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Iuss Institute For Advanced Study, Pavia:
Founded in 1997, the Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia (IUSS), a city offering a very special and unique environment due to its "historical colleges", due to the excellent level of the activities promoted and carried out. In 2005 the Institute was recognized by the Ministry of Education, University and Research as a "Scuola Superiore ad ordinamento speciale". Before, this recognition was only awarded to three other Schools devoted to Higher Education in Italy: Scuola Normale di Pisa, Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna and SISSA in Trieste.

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Unique in the completeness of its training fields, which allows a strong interdisciplinary approach, IUSS aims at contributing to the development of talented young people, offering them at any step of their higher education path, highly qualified training programs to enhance their capabilities and knowledge. The Institute is also committed to scientific progress and is therefore involved in preparing young researchers and developing research programs.

IUSS undergraduate Courses are open, on a merit base, to the most promising students of the University of Pavia, selected through a national competition. The undergraduate Courses offer to IUSS students additional classes of high quality education, with an interdisciplinary approach. In this way students follow both University of Pavia and IUSS Classes wich are conceived to complete in a coherent manner the educational programmes offered by the nine faculties of the Unviersity.

The IUSS courses are distributed in four classes of studies:
- Human Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Science and Technologies
- Biomedical Sciences

We offer a range of II Level University Master degrees which are generally fully taught in English and have a strong International Vocation; Our masters provide the best academic background and contact with the business world, in very different fields. Our interdisciplinary and hands-on approach allows our students to be succesful in their future careers. All masters foresee a class chapter and a stage within a company.

We offer Masters in:
- Media Science and Technology
- Materials for micro and nano-Technologies
- Integrated Environmental Management
- Cooperation and Development
- Nuclear and Ionizing Radiation Technologies
- Reduction of Seismic Risk
- Complexity and its Interdisciplinary Applications

We also offer PhD Degrees that provide an interdisciplinary point of view and exposure to cutting edge research.

Pavia is located in Northern Italy, Lombardy, about 35 kilometers south of Milan. Pavia is an ancient university town with fine Romanesque and medieval buildings, crossed by the Ticino river. Placed between Milan, Italy’s industrial and financial heart, and Genoa, a Mediterranean harbour, this town offers excellent living standards.

Pavia’s artistic, cultural and scientific assets, coupled with the availability of valuable human resources and technological infrastructures, and its historic Colleges system make IUSS a natural gateway to advanced education and research.