With its 5 campuses, its 12 faculties and around 40,000 students, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is the most important Catholic higher education institution in Europe and the only university in Italy to have campuses covering the whole country. The education offered focuses on development of the whole person through meaningful experience of all aspects of university life: - the educational offerings, wide ranging and covering multiple disciplines, are accessible through 42 undergraduate programmes, 48 graduate programmes and over 100 first and second level Specialising Master’s programmes; - last year alone, research funding reached Euro 31,2 million and scientific publications totalled 4,500; - the university provides high quality services to student and their which deal with both the right to education and to housing; - the university has built up a worldwide international network of prestigious universities which allows for outbound and inbound mobility options. Moreover, opportunities for academic development do not finish with the award of a qualification. Università Cattolica offers continued support through postgraduate studies and dialogue between alumni and enrolled students.