International Partnerships & Ranking

The University’s Internationalization Strategy focuses on enhancing our global presence, profile and esteem through a wide range of activities which encompass student/staff exchanges, enterprise activities, visiting faculty, joint research. Moreover, we are constantly seeking to improve our national and international ranking.


Parthenope ranks in the top 5% out of twenty thousand universities worldwide according to the Center for World University Rankings’ (CWUR) new list for 2020-21. The ranking uses a set of objective indicators that assess the quality of education, alumni employment, research output, and citations without relying on surveys and university data submissions.

Furterhmore, Parthenope University has been ranked also by the global university ranking program U-Multirank, an independent consortium wanted and funded by the European Commission, that uses an innovative approach to international ranking of universities on a like-with-like basis, scoring all results into one out of five tiers. This year’s results, indicate that Parthenope has been ranked 37 out of 81 among Italian universities, and 8 out of 81 for international co-autorships.