area and around 75 m in height. The complex, whose construction had begun in April 2007, was to be completed in 2009 in time for the 2009 World Aquatics Championships but is still under construction. The new university tower, located on the opposite side of the road with respect to the City of Sport project, will rise to about 90 meters, whose penultimate floor would host the new administrative office of Tor Vergata, while the top floor would host a wide lobby that would offer panoramic views. The lower floors would welcome other offices. The layer below the tower would accommodate underground parking.

Founded in 1987, The Centre of Economic and International Studies (CEIS) is an internationally recognized research centre within the Faculty of Economics at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. CEIS is engaged in creating and supporting international research and higher learning networking in the major fields of economics. CEIS hosts numerous seminars and conferences bringing together leading economists and experts in academia and government.

In the 2021 Best Global Universities Ranking by U. S. News & World Report L. P., the University of Rome Tor Vergata was ranked 243rd in the world, 106th in Europe and 12th in Italy. On the other hand, according to 2022 QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the university was ranked respectively 494th and 301 350th. But due to the young age of the university, it is for sure important to look at international young university rankings: according to QS World University Rankings' Under 50 2021, the University of Rome Tor Vergata is ranked 71 80th in the world among universities which are under 50 years old. Further international rankings can be found in the table on the right side of the page. Furthermore, the Faculty of Economics in Tor Vergata has been consistently ranked among the top 3 economics departments by La Repubblica newspaper's annual ranking of economic faculties in Italy and currently holds the top spot nationally and 96th worldwide. The school is particularly strong in the field of business, financial economics. In addition, Tor Vergata University of Rome was ranked, in 2020, 101 150th for Automation and Control Engineering as well as for Energy Science and Engineering, and 201 300th for Telecommunication Engineering in the world by ARWU (Shanghai Ranking's Academic Ranking of World Universities). Moreover, it was ranked, by the same ranking organisation still in 2020, 76 100th for Mathematical Sciences and 51 75th for Physical Sciences in the world. The university was ranked 50th in the world in Physics also by Best Global Universities Ranking by U. S. News & World Report L. P. and, more specifically, 201 250th in the world for Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 251 300th for Chemical Engineering. When it comes to its academic performance, Tor Vergata University of Rome was ranked 285th in the world and 9th in Italy for the a. y. 2020 21 by URAP (University Ranking by Academic Performance). In 2020, the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities ranked the university 281st in the world. Moreover, the University of Rome Tor Vergata was ranked, in 2019, 59th among the best 175 young universities in the world which are under 50 years old, for its research outputs, according to 2019 Nature index ranking. In addition, according to the same index rankings, it was also ranked 43rd among the best 50 young universities in the world in physical sciences. Apart from being ranked on the basis of its academic and research outcomes, Tor Vergata University of Rome has been also assessed for employability of students who graduated from the university, and for their average wage. In 2018, Tor Vergata University of Rome was ranked 8th in Italy for average wages of its graduates between 25 and 34 years of age, i. e. 5th in Italy if only public universities are taken into account. Furthermore, it was also determined to be, in 2017, the 2nd university in Central Italy for its graduate employability (i. e. 88.5%), making it comparable, when it comes to employability, to Northern Italy universities.

Research is carried out in 27 departmental and inter departmental research centers. On campus there are also other major research institutions. The new main headquarters of the Italian Space Agency was inaugurated in Tor Vergata on July 25, 2012. Other important national centres include the Tor Vergata research establishment of National Research Council and the National Institute for Astrophysics. The close proximity and research ties with other distinguished research centers that are near campus, such as the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment (ENEA), the European Space Agency Center for Earth Observation and the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics makes Tor Vergata a unique and dynamic research environment. When it comes to its research outcomes, Tor Vergata University of Rome was ranked, in 2019, 18th in Italy and 200 300th in Europe (more specifically 300 400th for total project funding per partner and 100 200th for its total number of projects) among European academic and non academic research institutions, according to the European Research Ranking. It was also ranked in 2014, by the same ranking institution, 31st in Europe with regard to its research diversity index. Hand in hand with this aim goes the YUFE Diploma Supplement Track, rolled out in November 2020, a diploma supplement that acknowledges all the activities, projects and accomplishments, such as academic courses, professional training, etc, that students are given the chance to take part in across the various YUFE universities. Tor Vergata University of Rome is, at the moment, the only university in Italy that is part of the alliance. as well as of the Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA).