Student review [#21721] for Aerospace Engineering
at Università di Bologna - UNIBO

I chose this university mainly because it was the closest one to my house in which I could study aerospace engineering. For this degree, the campus is located in Forlì, a city that is very peaceful, also way too much. Activities for students are almost completely absent, and the city is generally quite empty and rainy most of the time. Aerospace engineering is not even located in the new modern campus in the city center with all other faculties, but it is next to the airport, together with Mechanical Engineering. The facilities are okay, but not very modern or spacious, also because the faculty doesn’t count a lot of students. The only study place in the faculty is a small room that some time ago had many broken chairs, that were replaced only because some students posted a paper on the wall asking to have new chairs. The new city center campus and the city libraries are better.
You can find any type of professor: some don’t explain themselves very well their subjects but, fortunately, in the last few years they are starting to be replaced by young professors who have a bit less experience but generally teach better. On the other hand, there are some experienced professors who are very knowledgeable and inspiring: in their lectures, you can feel they are passionate about what they teach and that they care about students. This makes you keen to learn more and more about those particular subjects.
The bachelor’s degree is not international, since the subjects are explained in Italian. I know in the master’s degree there are Erasmus students or full students from abroad because the course is taught in English, but I wouldn’t say the percentage is very high.
A good reason to study at this university is that there are some particular research topics in which the university is very advanced, like aerodynamics and turbulence, thanks to the CICLoPE laboratory in Predappio, which hosts one of the most important wind tunnels in the world. In general, in Italian universities the courses are very theoretical, so if you are looking for something more practical I would not advise you to study in Italy! However, it can on the contrary be a way to improve your theoretical knowledge and develop different skills than those ones you can generally develop abroad.