University of Milan-Bicocca

The University of Milano-Bicocca has its origins from the splitting of the University of Milan, which with about 90,000 students in the 1990s was becoming overcrowded. A large area in the north of Milan, Bicocca, was chosen as the location for the new university. This area was occupied by the Pirelli industrial complex until the 1980s and the new campus was part of a larger urban renewal project. The university was officially established on 10 June 1998.

Milan-Bicocca is a multidisciplinary university which offers a wide range of academic programs in different disciplinary fields: Economics, Informatics, Statistics, Law, Education, Sociology, Medicine and Surgery, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astrophysics, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Biotechnology and Psychology.

The university's Marine Research and Higher Education (MaRHE) Centre was opened in 2011 in Magoodhoo, Faafu Atoll in the Maldives. An article in the Maldives Independent noted that no Maldivian has graduated from the university in the fifteen years since the opening of the Centre. This is in part due to the university requiring students to fulfil an upper-intermediate Italian language course, without the possibility of reading prerequisite or lower-level courses. Furthermore, very few Maldivians have been included as co-authors on research papers by the centre.