University of Bari
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro | |
University of Bari Aldo Moro campus | |
| Latin: Universitatis Barensis | |
| Motto | Et lucem sed aliam reddit |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1925 |
| Rector | Roberto Bellotti |
| Students | 49,000 |
| Location | , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Sports teams | CUS Bari |
| Affiliations | UNIMED, GUIDE |
| Website | www.uniba.it |
The University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italian: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro) is a public higher education institution founded in 1925 in Bari, Apulia in Southern Italy. The university has a student population of around 40,000.
On 15 January 2010, the university changed its name to honour the statesman and prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–1978), a student of law there until 1939 who then served as ordinary professor of philosophy of Law and Colonial Policy (1941) and of Criminal Law (1942). He was Prime Minister of Italy for five terms in the 60s and 70s.