Year-end balance: students and research on the rise

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Institutional Communication Service

14 December 2020

In the academic year 2020-21, the number of students has grown by 379 units, reaching 3350. 25% study Architecture, 30% Economics, 27% Communication, 14% Informatics and 4% Biomedicine. Competitive research increased to a total of 26 million CHF. Both figures are the highest in USI's history.

26.3% of the students enrolled come from Ticino, 8% from other cantons, 49% from Italy and 17% from other countries. The Academy of Architecture counts 817 students, the Faculty of Economics 1017, the Faculty of Communication, Culture, and Society 898, the Faculty of Informatics 478 and the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences 140. Of the 3350 students enrolled at USI, 2923 are undergraduates (1411 Bachelor students and 1512 Master students); there are 342 PhD students, while 85 students attend a continuing education program (Master of Advanced Studies).

In terms of obtaining competitive research funds, 2020 was a particularly fruitful year for Università della Svizzera italiana. Competitive research is intended as research financed by funds allocated on a competitive basis with other universities by the European Union, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Swiss Innovation Agency - Innosuisse (formerly CTI), the Swiss University Conference, competitive foundations and other institutions. The total obtained by USI in 2020 is 26 million CHF, of which 18.8 million from the SNSF, 3.8 million CHF from the European Union, and 2.5 million CHF from Innosuisse, and 700,000 CHF from other institutions.

Both figures - student numbers and competitive research funding - are the highest in USI's history.