University of Teramo
The University of Teramo () is an Italian public research university located in Teramo, Italy. The academic institution was officially established in 1993 after having been a detached section of the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara for over 30 years.

Background
The University of Teramo, which holds one of the most modern campuses in Italy, offers 5 faculties 24 degree courses, 35 Masters, 6 postgraduate schools and 10 departments. The entire 50,000 sq m of the Coste Sant'Agostino Campus holds the faculties of Law, Communication Sciences, and Political Science. A scientific pole is currently underway and will house the faculties of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture. It consists of a very up-to-date facility of 100,000 sq m which will also accommodate an animal Hospital and a Sanitary Dog Kennel. The Campus and Pole are two realities symbolizing the core areas of the University: the legal, political and communicative areas together with the agro-bio-veterinary area which represent two centers of excellence of the University of Teramo. Communication technologies have always influenced both thought and learning methods. As a result, facilities more and more necessary to the knowledge society such as language, multimedia, television laboratories, the university newspaper, and radio station, have been carried out. 
The University is living a strong period of internationalization through offering scholarships to students from all over of the world.

Trivia 
In 1991 Joseph Ratzinger led in the University of Teramo on a convention called “Capitalism and Social Rights”.
According to a research conducted by the influential institution Censis Repubblica the University of Teramo ranks #2 in the list of best Italian universities under 10.000 students.

Organization

These are the 5 faculties in which the university is divided into:

 Faculty of Agriculture
 Faculty of Communication Science
 Faculty of Law
 Faculty of Political Science
 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Notable people

Faculty
Amongst the best-known professors who teach or have taught at the University of Teramo there are:

 Giacinto Auriti
 Renato Brunetta
 Rocco Buttiglione
 Gianni Cuperlo
 Michel Martone
 Lorenzo Ornaghi
 Marco Pannella
 Roberto Vecchioni