A full room, and a public made especially of young people and families. This is how it took place in Piazza Italia, in New York, the evening of presentation of the Bocconi University. The Milanese university met students from high school and universities, together with parents, to tell about its three-year and master degree courses and what it means to study at one of the most international Italian universities.
The evening opened with the greeting of the Consul General of Italy in New York, Giuseppe Pastorelli, who read the numerous participation as a good sign. Bocconi, he recalled, was among the first Italian universities to look abroad and has long been active to attract international students and talents, country by country.
The program was divided into two parts. In the first were presented the athenaeus and its courses of study; in the second they took the word people that those paths have lived them. The presenter asked the room how many high school students were and how many already at university, and remembered that even parents, in an evening like this, have an important role.
The head of three-year degree courses illustrated the identity of the university, born in Milan in 1902 as the first Italian university to offer a managerial training. Today, according to the data of the university, it counts more than 16,000 students, more than one third of them international, and a network of more than 150,000 alumni in the world. The offer includes management, finance, economics, law, political science and artificial intelligence, several of which are entirely in English. In QS World University Ranking 2026, he recalls the athenaeus, Bocconi is fourth in Europe for social sciences and management.
Bocconi students exchanged in American universities, including Princeton and Columbia, available to those present to answer questions. The exchange is one of the strengths of the university, which has agreements with 293 partner universities in 56 countries. A representative of the Alumni community spoke about the network that accompanies graduates: events every month in New York and other cities in the United States and, wherever you go after graduation, a chapter ready to welcome and support your career.
For families, who look at the choice of university also in terms of investment, the materials of the university report some numbers: among the master’s graduates, 94.7% has a job a year after graduation, and a three-year student receives economic support, with a system of grants based on merit and need.
The evening ended with a time of networking, where families and students could speak directly with the speakers and ask their questions. For Bocconi this is also the way to get acquainted abroad: meeting people, listening to doubts and expectations and explaining what it can mean to study in Milan.
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