Eight Italian university departments are among the top ten in the world, two more than last year. In short, the Italian university is advancing in the international rankings, it shows its excellence, even though the system is underfunded, and the research suffers from lack of stability and the prospects for its brains the best. It is the new edition of the world ranking by 2020, developed by QS Quacquarelli Symonds drawn up for subject areas and subjects.
The guide to the performance of the university in 48 different academic disciplines puts Italy in fourth place as the best university system in Europe, surpassed by France, the Netherlands and Germany and from Switzerland. Among the excellence there is Wisdom with the History Department and Ancient History: it is ranked second in the world behind Oxford in the Classic&Ancient history , losing the primacy of the last year. Behind all this, there is Cambridge, Harvard is ninth.
