| University Carlo Cattaneo (LIUC) | |
| Native Name: | Libera Università Carlo Cattaneo (Italian) |
| Established: | 1991 |
| Type: | Private |
| President: | Riccardo Comerio[1] |
| Vice-President: | Vittorio Gandini |
| Rector: | Federico Visconti |
| Undergrad: | 2,327 (2019)[2] |
| Postgrad: | 867 (2019)[3] |
| City: | Castellanza |
| Country: | Italy |
| Athletics Affiliations: | CUS Milano[4] [5] [6] |
The Carlo Cattaneo University (Italian: Libera Università Carlo Cattaneo, LIUC) is a proprietary, for-profit university located in Castellanza, Italy.
It was founded in 1991, by around 300 entrepreneurs,[7] as a joint venture between Italian corporations who provided the initial funding and continued to provide support and guidance under the seal of the Industrial Association of the Province of Varese (UNIVA). The university, housed in a restored nineteenth century cotton mill, is organized into three Faculties (Business & Economics, Business Law and Management Engineering). The university is named after Carlo Cattaneo, a nineteenth-century local thinker and economist.Evolution of course offerings:
LIUC is located within the historic structure of an industrial complex, the Cantoni cotton mill, born around 1830, and that later became full of industry. The restoration and rehabilitation of the former spinning workshop were commissioned by the Union of Industrialists of the Province of Varese.
To date, the factory buildings have been the home to the University Campus. The covered area of the University is 68,000 square metres; classrooms with a total of 3,000 seats, a lecture hall of more than 300 seats, five workshops, a library of 1,600 square metres with 100,000 volumes and a rich collection of periodicals, an auditorium with 100 seats, a cafeteria dedicated to student activities, experiential workshops and home to various events.
The Campus of LIUC also has a university residence, named after the Castellana industrialist, Luigi Pomini, with 440 beds and a total area of 10,800 square metres that accommodates both Italian and foreign students.
The university campus complex comprises also a green space: LIUC park, of 26,000 square metres, the location is utilized for conducting the annual Degree ceremony.[8]
Faculty of Business & Economics
Faculty of Engineering
It is one of the three Italian Universities (together with SDA Bocconi and Università Cattolica) part of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness's network teaching Michael Porter's Microeconomics of Competitiveness graduate class.[9] In 2015 the Italian economic newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore placed LIUC university as third best private economic school in Italy by didactics, and fifth taking into account also research.[10] However, the university is not ranked among "QS Top University"'s ranking[11]
Biblioteca Mario Rostoni was established in 1991[12] and is the academic library affiliated with “‘’University Carlo Cattaneo’’”. It counts as much as 110,000 volumes[13] which comprise ebooks, paper books, magazines, financial statements, and databases of economy, management, law e engineering.
Alumni - Students and researchers who attended at least 1-year at the University Carlo Cattaneo participate in the LIUC Alumni Association.
Leo Club - Is an extension of Lions International and it is composed by young people. The purpose is organize services to rise money for pro-bono causes.
ESN - Erasmus Student Network is a no-profit international student organisation.
Junior Enterprise LIUC - Offers teams of students with the ability to perform management consulting projects for companies located in Italy and abroad.
ELSA - Is part of European Law Students' Association, the world's largest independent law students' association.