University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bari, Italy — www.uniba.it
- QS Ranking
- #501
- Founded
- 1925
- Type
- Public Research University
- Students
- 55,000+
- Acceptance Rate
- ~45%
- Founded
- 1925 — named for Aldo Moro, martyr Prime Minister and UniBa law professor
- QS Rank
- #501–600 (2025)
- Trulli of Alberobello
- UNESCO-listed dry-stone beehive houses — 60 km south; one of Italy's most extraordinary cultural landscapes
- Orecchiette
- Puglia's signature pasta — still made by hand on Bari Vecchia's streets daily
Overview
The University of Bari Aldo Moro (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, UniBa), founded in 1925 and named for Aldo Moro — the Italian Prime Minister kidnapped and murdered by the Red Brigades in 1978, who was a professor of law at this university and its rector — is one of southern Italy's largest and most important universities, ranked #501–600 in QS 2025. With 55,000+ students, it is the largest university in Puglia and one of Italy's ten largest universities. Bari — the capital of Puglia, the heel of Italy's boot — is a city of extraordinary character: the Basilica di San Nicola (built 1087 to house the relics of Saint Nicholas of Myra — the historical model for Santa Claus, his bones brought by Bari merchants from Myra in Asia Minor after the Arab conquest — one of southern Italy's most important Romanesque-Byzantine pilgrimage churches), the Bari Vecchia (the old city — a labyrinthine medieval quarter of narrow streets and ancient churches, where elderly women sit outside making orecchiette pasta by hand), and the Lungomare Nazario Sauro (the Mediterranean seafront promenade — 10 km of palms, sea, and Adriatic light). Puglia is Italy's most underrated region: extraordinary Norman, Byzantine, and Arab architecture (Castel del Monte — Frederick II's 13th-century geometric masterpiece, UNESCO-listed), the Valle d'Itria's trulli (the extraordinary beehive-shaped dry-stone houses of Alberobello — UNESCO-listed), and Italy's fastest-growing wine region (Primitivo, Negroamaro, Nero di Troia).
Admission Process
Apply via uniba.it or Universitaly. TOLC tests for medicine, science, and engineering. Non-EU: Universitaly. English-medium programmes available. IELTS 6.5+. Deadlines: April–July. Medicine has national competition; other faculties broadly accessible.
Programs at University of Bari Aldo Moro
- MSc Computer Science (Master's) — 2,000 EUR/year
- Master of Business Administration (Master's) — 3,000 EUR/year
- MSc Data Science & AI (Master's) — 5,000 EUR/year
- Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) (Bachelor's) — 8,000 EUR/year
- Master of Science in Engineering (Master's) — 2,000 EUR/year
- PhD in Natural Sciences (PhD) — 3,000 EUR/year
- BSc Computer Science (Bachelor's) — 2,000 EUR/year
- BSc Business Administration (Bachelor's) — 3,000 EUR/year
- BSc Economics (Bachelor's) — 4,000 EUR/year
- BA International Relations (Bachelor's) — 6,000 EUR/year
- BSc Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's) — 9,000 EUR/year
- BSc Civil Engineering (Bachelor's) — 2,000 EUR/year
- BSc Electrical Engineering (Bachelor's) — 3,000 EUR/year
- MBA International Business (MBA) — 20,568 EUR/year
- MSc Artificial Intelligence (Master's) — 9,951 EUR/year