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second world war; Enrico Forlanini and later Luigi
Dadda, pioneers in aviation and computerization; Giulio
Natta, one of the fathers of the industrial synthesis of
polymers and the Nobel Prize laureate in 1963 (see
box); Renzo Piano, a world famous architect active
today, who needs no introduction. And, today,
numerous top managers from leading and most
innovative Italian Companies are also graduates from
the Politecnico.

More generally, Its over 10,000 yearly graduates in
engineering, architecture and design, are most
appreciated in Italy and internationally for their technical
excellency and broad horizons. In fact, in addition to
mere technical education, our Politecnico offers a
broad training to prepare its graduates to manage the
complexities and interdisciplinarities of today’s world, to

The Politecnico di Milano’s reputation
has risen in recent years to be ranked as
one of the top 10 European Universities
ur Politecnico di Milano, founded in for Engineering an Architecture
1863 and now in its 154 academic
th
year, is the largest Italian technical
university for engineering,
architecture and design, and it is open the minds towards diversity, with attention to
Oone of the best scientific and social issues and above all towards innovation. Post-
technical universities in the world, according to graduate classes predominantly in the English language
numerous qualified rankings (see box). are just one of the many contributions to this long-term
To date it has graduated 185,000 architects and goal.
engineers, ranging from many founders of the Italian Today, Politecnico di Milano has 42,000 students in
industry and architectural prowess as we know it today: every engineering and architectural discipline.
to name just a few, Giuseppe Colombo, one of
Politecnico’s founders and the pioneer of electrical
power in Italy, who built in Milan in 1882 the first power Measuring success
plant in Europe and later founded Edison, still today one But how can one measure the success of such an
of the leading European power utilities; Giovanni university? We offer a few considerations:
Battista Pirelli, the founder in 1872 of one of the world • 63.7 % of new graduates find a job within two
leading tire manufacturing companies, which still carries months and 92.2% within 6 months of graduation
its name; the architect Gio’ Ponti, who contributed in a (2014 data)
unique way to the birth of Italian design after the • The number of applications per available place

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