University of Milano-Bicocca

With the main buildings located in the north-east of Milan, close to the Greco Pirelli railway station, the University of Milano-Bicocca benefits from excellent access routes.

Since 1998, the University has laid the foundations for the future, revitalised the local area and turned young students into well-prepared adults, ready to face the real world.

Foundation and development

In the late 1980s, the academic bodies of the University of Milan set out a programme designed to obtain new premises to use for innovative research activities in strategic sectors and extend the teaching offering to fields of discipline that were absent from the local public institutions.

Through the 1991-93 three-year plan announced by Minister Ruberti, the Ministry of Universities and Scientific Research unveiled plans to split universities with over 40,000 alumni in order to better organise its multi-year development plans and bring about decongestion. The University of Milan – which was identified as one of the large universities in need of decongesting – was authorised to set up additional university hubs in the local urban area.

Under the 1993 Budget, Article 3 of Law 498 authorised social security bodies to purchase real estate to lease to universities and public research bodies, using up to 20% of funds available for 1993 and 1994.

In September 1993, the Municipality of Milan ruled that the Bicocca area would be the location of the new University of Milan hub.