Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Ca' Foscari University of Venice, known in Italian as Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, is a public research university and business school in Venice, Italy, established on 6 August 1868 and counted as the second oldest business school in the world after Antwerp's higher institute of commerce of 1853. It is also the first school of higher commercial education in Italy.威尼斯大学（意大利语 Università Ca' Foscari Venezia，简称 Ca' Foscari）是意大利威尼斯的一所公立研究型大学与商学院，创办于 1868 年 8 月 6 日，是继 1853 年安特卫普高等商学院之后的世界第二早的商学院，也是意大利第一所商业高等学府。两个「最早」为学校的身份定位给出时间坐标。

The university takes its name from the Ca' Foscari palace, a late Venetian Gothic building raised in 1453 for Doge Francesco Foscari, which stands on the widest bend of the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere and has served as the institution's historic seat since the nineteenth century.校名取自福斯卡里宫（Ca' Foscari），这座威尼斯晚期哥特式建筑建于 1453 年，为总督弗朗切斯科·福斯卡里（Francesco Foscari）而建，坐落于大运河最宽阔的弯道处、多尔索杜罗区（Dorsoduro），自 19 世纪起便是学校的历史校址。

Ca' Foscari enrols roughly 21,000 students with about 1,500 faculty and staff, and the four mainstream tables place it at 600th in the QS World University Rankings 2027, in the 451-500 band of the Times Higher Education ranking for 2027, 932nd in the US News global ranking for 2026-2027 and outside the main list of the Shanghai ARWU for 2026.全校在读学生约 21,000 人，教职工约 1,500 人；四项主流榜单名次为：2027 年 QS 世界大学排名第 600 位、2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名第 451-500 位、2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名第 932 位，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜之外。

History

• The idea of the school arose after the annexation of the Veneto region to the new Kingdom of Italy in 1866, when Venice passed from Austrian rule to the Italian state and the region looked to train its own commercial specialists instead of sending them abroad.建校设想源于 1866 年威尼托地区并入新成立的意大利王国——威尼斯由此脱离奥地利统治转归意大利，当地随即希望自行培养商业专门人才，而不必再把学生送往境外。

• The Royal College of Commerce, or Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio, was established by a royal decree dated 6 August 1868, and teaching began in December of the same year with courses that combined economics, diplomatic sciences and languages.学校以 1868 年 8 月 6 日的皇家法令设立，称「皇家高等商学院」（Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio），同年 12 月开始授课，课程把经济学、外交科学与语言三者结合。

• Three men are named as the founding fathers, the political economist Luigi Luzzatti, later Prime Minister of Italy, the senator Edoardo Deodati, and the Sicilian economist Francesco Ferrara, who directed the school for its first thirty years.三位创办人被列为创校之父：后来出任意大利首相的政治经济学家路易吉·卢扎蒂（Luigi Luzzatti）、王国参议员爱德华多·德奥达蒂（Edoardo Deodati），以及主持校务前三十年的西西里经济学家弗朗切斯科·费拉拉（Francesco Ferrara）。

• Luigi Luzzatti went on to serve as Prime Minister of Italy from 1910 to 1911, one of the founders whose later political career kept the school's name in national public life.卢扎蒂其后于 1910 年至 1911 年出任意大利首相，这位创办人晚年的政治生涯使校名长期出现在国家公共生活之中。

• Doge Francesco Foscari commissioned the palace that gives the university its name in 1453, having bought an earlier building known as the House of the Two Towers and demolished it to make way for the new Gothic residence.总督弗朗切斯科·福斯卡里于 1453 年主持兴建了这所后来为大学命名的宫邸，他先买下原址上名为「双塔之家」的旧宅并予以拆除，再改建为新的哥特式居所。

• Ca' Foscari is described in the university's own historical profile as a Venetian Gothic palace facing the Grand Canal, with its name shortened in the Venetian dialect from casa, meaning house.校方校史资料把福斯卡里宫描述为面向大运河的威尼斯哥特式宫殿；在威尼斯方言中，「Ca'」是「casa」的缩略，意为住宅。

• The school was parallelled in 1868 only by the Institut Supérieur de Commerce d'Anvers, founded in Antwerp in 1853, which gives Ca' Foscari its rank as the second oldest business school anywhere in the world.1868 年时，与该校并列的同类机构只有 1853 年在比利时安特卫普创办的安特卫普高等商学院，这使威尼斯大学成为世界上第二早的商学院。

• The institution was created not only for commerce but also carried a diplomatic section to train diplomats and commercial consular staff for overseas service, alongside a teaching college for secondary-school teachers of commercial subjects.学校不仅服务商业，还设有外交部门以培养派往海外的外交官与商务领事人员，同时兼作商业科目中学教师的师范机构。外国语言与外国文化从建校之初便纳入教学。

• Foreign languages and the study of foreign cultures were taught from the start, and the institution presented itself from the beginning as a national rather than a purely regional body.外语与外国文化研究自建校之初即已开设，学校从一开始就把自己定位为全国性而非单纯地方性的机构。

• A national syllabus for university teaching was introduced in 1935, after which the school, by then known as the Istituto Superiore di Economia e Commercio di Venezia, was authorised to award four-year laurea degrees.1935 年国家颁布大学教学大纲，当时已改称「威尼斯高等商业经济学院」（Istituto Superiore di Economia e Commercio di Venezia）的学校获准授予四年制学位（laurea）。

• The institution changed its name more than once, from the Regia Scuola Superiore di Commercio of 1868 to the Istituto Superiore di Economia e Commercio and finally to the Università degli Studi di Venezia in 1968.校名历经数次更迭：1868 年的「皇家高等商学院」，到「高等商业经济学院」，最终于 1968 年定名为「威尼斯大学」（Università degli Studi di Venezia）。

• Full university status arrived in 1968, and in the following year two new faculties were created, one of industrial chemistry and one of philosophy and letters, broadening the school beyond its commercial origins.1968 年学校取得完整的大学地位，次年新设工业化学与哲学文学两个学院，使办学范围超越最初的商科本源。

• Among the rectors recorded by the university are Gino Zappa, the accounting scholar who led it in 1941 and 1942, Paolo Costa from 1992 to 1996, Carlo Carraro from 2009 to 2014 and Michele Bugliesi from 2014 to 2020.校方记载的历任校长包括 1941 年至 1942 年任校长的会计学家吉诺·扎帕（Gino Zappa）、1992 年至 1996 年任职的保罗·科斯塔（Paolo Costa）、2009 年至 2014 年任职的卡洛·卡拉罗（Carlo Carraro），以及 2014 年至 2020 年任职的米凯莱·布列西（Michele Bugliesi）。

• Tiziana Lippiello, a sinologist, became Ca' Foscari's first woman rector on 1 October 2020 and held the office until 2026, also serving as president of the EUTOPIA alliance in 2023 and 2024.汉学家蒂齐亚娜·利皮耶洛（Tiziana Lippiello）于 2020 年 10 月 1 日出任校长，成为该校首位女性校长，任期至 2026 年，并于 2023 年至 2024 年担任 EUTOPIA 联盟主席。

• Marco Sgarbi, a historian of philosophy, succeeded her as rector on 1 October 2026, continuing the office into the university's 158th academic year.哲学史学者马尔科·斯加尔比（Marco Sgarbi）于 2026 年 10 月 1 日接任校长，把这一职务延伸至学校的第 158 个学年。

• The university now runs eight departments together with three schools and one business school, a structure that has replaced the original single commercial college of the nineteenth century.学校现设 8 个系、3 个学院与 1 所商学院，这一结构已取代 19 世纪最初单一的商业学院建制。

• Ca' Foscari hosts eight strategic research centres, among them the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, the European Centre for Living Technology and the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities.学校设有 8 个战略性研究中心，其中包括欧洲-地中海气候变化中心（CMCC）、欧洲生命技术中心（ECLT）与威尼斯数字与公共人文学中心。

• Four of its departments have been recognised by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research as Departments of Excellence for the quality of their scientific projects, a designation attached to the university's research profile.其中 4 个系因科研项目质量获意大利教育、大学与研究部认定为「卓越系」，这一称号已与学校的科研形象紧密相连。

• The university joined the EUTOPIA alliance, one of the first university networks funded under the European Universities Initiative, when it was established in 2019, and it now numbers ten European partner universities.学校在 2019 年 EUTOPIA 联盟成立时即加入，该联盟是欧洲大学倡议首批资助的高校网络之一，现由十所欧洲大学组成。

• Ca' Foscari celebrated its 158th academic year in 2025 and 2026, recording 6,750 new first-year enrolments and a rise of eight per cent in master's degree admissions over the previous year.学校在 2025 至 2026 学年迎来第 158 个学年，当年新生注册 6,750 人，硕士课程录取较上一年增长 8%。

• Its alumni association counts more than 29,000 members with about 90,000 contacts across ninety countries, a network the university presents as one of its principal international assets.校友会拥有逾 29,000 名会员，联系网络覆盖 90 个国家的约 90,000 名校友，学校把这网络列为最重要的国际资产之一。

Academics

• Teaching and research are divided among eight departments, covering economics, management, philosophy and cultural heritage, environmental science, computer science and statistics, molecular science and nanosystems, linguistic and comparative cultural studies, humanities, and Asian and Mediterranean African studies.教学与研究分布于 8 个系，涵盖经济学、管理学、哲学与文化遗产、环境科学与计算机科学与统计学、分子科学与纳米系统、语言学与比较文化研究、人文，以及亚洲和地中海非洲研究。

• Three schools join the departments, and a dedicated business school, the Ca' Foscari Business School, carries forward the university's original commercial mission within the modern structure.在 8 个系之外另设 3 个学院；专门的卡福斯卡里商学院（Ca' Foscari Business School）在现代建制中延续了学校最初的商科使命。

• The university's teaching rests on three pillars, economics and business, the humanities, and modern languages, a combination it traces directly to the founding course of 1868.学校教学建立在三大支柱之上——经济与商业、人文、现代语言，它把这一组合直接追溯到 1868 年的创校课程。

• More than forty languages are taught at Ca' Foscari, supported by a dedicated language centre, which sustains the institution's long tradition of European, Near and Middle Eastern and Asian language study.学校教授 40 余种语言，并由一个专门的语言中心提供支持，延续其涵盖欧洲、近东、中东与亚洲语言的长期传统。

• The university offers thirty-seven master's programmes and twenty-seven double or joint degrees, and its curriculum is enriched by workshops and courses in innovative teaching.学校开设 37 个硕士项目与 27 个双学位或联合学位项目，课程辅以创新教学的工作坊与研讨课。

• Its community includes about 1,400 faculty, researchers and staff, reinforced each year by around 100 visiting professors drawn from partner institutions abroad.学校群体包括约 1,400 名教师、研究人员与职员，每年另有约 100 名来自海外伙伴院校的访问教授加入。

• Enrolment stands at about 21,000 students, among whom 1,500 international students arrive each year, and the university awards roughly 5,000 degrees a year.全校学生约 21,000 人，其中每年接收 1,500 名国际学生，学校每年授予约 5,000 个学位。

• Research is carried out by more than a thousand researchers, and the university ranks first in Italy for funding from the European Research Council and among the top ten institutions in Europe for the number of Marie Curie fellowships it hosts.科研由一千余名研究人员承担，学校在意大利高校中获得的欧洲研究理事会（ERC）资助居首，其承办的玛丽·居里学者奖学金数量在欧洲机构中位列前十。

• Four of its departments carry the national Departments of Excellence designation, and the strategic research centres give the university platforms in climate change, living technology and digital humanities.其中 4 个系获得国家「卓越系」称号，战略研究中心则为学校在气候变化、生命技术与数字人文领域提供了平台。

• Ca' Foscari is one of the three main centres of modern sinology in Italy, alongside Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Naples L'Orientale, and it publishes a journal devoted to Asian studies.威尼斯大学与罗马大学、那不勒斯东方大学并称意大利现代汉学的三大中心，并出版一份专注亚洲研究的学术期刊。

• Ca' Foscari has hosted the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities and the Venice Centre in Economic and Risk Analytics for Public Policies, two of the eight strategic research centres attached to the university.学校设有「威尼斯数字与公共人文学中心」以及「威尼斯公共政策经济与风险分析中心」，两者均属校内 8 个战略研究中心。

• The School for International Education and the university's International College provide pathway and language support for degree-seeking students from outside Italy.国际教育学院（SIE）与学校国际学院为来自意大利以外、拟攻读学位的学生提供衔接与语言支持。

• The Ca' Foscari Challenge School offers postgraduate and executive courses aimed at professionals, extending the university's teaching beyond standard degree programmes.卡福斯卡里挑战学院（Challenge School）面向职业人士开设研究生与高管课程，把学校教学延伸到常规学位项目之外。

• Six libraries serve the university, one of them attached to the historic Palazzo Foscari seats, with collections concentrated in the humanities, economics and Asian studies.学校共有 6 个图书馆，其中一处设在历史悠久的福斯卡里宫，藏书侧重人文、经济与亚洲研究领域。

• AlmaLaurea data show that 77.6 per cent of Ca' Foscari graduates are employed one year after graduation, above the national average of 75.7 per cent, rising to 88.3 per cent five years after graduation.AlmaLaurea 数据显示，威尼斯大学毕业生毕业一年后的就业率为 77.6%，高于 75.7% 的全国平均水平；毕业五年后的就业率升至 88.3%。

Campus

• The main campus occupies the Venetian Gothic palace of Ca' Foscari on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere, between the Rialto and San Marco districts of central Venice.主校区坐落在多尔索杜罗区大运河畔的威尼斯哥特式福斯卡里宫内，位于威尼斯市中心的里亚托与圣马可之间。

• Much of the rest of the university is scattered around the historic centre of Venice, so its buildings sit within the city rather than on a single gated estate.学校其余院系大多散布在威尼斯历史城区，因此其建筑融入城市肌理，而非处在一块封闭的单一校园里。

• Beyond the historic centre the university also has campuses in Mestre, on the mainland, and in the city of Treviso, which together reach students across the wider Veneto region.在历史城区之外，学校还在本土的梅斯特雷（Mestre）与特雷维索市（Treviso）设有校区，服务范围覆盖整个威尼托大区。

• Ca' Foscari presents itself as an urban and civic university, its teaching, research and outreach distributed across the city in constant dialogue with local political and cultural institutions.学校把自己定位为城市型、公民型大学，其教学、科研与外展活动分布于全城，与当地政治文化机构持续互动。

• Six libraries, a university theatre and a university sports centre are spread across the institution's venues, adding cultural and sporting facilities to the academic estate.学校各场所分布着 6 个图书馆、一座大学剧院与一个大学体育中心，为学术设施增添文化与体育功能。

• The Palazzo Foscari faces the widest stretch of the Grand Canal and lies within the UNESCO world heritage site of Venice and its lagoon, a setting the university treats as an open-air research laboratory.福斯卡里宫正对大运河最宽阔的一段，处于威尼斯及其潟湖这一联合国教科文组织世界遗产地之内；学校把这一环境视作露天的研究实验室。

• Venice's status as a capital of art and a crossroads of cultures gives the university a location where humanities, environmental science and cultural heritage research can draw directly on the city itself.威尼斯作为艺术之都与文化交汇点的地位，使学校的人文、环境科学与文化遗产研究可以直接以这座城市为研究对象。

• The distributed campus means students move between historic palazzi, converted buildings and the mainland sites, so campus life is inseparable from the urban life of Venice and its metropolitan area.这种分散式校园让学生往来于历史宫殿、改造建筑与本土校区之间，校园生活因此与威尼斯及其都会区的城市生活密不可分。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place Ca' Foscari at 600th in the world, the position under which this entry is catalogued.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将威尼斯大学列为世界第 600 位，本条目即按此名次收录。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 put the university in the 451-500 band, an improvement on the 501-600 band it occupied in the previous year's table.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把该校列入第 451-500 位，较上一年度的第 501-600 位有所提高。

• The US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 places Ca' Foscari at 932nd in the world, a precise figure within the American table.2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名将威尼斯大学列为世界第 932 位，是该榜给出的精确位次。

• The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2026 does not place Ca' Foscari inside its main list, so the university carries no ARWU band for that year.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名未将威尼斯大学列入主榜，因此该校在该年没有对应的软科档位。

• In the QS rankings the university is described as sitting in the top three per cent of higher education institutions worldwide, a statement drawn from its own institutional profile.在 QS 排名体系中，校方把自身描述为位居全球高等教育机构前 3% 之列，这一表述源自学校自身的机构简介。

• The QS World University Rankings by Subject place Ca' Foscari among the top 100 universities in the world for modern languages, among the top 150 for humanities and among the top 200 for economics and management.QS 世界大学学科排名把威尼斯大学列入现代语言学科世界前 100 位、人文学科世界前 150 位，以及经济与管理学科世界前 200 位。

• The Italian national research evaluation agency ANVUR ranked Ca' Foscari as the third best public university in Italy for the quality of its research in 2018, the year of its most recent such assessment.2018 年，意大利国家大学与科研评估署（ANVUR）按科研质量把威尼斯大学列为意大利第三佳公立大学，这是其最近一次同类评估。

• The university states that it stands first in Italy for European Research Council funding and among the top ten European institutions for the number of Marie Curie fellowships it has attracted.学校称其在意大利高校中获得的欧洲研究理事会资助居首，所获玛丽·居里学者奖学金数量进入欧洲机构前十。

• OpenAlex records 32,903 works and 917,791 citations for Ca' Foscari, the machine-counted research output that underlies its bibliometric profile.OpenAlex 记录威尼斯大学的成果数为 32,903 项、被引次数为 917,791 次，这组机器统计构成其文献计量画像的基础。

• No Nobel Prize, Turing Award or Fields Medal laureate is recorded among the university's faculty or alumni in the material available, so its reputation rests on research quality and subject standing rather than on the three major prizes.在现有材料中，校方教师与校友名录未记载诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其声誉因而建立在科研质量与学科地位之上，而非三大奖项。

Student life

• Ca' Foscari states no single formal motto, presenting instead a mission built around three headings, global community, innovation and inclusion, which it uses in official accounts of its identity.威尼斯大学没有单一的正式校训，而是以「全球社群、创新、包容」三项为标题的使命表述出现在官方对其身份的叙述中。

• About 1,500 international students arrive each year, and the university reaches ninety countries through its alumni network of roughly 90,000 contacts, giving the student body a markedly international character.每年约有 1,500 名国际学生入读，学校通过覆盖 90 个国家、约 90,000 名校友的联系网络延伸至海外，使在读群体带有鲜明的国际化色彩。

• Membership in the EUTOPIA alliance supports student and staff mobility with nine partner universities in Paris, Dresden, Brussels, Gothenburg, Barcelona, Lisbon, Cluj, Ljubljana and Warwick.EUTOPIA 联盟身份支持师生与巴黎、德累斯顿、布鲁塞尔、哥德堡、巴塞罗那、里斯本、克卢日、卢布尔雅那和华威九所伙伴大学的交流往来。

• More than 500 student mobility agreements and over 12,000 internship agreements give students structured routes to study and work periods abroad or in Italian enterprises.学校签有 500 余项学生流动协议与 12,000 余项实习协议，为学生提供结构化的海外学习或在意大利企业实习路径。

• A university theatre and a university sports centre extend student life beyond the classroom, and the annual public engagement programme involves more than 300 events and over 500,000 people.大学剧院与大学体育中心把学生生活延伸到课堂之外，学校每年的公共参与项目包含 300 余场活动、参与者超过 50 万人。

• The Alumni association of Ca' Foscari, with more than 29,000 members, organises networking and mentoring activities that connect current students with graduates across ninety countries.拥有逾 29,000 名会员的卡福斯卡里校友会组织联络与导师活动，把在读学生与遍布 90 个国家的毕业生连接起来。

• Campus life is inseparable from Venice itself, since the university's venues are threaded through the historic centre, Mestre and Treviso rather than gathered in one residential enclave.校园生活与威尼斯本身密不可分，因为学校各场所穿行于历史城区、梅斯特雷与特雷维索，而非集中在单一住宿区。

• The city's standing as a UNESCO world heritage site and a long-standing crossroads of cultures supplies the backdrop for student activities in the humanities, the arts and environmental science.威尼斯作为联合国教科文组织世界遗产地与长期的文化交汇点，为人文、艺术与环境科学领域的学生活动提供了舞台。

Notable people

• Luigi Luzzatti, one of the three founding fathers of 1868, later served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1910 to 1911, linking the school's origins to national politics.1868 年三位创办人之一的路易吉·卢扎蒂，其后于 1910 年至 1911 年出任意大利首相，把学校的创校渊源与国家政治联系起来。

• Francesco Ferrara, the Sicilian economist among the founders, directed the school for its first thirty years and shaped its early curriculum in economics and commerce.创办人中的西西里经济学家弗朗切斯科·费拉拉主持校务达三十年，塑造了学校早期的经济与商业课程。

• Edoardo Deodati, a senator of the Kingdom of Italy and vice-president of the province of Venice, was the third of the founding figures behind the school's establishment.意大利王国参议员、威尼斯省副主席爱德华多·德奥达蒂，是推动学校设立的三位创办人之一。

• Carlo Carraro, an economist and later president of the university from 2009 to 2014, is counted among its prominent academic alumni as well as its office-holders.经济学家卡洛·卡拉罗于 2009 年至 2014 年出任校长，既是学校的知名校友，也是历任主政者之一。

• Tiziana Lippiello, a sinologist who graduated from Ca' Foscari in 1986, became its first woman rector in 2020 and served until 2026.汉学家蒂齐亚娜·利皮耶洛 1986 年毕业于威尼斯大学，2020 年成为该校首位女性校长，任期至 2026 年。

• Marco Sgarbi, a historian of philosophy, took office as rector on 1 October 2026, the latest name in the university's documented line of rectors.哲学史学者马尔科·斯加尔比于 2026 年 10 月 1 日就任校长，是校史记载中的最新一位校长。

• Renzo Rosso, founder of the clothing brand Diesel, is listed among the university's alumni, an entrepreneur whose company became internationally known.服装品牌 Diesel 的创办人伦佐·罗索（Renzo Rosso）被列入该校校友名录，其公司成为国际知名企业。

• Lilli Gruber, a journalist, author and politician, studied at Ca' Foscari and later became one of Italy's best-known television presenters.记者、作家兼政治家莉莉·格鲁伯（Lilli Gruber）曾就读于威尼斯大学，后成为意大利最知名的电视主持人之一。

• Paul Watzlawick, the philosopher and psychologist associated with the Palo Alto school of communication theory, is numbered among the university's alumni.与帕洛阿尔托传播理论学派相关的哲学家兼心理学家保罗·瓦茨拉维克（Paul Watzlawick），亦在该校校友之列。

• Ugo La Malfa, a senior Italian politician of the post-war decades, was educated at Ca' Foscari before entering national public life.战后数十年间意大利的重要政治家乌戈·拉马尔法（Ugo La Malfa）在进入国家公共事务之前曾就读于威尼斯大学。

• Damiano Michieletto, an opera director known for staging work at major European houses, and Giancarlo Ligabue, a palaeontologist and politician, both appear on the university's alumni list.以在欧洲主要歌剧院执导作品闻名的歌剧导演达米亚诺·米凯莱托（Damiano Michieletto），以及古生物学家兼政治家詹卡洛·利加布埃（Giancarlo Ligabue），均在该校校友名录之上。