University of Bologna

The University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy, the oldest university in continuous operation in the world, with teaching beginning around 1088 and a place among the first degree-awarding institutions of higher learning.博洛尼亚大学（Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna，简称 Unibo）是位于意大利博洛尼亚的公立研究型大学，也是世界上持续办学历史最悠久的大学，教学可追溯至 1088 年前后，被视为最早授予学位的高等学府之一。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 123rd in the world with a score of 63.9, and OpenAlex records 230,057 scholarly works with 21,047,310 citations for the institution.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中该校位居世界第 123 位，综合得分 63.9；OpenAlex 收录其学术成果 230,057 篇、总被引 21,047,310 次。

History

• The university's origins lie in the eleventh century, when groups of jurists began annotating the Roman law codes, and the earliest recorded scholars include Pepo, Irnerius and Gratian.学校的历史可追溯至十一世纪，当时一批法学家开始注释罗马法法典，最早有记录的学者包括佩波、依内里奥与格雷茨亚诺。

• On the advice of four students of Irnerius, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa issued a decree in 1158 giving the university freedom from any external authority, which fixed its legal status as a place of study.在依内里奥四位学生的建议下，神圣罗马帝国皇帝腓特烈一世·巴巴罗萨于 1158 年颁布法令，规定大学不受任何外部权力干预，由此确定了其作为独立研究机构的法律地位。

• The date of foundation is uncertain, and in the nineteenth century a committee of historians led by Giosue Carducci traced the university back to 1088, which would make it the oldest continuously operating university in the world, although Paul Grendler notes that enough instruction and organisation to merit the term university may not have existed before the 1150s.学校的确切建校年份存在争议，十九世纪由焦苏埃·卡尔杜奇主持的历史委员会将建校时间上溯至 1088 年，若以此为准即为世界最古老的持续办学大学；不过 Paul Grendler 指出，具备大学实质的教学与组织或许要到 1150 年代才形成。

• The university arose out of mutual aid societies of foreign students, known as universitates scholarium and grouped by nationality, who hired scholars from the city's lay and ecclesiastical schools to teach liberal arts, notarial law, theology and the art of letter writing.学校起于外国学生的互助社团，即按国籍结成的「universitates scholarium」，学生从城中的世俗与教会学校延聘教师，讲授自由艺术、公证法、神学与文书写作术。

• Students exercised collective bargaining power through the threat of strikes, and professors were hired, dismissed and paid by an elected council of two representatives from each student nation, with fines possible when classes were not finished on time.学生以罢课相威胁行使集体议价权，教授由每个学生「民族」各出两名代表组成的选举委员会聘任、解聘并决定薪酬，若未能按时完成课程还可能被处以罚款。

• Bettisia Gozzadini earned a law degree in 1237, one of the first women in history to obtain a university degree, and in 1239 she taught at the university, becoming the first woman in history to teach at a university.Bettisia Gozzadini 于 1237 年取得法学学位，是历史上最早获得大学学位的女性之一；1239 年她进入大学授课，成为历史上第一位在大学任教的女性。

• The university was historically notable for teaching canon and civil law and was set up in large part to study the Digest, a central text of Roman law rediscovered in Italy in 1070, and until modern times the doctorate was the only degree it granted.学校以教授教令法与民法著称，其设立很大程度上是为了研读 1070 年在意大利重新发现的罗马法核心文献《学说汇纂》，直至近代，该校授予的唯一学位仍是博士学位。

• The Spanish College was founded in 1364 as a college for Spanish students and served as a model for colleges built at Salamanca from the fourteenth century and for Spanish universities in later centuries, and it has been funded by the Spanish crown since 1488.西班牙学院于 1364 年为西班牙学生而设，成为十四世纪起萨拉曼卡大学诸学院及此后数个世纪西班牙各大学学院的范本，自 1488 年起一直得到西班牙王室资助。

• In 1563 the Archiginnasio di Bologna became the main seat of the university, serving in that role until 1803, and in the same year a papal bull granted the university the right to confer degrees in all faculties, ending the imperial licence requirement.1563 年博洛尼亚大学学院大楼成为学校本部并沿用至 1803 年，同年教宗诏书授予该校在各学院自行颁发学位的权利，帝国方面的授权不再是必要条件。

• In 1711 Luigi Ferdinando Marsili convinced Pope Clement XI to fund the Observatory of Bologna, the first public astronomical observatory in Italy, which became a centre for astronomers such as Eustachio Manfredi and Giovanni Battista Guglielmini in the eighteenth century.1711 年路易吉·费尔迪南多·马尔西利说服教宗克勉十一世出资设立博洛尼亚天文台，这是意大利第一座公共天文台，十八世纪成为 Eustachio Manfredi 与 Giovanni Battista Guglielmini 等天文学家的研究重镇。

• Laura Bassi publicly defended forty-nine theses at the Sala degli Anziani of the Palazzo Pubblico in 1732 and was awarded a doctorate on 12 May of that year, becoming the first woman to receive a doctorate in science and, in December, the first salaried woman lecturer in the world.劳拉·巴斯于 1732 年在市政厅长老厅公开答辩四十九篇论文，并于同年 5 月 12 日获博士学位，成为首位获得科学博士学位的女性，同年 12 月更成为世界上第一位有薪女性大学讲师。

• The university lost its central place in European culture when the focus of research and teaching shifted during the two world wars, and on 19 June 1999 education ministers from twenty-nine European countries signed the Bologna Declaration in the great hall, launching the Bologna Process to harmonise higher education across Europe.两次世界大战期间研究与教学重心转移，学校一度失去在欧洲文化中的中心地位；1999 年 6 月 19 日，欧洲 29 国教育部长在大讲堂签署《博洛尼亚宣言》，启动旨在统一欧洲高等教育的博洛尼亚进程。

• In 2012 the university carried out a systematic reform of its structure, reorganising into eleven schools and thirty-three departments with 212 degree programmes, and it now runs a multi-campus model in which Cesena, Forli, Ravenna and Rimini operate alongside Bologna.2012 年学校对院系设置进行系统性改革，重组为十一个学院与三十三个系，共设 212 个学科；学校现采用多校区办学模式，切塞纳、弗利、拉文纳与里米尼各校区与博洛尼亚主校区并行运作。

• It has been a member of networks including the Coimbra Group, the Utrecht Network, Una Europa, the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities and Europaeum, which have tied it to the reform of European higher education.学校是科英布拉集团、乌得勒支网络、Una Europa、欧洲研究型大学联盟与 Europaeum 等网络的成员，这些网络将其与欧洲高等教育改革紧密相连。

• The review Il Mulino was founded by students of the university in 1951, its publishing house was founded in 1954 and the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo followed in 1964, an intellectual record of the university's role in Italian cultural debate.由学校学生创办的评论刊物《Il Mulino》于 1951 年创刊，1954 年成立同名出版社，1964 年设立 Istituto Carlo Cattaneo 研究所，构成了学校在意大利文化论战中思想贡献的记录。

• In 1951 the review Il Mulino was founded by students of the university, and in 1954 the Il Mulino publishing house was founded as one of the most relevant Italian publishers, so the university became associated with the magazine that for decades shaped Italian political and cultural debate.1951 年由学校学生创办《Il Mulino》评论，1954 年同名出版社成立并成为意大利最重要的出版社之一，学校由此与这份数十年来塑造意大利政治与文化论战的刊物联系在一起。

• In 2012 the reform reorganised the previous twenty-three faculties into eleven schools and reduced the number of departments from sixty-six to thirty-three, while the multi-campus system that had operated since 1989 was retained across Bologna, Cesena, Forli, Ravenna and Rimini.2012 年的改革将原有的二十三个学院重组为十一个学院，系的数量由六十六个减至三十三个，自 1989 年起运行的多校区体系则在博洛尼亚、切塞纳、弗利、拉文纳与里米尼继续保留。

• The DAMS course in the discipline of arts, music and performance was instituted in 1971 by Benedetto Marzullo, Umberto Eco, Renato Barilli and Adelio Ferrero inside the Faculty of Letters and Arts, and it was the first degree course of its type opened in Italy.艺术、音乐与表演（DAMS）专业于 1971 年由 Benedetto Marzullo、翁贝托·埃可、Renato Barilli 与 Adelio Ferrero 在文学院创设，是意大利首个此类学位课程。

• The Faculty of Letters and Arts that housed DAMS also counts among its teachers Carlo Goldoni the playwright, Leon Battista Alberti the architect and writer, and Giovanni Pascoli the poet, each of whom studied or taught at Bologna.容纳 DAMS 专业的文学院教师中还有剧作家卡洛·哥尔多尼、建筑师兼作家莱昂纳多·阿尔伯蒂与诗人 Giovanni Pascoli，他们或在博洛尼亚求学，或在此任教。

Academics

• The university is organised into eleven schools, namely agriculture and veterinary medicine, economics management and statistics, engineering and architecture, foreign languages literature interpreting and translation, law, arts humanities and cultural heritage, medicine and surgery, pharmacy biotechnologies and sport sciences, political sciences, psychology and education sciences, and sciences.学校下设十一个学院，分别是农业与兽医学院、经济管理与统计学院、工程与建筑学院、外国语言文学口译与翻译学院、法学院、艺术人文与文化遗产学院、医学与外科学院、药学生物技术与体育科学学院、政治学院、心理学与教育科学学院，以及理学院。

• Underneath the schools the university has thirty-three departments organised by homogeneous research domains, reduced from sixty-six in 2012, with a new department of Latin history added in 2015.学院之下设三十三个按研究领域整合的系，2012 年前为六十六个，2015 年新增拉丁史系。

• Among the named departments are Chemistry Giacomo Ciamician, Industrial Chemistry Toso Montanari, Electrical Electronic and Information Engineering Guglielmo Marconi, Education Studies Giovanni Maria Bertin, Statistical Sciences Paolo Fortunati, and departments of Medicine, Law, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and Computer Science and Engineering.具名系包括以 Giacomo Ciamician 命名的化学系、以 Toso Montanari 命名的工业化学系、以 Guglielmo Marconi 命名的电气电子与信息工程系、以 Giovanni Maria Bertin 命名的教育研究系、以 Paolo Fortunati 命名的统计科学系，以及医学、法学、数学、物理学与天文学、计算机科学与工程等系。

• The university offers 101 first-level Laurea or Laurea breve degrees of three years, followed by 108 second-level Laurea specialistica or Laurea magistrale degrees of two years, while eleven courses keep the single-cycle Laurea magistrale of five years except medicine and dentistry which require six.学校提供 101 个三年制第一层次学位与 108 个两年制第二层次学位，另有 11 个专业保留五年制单一周期学位，医学与牙科学则需六年。

• After a Laurea a student may take a first-level master of one year, and after a second-level degree may proceed to a second-level master, a specialisation school or a research doctorate.取得第一层次学位后可攻读一年制第一层次硕士，取得第二层次学位后可继续攻读第二层次硕士、专科学校或研究型博士。

• The Collegio Superiore di Bologna, founded in 1998 as the Collegio d'Eccellenza, is a fully funded residence for students of merit that offers interdisciplinary courses in addition to the degree programme, together with a personal tutor and free accommodation at the Residence for Higher Study, and Beatrice Fraboni has headed it since 2019.博洛尼亚高等学院于 1998 年以卓越学院之名创立，是面向优秀学生的全奖住宿机构，在学位课程之外提供跨学科课程，并配备个人导师与高等研究宿舍的免费住宿，Beatrice Fraboni 自 2019 年起主持该院。

• Among externally funded bodies linked to the university are the AlmaCube, described as the first business incubator in Italy, and the Bologna University Press, which publishes the university's scholarly output.与学校相关的校外资助机构包括被称为意大利首家创新企业孵化器的 AlmaCube，以及出版学校学术成果的博洛尼亚大学出版社。

• The Institute of Carlo Cattaneo, established in 1964, grew out of the research projects begun by the students who founded the review Il Mulino in 1951, with the Il Mulino publishing house following in 1954, and it became one of Italy's leading centres for the study of political and educational institutions.Carlo Cattaneo 研究所于 1964 年成立，源自 1951 年创办《Il Mulino》评论的学生所开展的研究计划，1954 年 Il Mulino 出版社随之成立，该所后来成为意大利研究政治与教育制度的重要机构之一。

• Among the schools named after figures are the School of Engineering and Architecture and the School of Pharmacy, Biotechnologies and Sport Sciences, which together with the other nine schools give the university its complete disciplinary range from agriculture to psychology.以人物命名的学院包括工程与建筑学院、药学生物技术与体育科学学院，与其余九个学院一道构成学校从农业到心理学的完整学科门类。

• Its library system comprises thirty-eight libraries holding 1.25 million volumes and about 2,500 periodicals, arranged in a three-tier network of university, school and research centre libraries, with an historical archive of importance for the study of higher education.学校图书馆系统由三十八座图书馆组成，藏书 125 万册、订有约 2500 种期刊，分为大学、学院与研究中心三级网络，并设有对近现代高等教育制度研究十分重要的历史档案馆。

• Known as a museum university, the institution holds some thirty museums and a botanical garden, including museums of astronomy, geology, mineralogy, physics, zoology, anthropology, anatomy and pathology.学校素有「博物馆大学」之称，拥有约三十座博物馆与一座植物园，其中较著名的有天文博物馆、地质博物馆、矿物博物馆、物理博物馆、动物博物馆、人类博物馆、解剖博物馆与病理博物馆等。

• In the Italian national research assessment system ANVUR the university ranked second among comprehensive universities for the period 2004 to 2010, with particular strengths in chemistry, medicine, agriculture and veterinary medicine, architecture, engineering and statistical science.在意大利国家研究评估体系 ANVUR 中，学校于 2004 至 2010 年间的综合大学排名位居第二，优势领域为化学、医学、农业与兽医学、建筑学、工程学与统计科学。

• Research output averages about 11,000 results a year with 200 patents, and in 2007-2012 it had 260 projects approved under the European Union Seventh Framework Programme with 85 million euros in funding, first in Italy and sixth in Europe by number.学校年均科研产出约 11,000 项、专利约 200 项，2007 至 2012 年间有 260 个项目获欧盟第七框架计划认可并获得 8500 万欧元经费，按数量在意大利居首、欧洲居第六。

• Among externally funded bodies linked to the university are the AlmaCube, described as the first business incubator in Italy, and the Bologna University Press, which publishes the university's scholarly output.与学校相关的校外资助机构包括被称为意大利首家创新企业孵化器的 AlmaCube，以及出版学校学术成果的博洛尼亚大学出版社。

• Among the affiliated institutions of the university are the Collegio Superiore di Bologna, the Bologna Business School, the Collegio d'Eccellenza and the University Hospital Sant'Orsola, which together with the thirty-eight libraries make up the institutional network around the historic seat.与学校相关的附属机构包括博洛尼亚高等学院、博洛尼亚商学院、卓越学院与 Sant'Orsola 大学医院，它们与三十八座图书馆一道构成历史校址周边的机构网络。

• The university maintains agreements with more than one thousand partners worldwide, of which seven hundred and eighty-seven are in Europe, alongside eighty-four in South America, seventy-six in Asia, fifty-three in North America, forty-eight in Africa and twenty-two in Oceania, and it registered about 2,400 foreign students and some 2,300 exchange arrivals in 2012.学校在全球拥有逾 1000 个正式合作伙伴，其中欧洲 787 个、南美洲 84 个、亚洲 76 个、北美洲 53 个、非洲 48 个、大洋洲 22 个，2012 年正式注册外国留学生约 2400 人，经交流项目入校学习者约 2300 人。

• Together with the University of Siena and the University of Tours, the university participates in networks such as Una Europa and the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, and it is one of the Italian universities with the highest level of internationalisation according to the Italian higher education assessment body.学校与锡耶纳大学、图尔大学一道参与 Una Europa 与欧洲研究型大学联盟等网络，并据意大利高等教育评估机构的数据，是国际化程度最高的意大利大学之一。

• Students of the university can spend part of their studies at partner institutions overseas, and about 18.1 per cent of graduates in 2012 had studied abroad, one of the highest shares among Italian universities. The University of Bologna also hosts the Collegio Superiore and the Bologna Business School on its historic seat, and the Carlo Cattaneo Institute carries out research on Italian political and educational institutions.学校学生可到海外合作院校交流，2012 年有海外学习经历的毕业生占 18.1%，在意大利大学中处于较高水平；博洛尼亚大学还在历史校址内设有高等学院与博洛尼亚商学院，Carlo Cattaneo 研究所则开展意大利政治与教育制度研究。

Campus

• The university's historic seat is in the city of Bologna in the Emilia-Romagna region, and its main campus area together with the surrounding university district covers 103 hectares, forming one of the largest continuous university quarters in Italy.学校的历史校址位于艾米利亚-罗马涅大区的博洛尼亚市，主校区及周边大学区占地 103 公顷，构成意大利规模最大的连续大学街区之一。

• Besides Bologna the university has campuses at Cesena with Cesenatico, Forli, Ravenna with Faenza and Rimini, teaching facilities at Ozzano and Imola, and branches abroad in Buenos Aires, New York, Brussels and Shanghai.除博洛尼亚主校区外，学校在切塞纳（含切塞纳蒂科）、弗利、拉文纳（含法恩扎）与里米尼设有校区，在奥扎诺与伊莫拉设有教学设施，并在布宜诺斯艾利斯、纽约、布鲁塞尔与上海设有海外机构。

• Among its historic buildings the Archiginnasio served as the main seat between 1563 and 1803, the University Library occupies Palazzo Poggi, the Porticum and Loggia belong to the Royal Spanish College, and the cloister of San Giovanni in Monte houses the departments of history and cultures.历史建筑中，博洛尼亚大学学院大楼在 1563 至 1803 年间作为学校本部，大学图书馆设于波吉宫，西班牙皇家学院的柱廊与回廊颇具特色，圣乔瓦尼因蒙特修道院回廊则是历史与文化各系所在地。

• The Navile campus houses the departments of chemistry, industrial chemistry, pharmacy, physics and astronomy, reflecting how teaching specialisms are distributed between the main site and the satellite campuses.纳维莱校区设有化学、工业化学、药学、物理学与天文学等系，反映各专业分布在主校区与卫星校区之间的布局。

• Its botanical gardens, the Orto Botanico and the Orto Agrario Filippo Re, are among the collections held by the university, which also runs numerous museums and archaeological collections.校属的博洛尼亚植物园与 Filippo Re 农艺园是学校收藏的一部分，学校同时拥有众多博物馆与考古藏品。

• The Buenos Aires campus in Argentina makes it the only Italian university with an overseas campus, and it coordinates major research and postgraduate programmes and cooperates with the academic community of Latin America.学校在阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯设有校区，是意大利唯一拥有海外校区的高校，该校区协调重要科研与研究生项目，并与拉丁美洲学界开展合作。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the University of Bologna is placed 123rd in the world with a score of 63.9, and in the same ranking it is 66th for academic reputation and among the global top 100 universities for graduate employability.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，博洛尼亚大学位居世界第 123 位，综合得分 63.9，同一榜单中其学术声望居第 66 位，毕业生就业能力进入全球前 100。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings the university ranks 111th in the world.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列世界第 111 位。

• In the 2026-2027 edition of the U.S. News Best Global Universities the university is placed 219th.在 2026 至 2027 年度美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名中，该校位居第 219 位。

• OpenAlex attributes 230,057 works and 21,047,310 citations to the university, one of the highest research records in Italy and a reflection of its role as one of Europe's most active research institutions.OpenAlex 为该校记录学术成果 230,057 篇、总被引 21,047,310 次，是意大利最高的研究体量之一，反映其作为欧洲研究最活跃机构之一的地位。

• In the 2023 THE Impact Rankings, which measure commitment to sustainable development under the United Nations 2030 Agenda, Bologna placed fifth in Europe and twenty-third in the world.在衡量各校落实联合国 2030 年可持续发展议程承诺的 2023 年 THE 影响排名中，博洛尼亚大学位居欧洲第 5、世界第 23。

• The university counts four Nobel laureates among its alumni, including Giosue Carducci in literature in 1906, Guglielmo Marconi in physics in 1909 and Camillo Golgi in physiology or medicine in 1906, which is the highest level of distinction in its list of alumni.学校校友中有四位诺贝尔奖得主，包括 1906 年诺贝尔文学奖得主焦苏埃·卡尔杜奇、1909 年诺贝尔物理学奖得主古列尔莫·马可尼与 1906 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主卡密罗·高尔基，这是该校校友所获的最高层级荣誉。

• Its historical standing is also marked by figures such as Luigi Galvani, who studied medicine at Bologna and pioneered work on bioelectricity, and by Laura Bassi, the first woman to hold a university chair in a scientific field.学校的历史声望还体现在诸多人物身上，如在此学习医学并开创生物电研究的路易吉·伽伐尼，以及成为首位在科学领域获得大学教席的女性的劳拉·巴斯。

• It has been called the mother of universities, and on 18 September 1988, at its nine-hundredth anniversary, the rectors of some 430 universities signed the European University Charter in the Piazza Maggiore of Bologna, formally recognising it as such.学校被誉为「大学之母」，1988 年 9 月 18 日建校九百周年之际，来自约 430 所大学的校长在博洛尼亚大广场共同签署《欧洲大学宪章》，正式确认了这一称号。

Student life

• The university emblem carries the motto Alma Mater Studiorum, Latin for nourishing mother of studies, together with the date AD 1088, while its second motto in Latin is Petrus ubique pater legum Bononia mater, rendered as Saint Peter is everywhere the father of the law and Bologna its mother.校徽载有拉丁语校训 Alma Mater Studiorum，意为「哺育学问的母亲」，并刻有公元 1088 年字样；学校的另一句拉丁语校训为「Petrus ubique pater legum Bononia mater」，可译为「圣彼得是法律之父遍在天下，博洛尼亚是法律之母」。

• Residential life is organised through the Collegio Superiore, whose students receive a full-ride scholarship, a personal tutor and free accommodation at the Residence for Higher Study, provided they maintain high marks in both their degree course and the additional courses.住宿与生活由高等学院组织，其学生享有全额奖学金、个人导师与高等研究宿舍的免费住宿，条件是须在学位课程与附加课程中保持优异成绩。

• With more than 90,000 students, including 47,253 undergraduates, 36,266 postgraduates and 4,239 doctoral candidates, the university has become one of the largest student communities in Europe.学校在校生超过 90,000 人，其中本科生 47,253 人、研究生 36,266 人、博士生 4,239 人，已成为欧洲规模最大的学生群体之一。

• Through the DAMS course in the discipline of arts, music and performance, founded in 1971 by Benedetto Marzullo, Umberto Eco, Renato Barilli and Adelio Ferrero within the Faculty of Letters and Arts, the university opened the first degree of its kind in Italy, and it remains a reference for students in the arts.经由 1971 年由 Benedetto Marzullo、翁贝托·埃可、Renato Barilli 与 Adelio Ferrero 在文学院创设的艺术音乐与表演（DAMS）专业，学校开办了意大利首个此类学位课程，至今仍是艺术类学生的重要参照。

• The university organises more than 450 extracurricular activities each year, including meetings with international figures, scientific forums and social events, many of them run with public and local institutions for both students and residents.学校每年组织 450 项以上课外活动，包括与国际文化名流的交流、科学论坛与社会活动，其中许多与公共及地方机构合办，面向学生与当地居民开放。

• It publishes UNIBO Magazine and operates the university sports centre CUS Bologna, through which students take part in competitive sport, while the museums, botanical gardens and libraries on the campuses are open to the public.学校出版《UNIBO Magazine》，并通过校体育中心 CUS Bologna 组织学生竞技体育；各校区内的博物馆、植物园与图书馆则向公众开放。

Notable people

• Irnerius, the founder of the School of Glossators, worked at Bologna in the eleventh century and is counted among the university's founders, together with the jurists Pepo and Gratian who taught the Digest.十一世纪注释法学派的奠基人 Irnerius 曾在博洛尼亚讲学，他与讲授《学说汇纂》的法学家佩波、格雷茨亚诺一道被视为学校的创办者。

• Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Thomas Aquinas and Leon Battista Alberti all studied at the university, and Nicolaus Copernicus learned canon law there while beginning his astronomical observations.但丁、彼特拉克、伊拉斯谟、托马斯·阿奎那与莱昂纳多·阿尔伯蒂都曾在此求学，哥白尼亦在此学习教令法并开始天文观测。

• Giosue Carducci, who taught Italian literature at the university, was the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1906 and led the committee that fixed the founding year of 1088.在此教授意大利文学的焦苏埃·卡尔杜奇是首位获得诺贝尔文学奖的意大利人（1906 年），并主持了将建校年份确定为 1088 年的历史委员会。

• Laura Bassi, who earned her doctorate in 1732 and became the world's first salaried woman university lecturer, also served as the first female member of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna.劳拉·巴斯于 1732 年获博士学位，成为世界上第一位有薪女性大学讲师，同时也是博洛尼亚研究院科学院首位女性成员。

• Camillo Golgi, professor of histology and the discoverer of the Golgi apparatus, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906 with Santiago Ramon y Cajal, while Marcello Malpighi taught anatomy and developed microanatomy and histology.组织学教授、高尔基体发现者卡密罗·高尔基与西班牙的桑地牙哥·拉蒙卡哈共同获得 1906 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖；马尔切洛·马尔皮吉则在此教授解剖学，创立了显微解剖学与组织学。

• Paracelsus, founder of toxicology, and Ulisse Aldrovandi, who collected and classified animals, fossils and natural phenomena and advanced pharmacology, taught at the university during the sixteenth century.毒理学奠基人帕拉塞尔苏斯，以及通过采集分类动物、化石与自然现象并推动药理学发展的乌利塞·阿尔德罗万迪，都是十六世纪在此任教的学者。

• Romano Prodi, who taught economic and political science at the university, served twice as prime minister of Italy and as the tenth President of the European Commission.曾在此任教经济与政治学的罗马诺·普罗迪两度出任意大利总理，并出任欧盟委员会第十任主席。

• Umberto Eco, the semiotician, philosopher and author of The Name of the Rose, taught in the Faculty of Letters and Arts and co-founded the DAMS course in 1971.符号学家、哲学家、《玫瑰之名》作者翁贝托·埃可曾在文学院任教，并于 1971 年共同创办 DAMS 专业。

• Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the carmaker, is an alumnus of the university, as is Stefano Domenicali, who was chief executive of the Formula One Group and former team principal of Scuderia Ferrari.汽车制造商创办人 Enzo Ferrari 是该校校友，曾任一级方程式集团首席执行官、法拉利车队前领队的 Stefano Domenicali 亦出自该校。

• Corrado Gini, the statistician who developed the Gini coefficient as a measure of the fairness of income distribution, taught at the university, as did the mathematician Federigo Enriques.提出用以衡量收入分配公平程度的基尼系数的统计学家 Corrado Gini 曾在此任教，数学家 Federigo Enriques 亦然。

• Pope Alexander VI studied law at the university, as did his successor Pope Innocent IX, and the two are counted among the ecclesiastical figures in its long list of alumni.教宗亚历山大六世曾在此学习法学，其继任者教宗诺森九世同样就读于此，两人都是该校漫长校友名录中的教士人物。

• Maria Gaetana Agnesi, who wrote the first complete textbook treating integral and differential calculus, and was appointed to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy, became the second woman to hold a university professorship after Laura Bassi.撰写第一部完整论述积分与微分的教科书、并获任数学与自然哲学讲席教授的 Maria Gaetana Agnesi，是继劳拉·巴斯之后第二位担任大学教授的女性。