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Libera Università Mediterranea "Giuseppe Degennaro"

University in Casamassima, Italy

The Libera Università Mediterranea "Giuseppe Degennaro" (LUM) is a university in Casamassima, near Bari, in the Puglia region of southern Italy. It was founded in 1995 by Senator Giuseppe Degennaro as the Free Mediterranean University "Jean Monnet", obtained legal recognition from the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research in 2000, and took its current name in 2020, when its faculties became departments.

LUM has four departments: Management, Finance and Technology; Legal and Business Sciences; Medicine and Surgery; and Engineering. Programmes include:

  • Bachelor's degrees in economics and business organisation, Business Economics and Organization, management engineering, biomedical engineering and nursing
  • Master's degrees in economics and management and in management engineering
  • Single-cycle degrees in law, medicine and surgery, and dentistry
  • PhD programmes, the LUM School of Management and medical specialisation schools

Clinical training for medicine takes place at the Regional General Hospital "F. Miulli" in Acquaviva delle Fonti. Double degrees are offered with partner universities including Indiana University's Maurer School of Law (USA), Dublin Business School (Ireland), the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Brazil) and Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Germany). Non-EU applicants living abroad pre-enrol through Universitaly, and students with fewer than 12 years of schooling can take a one-year Foundation Year. LUM also has a School of Italian for Foreigners, a University Language Centre, Erasmus exchanges and an International Students Office.

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Programmes

  • Economia ed Organizzazione Aziendale (bachelor's): management, business administration, digital economy and marketing
  • Business Economics and Organization (bachelor's): international management, international marketing
  • Ingegneria Gestionale and Ingegneria Biomedica (bachelor's)
  • Infermieristica (nursing, bachelor's)
  • Giurisprudenza (law, single-cycle): business law and economics, law and digital innovation, legal professions and judiciary
  • Medicina e Chirurgia (six-year single-cycle, 360 credits) and Odontoiatria e Protesi Dentaria (dentistry)

A one-year Foundation Year prepares international students for bachelor's study in Italy.

Graduate programmes

  • Economia e Management (master's): administration, finance and control; innovation management and digital transformation; public administration and healthcare; digital marketing and retail management; finance; HR management
  • Ingegneria Gestionale (master's)
  • PhD programmes: Economics and Management of Sustainability and Innovation; General Theory of the Process; Translational Medicine and Engineering (MED-TECH); diagnosis, prevention and therapy of epidemic-pandemic infections
  • LUM School of Management and medical specialisation schools

Admission

EU students and non-EU students living in Italy apply through the university portal under the same conditions as Italian students, with no quotas; a valid secondary-school qualification is required and some programmes have an admission test. Non-EU students living abroad must:

  • Pre-enrol on Universitaly
  • Have their academic qualification evaluated
  • Apply for a study visa
  • Provide a language certificate, if required

Applicants without the required 12 years of schooling must first complete the Foundation Year, a two-semester course with an Italian course, academic subjects and at least 85% attendance, starting in the third week of October. The International Students Office helps with requirements, Universitaly and visa documents.

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