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The LUMSA UNIVERSITY was founded in Rome in 1939 and its topographical location in the immediate vicinity of St. Peter’s Basilica is in clear harmony with its Catholic character and principles and its openness to the idea of universal human citizenship.
LUMSA is one of the most important non-state universities of central Italy, with about 8500 students and 500 teachers and professors; it has three Faculties situated in neighbouring locations, and other branches operating in, Gubbio , Palermo e Taranto.
The university is located in the historic centre of Rome and in one of the most beautiful and historically rich areas of the whole of the city. It thus provides its students with the opportunity to avail themselves of the advantages which Rome has to offer.
Rome is the capital of Italy and is in the middle of the peninsula. It is an intersecting point for communications, the seat of government, and the centre of state administration.
The origins of Rome are known to everybody and its ancient history can be read and seen in all the streets and districts of the centre. Its population amounts to three and a half million inhabitants and it covers a vast territory which extends as far as the Tyrrhenian sea.
There is Republican and Imperial Rome with all its monuments: the Roman Forum, Campidoglio, the Trajan Forum, the Colosseum, Circo Massimo, and Castel Sant'Angelo; Medieval Rome and the churches of Santi Cosma e Damiano and S.Maria in Aracoeli, to name only two; Renaissance Rome and the Basilica of St. Peter's, Piazza del Campidoglio, and Piazza Farnese; Baroque Rome and the colonnade of St. Peter's Square and Piazza Navona; and Neo Classical Rome represented by the Fontana di Trevi and Trinità dei Monti. Such architectural achievements surround the university buildings of LUMSA.
Near to the university can be found the Vatican Museums which are open every day to the public, the Apostolic Vatican Library, the Capitoline Museums, the National Museum of Castel Sant' Angelo, and the Academia of Santa Cecilia - a veritable temple of music.