In 2021, the university had approximately 72,000 students including undergraduates, postgraduates, and doctoral students.

History

The university is conventionally said to have been founded in 1222 when a large group of students and professors left the University of Bologna in search of more academic freedom ('Libertas scholastica'), although it is certain that schools of law and medicine with students from various nations existed near Padua

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