Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta
The Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta, often simply abbreviated as "LUMSA", is a private Roman Catholic university founded in 1939 in Rome. It is the second-oldest university in Rome after Sapienza.
Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta | |
Former name | Istituto Superiore di Magistero Maria SS. Assunta |
|---|---|
| Motto | In fide et humanitate |
Motto in English | In the faith and in the humanity |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 26 October 1939 |
| Founders | Luigia Tincani, Venerable Giuseppe Pizzardo Pius XII |
| Affiliation | BioGeM |
| President | Giovanni Lajolo |
| Rector | Francesco Bonini |
| Students | 7,200 |
| Location | , Italy |
| Campus | Urban (multiple sites) |
| Language | Italian and English |
| Colors | Malachite and white |
Sporting affiliations | LUMSA Sport United |
| Website | www |
LUMSA was privately founded but belongs to the national Italian network of universities and is therefore able to confer recognised degrees and diploma titles which have full legal force. The principal aspects of LUMSA are to be found in its humanist vocation and Catholic orientation. It has a humanist vocation because, in a society which is scientifically and technologically advanced, there is a growing awareness of the need for ‘wise knowledge’ which is rooted in an authentic idea of man and is able to promote progress for the real good of man and the human community. LUMSA belongs to the national and international scientific research network and has research programmes which operate within certain specific areas: education, the social services, the philosophical, philological, and literary sciences, mass communications, juridical sciences, economics, computer science, and data science.