# Pisa University System

The Pisa University System (Italian: Sistema Universitario Pisano) is a network of higher education institutions in Pisa, Italy. The following three schools and universities belong to the system:
* Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
* Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
* University of Pisa

## Overview

| Institutions | Abbreviation | Founded | Students | Motto |
| University of Pisa Università di Pisa | UniPi | 1343 | 49,618 | In supreme dignity In supremæ dignitatis |
| Scuola Normale Superiore Scuola Normale Superiore | la Normale | 1810 | 550 | |
| Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna | SSSA | 1987 | 1,652 | Committed to excellence L'eccellenza come disciplina |

## International rankings

* The Academic Ranking of World Universities puts the University of Pisa at the first place in Italy (National Rank # 1) and within the best 30 universities in Europe.
* As part of the Pisa University System, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies has also been mapped by Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings as one of the most important educational institutions in Italy (section on Italy i.e. Top universities and specialisms ), having its Graduate/Postgraduate Profile.
* Also, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies together with Scuola Normale Superiore are named as leading institutions in
* According to QS World University Rankings, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies is part of the initiative Invest Your Talent in Italy which puts Italian graduate programmes on the world's stage.
* The European Research Ranking, a ranking based on publicly available data from the European Commission database puts Pisa University System among the best in Italy and best performing European research institutions.
* La Voce, published a ranking of Italian universities by h-index, where Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies acquires the first (#1) place in Italy.

## Notable alumni and faculty

I. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
* Riccardo Barbieri, physicist
* Luigi Bianchi, mathematician
* Giosuè Carducci, poet and Nobel Prize winner
* Lamberto Cesari, mathematician
* Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, former Governor of the Banca d'Italia, former Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the Italian Republic
* Massimo D'Alema (withdrew), politician, former Italian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Enrico Fermi, physicist and Nobel Prize winner
* Alessio Figalli, mathematician and Fields Medal winner
* Guido Fubini, mathematician
* Giovanni Gentile, philosopher and politician
* Carlo Ginzburg, historian
* Ennio De Giorgi, mathematician, solved the 19th Hilbert problem, won Wolf Prize (1990)
* Giovanni Gronchi, former President of the Republic of Italy
* Fabio Mussi (withdrew), former Italian Minister of the University
* Riccardo Rattazzi, physicist
* Carlo Rubbia, physicist and Nobel Prize winner
* Leonida Tonelli, mathematician
* Vito Volterra, mathematician
* Giancarlo Wick, physicist
* Jiyuan Yu, philosopher
II. Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
* Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy, Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution
* Giorgio Buttazzo, Professor at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
* Antonio Cassese, first President of the International Criminal Tribunal For the Former Yugoslavia
* Sabino Cassese, Professor of Administrative Law and a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy
* Stefan Collignon, professor of political economy
* Giovanni Dosi, economist, co-director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, editor of the Oxford University Press Journal
* Vittorio Grilli, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (government of Mario Monti)
* Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, former president of Finmeccanica
* Enrico Letta, Italian Chamber of Deputies, Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party (Italy), former Prime Minister of Italy
* Antonio Maccanico, Minister in the Italian Republic
* Marcello Spatafora, President of the United Nations Security Council in 2007
* Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and writer
III. University of Pisa
* Francesco Accarigi, professor of civil law
* Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy, studied at the Collegio Medico-Giuridico of the Scuola Normale Superiore
* François Carlo Antommarchi, Napoleon's physician from 1818 to his death in 1821.
* Stefano Arduini, scholar of linguistics, rhetoric, semiotics and translation
* Adolfo Bartoli, physicist, known for introducing the concept of radiation pressure from thermodynamical considerations
* Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri, 19th century surgeon
* Enrico Betti, mathematician, known for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers
* Luciano Bianciardi, journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels
* Emilio Bizzi, neuroscientist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* Sandro Bondi, politician, Culture Minister in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth cabinet
* Andrea Bocelli, tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist
* Cesare Borgia, Duke of Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafro
* Philippe Buonarroti, 18th century egalitarian and utopian socialist, revolutionary, journalist, writer, agitator, and freemason
* Piero Calamandrei, author, jurist, soldier, university professor and politician
* Andrea Camilleri, writer (ad honorem)
* Francesco Cappè, United Nations official, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
* Adán Cárdenas, President of Nicaragua between 1 March 1883 and 1 March 1887.
* Giosuè Carducci, poet, 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Antonio Cassese, jurist who specialized in public international law, President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
* Sabino Cassese, Professor of Administrative Law and a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy
* Benedetto Castelli, mathematician
* Bonaventura Cavalieri, mathematician, known for his work on the problems of optics and motion
* Carlo Chiti, Italian racing car and engine designer, best known for his long association with Alfa Romeo's racing department
* Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 73rd former Prime Minister of Italy, tenth President of the Italian Republic
* Pope Clement XII
* Mauro Cristofani, linguist and researcher in Etruscan studies
* Massimo D'Alema, former 77th Prime Minister
* Luigi Fantappiè, mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and for creating the theory of analytic functionals
* Enrico Fermi, physicist, 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity
* Lando Ferretti, journalist, politician and sports administrator
* Alessio Figalli, mathematician and Fields Medal winner
* Clara Franzini-Armstrong, FMRS an American electron microscopist, and Professor Emeritus at University of Pennsylvania.
* Guido Fubini, mathematician
* Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution
* Luca Gammaitoni, scientist in the area of noise and nonlinear dynamics
* Giovanni Gentile, minister and neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher
* Giovanni Gronchi, former President of the Italian Republic
* David Levi (Italy), Italian-Jewish poet and patriot
* Lorenzo Magalotti, philosopher, author, diplomat and poet
* Girolamo Maggi, 16th century scholar
* Paolo Malanima, Italian economic historian
* Mario Monicelli, film director
* Alessandro Natta, politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1984 to 1988
* Jože Pirjevec, Slovene historian from Italy, diplomatic historian of the west Balkans region, member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
* René Préval, President of Haiti
* Francesco Redi, 17th century physician, naturalist, and poet
* Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Roman Catholic archbishop in the mid seventeenth century
* Luigi Rizzi (linguist), linguist
* Carlo Rubbia, particle physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer
* Giovanni Salvemini, FRS, 18th century mathematician and astronomer
* Carlo Sforza, President of the Italian National Consult, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Adriano Sofri, writer
* Tiziano Terzani, journalist and writer
* Atto Tigri, 19th century anatomist
* Elio Toaff, former Chief Rabbi of Rome
* Vito Volterra, mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.