History
Established in 1987, Sant’Anna School rapidly affirmed as a dynamic and strongly innovative institution amongst Italian and international universities, a learning community in which faculty and students closely interact to address frontier research topics with an interdisciplinary approach.
Education
Sant’Anna offers training programmes to undergraduates and postgraduates, which are accessed by way of a competitive selection process in order to guarantee the level of excellence that the School pursues at an institutional level. The education offer is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach in a context of continuous cultural exchange between faculty and students. Sant’Anna is an international community: 30% of PhD students and many researcher come from abroad.
Research
Scientific research represents a key lever for the School, that is reflected on training programmes. Research is conducted within the Institutes and the Labs enhancing the relationship between training and research, interdisciplinary teaching and interaction with the cultural, social and economic world. The scientific community of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies counts over 400 people including teaching staff, research staff, research fellows, collaborators and PhD students. Half of them are research fellows and PhD students.
Short Courses
Campus life
The main buildings of Sant’Anna School are located in Pisa, one of main cities in Tuscany.