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Overview

  • Place of teaching Bologna
  • Language Italian, English
  • Type of access Open access with assessment of personal competencies
  • Degree type One or more curricula provide double/multiple degree
  • Learning activities Course structure diagrams

The programme covers ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary history, including cultural areas such as the Middle East, Asia and Africa. It combines different historical disciplines in a comprehensive view of world history, from its origins to the present day.

What will you study?

The topics range from political history to institutional structures, economic and settlement systems, legal systems, ideological, religious, cultural and gender aspects, intellectual history, history of colonisation and of cultural relations between Europe, Asia and Africa.

Experiences abroad

The programme offers double degree programmes thanks to agreements with universities in France, Germany and Sweden. It also offers the possibility of studying abroad with the Erasmus+ and Overseas schemes.

Build your own future. This is what you can do with this degree.

5 reasons to enrol on the degree programme

A law school of excellence, among the top 10 in the EU and the top 50 in the world.

You can choose from three curricula in different fields so as to choose the path that best suits your interests.

Not-just-Europe. You will study the cultures of Asia and Africa to understand the world around you.

In Bologna it's a different story: discover an educational offering with interdisciplinary approaches to political, social, economic, environmental and gender history.

Enhance the cultural heritage: become a historian, science communicator, librarian, archivist, museum curator or teacher.

The course in numbers

  • 67% International students and students not residing in the region

  • 47% Graduates aligned to the exam schedule

  • 26% Graduates with experience abroad

  • 92% Graduates satisfied with their studies

  • 50% Graduates who are working

  • 29% Graduates who are not working but are studying or not looking for work

  • 21% Graduates who are not working but looking for work

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