4 universities across 3 cities

The University of Bologna, founded in 1088, is widely considered the oldest university in continuous operation, a large public multi-campus university in Emilia-Romagna with programmes in every major discipline.
Bocconi University is a private university in Milan founded in 1902, specialising in economics, management, finance, law, political science and data science, with many programmes taught in English.

Sapienza University of Rome, founded in 1303, is one of Europe's largest universities, a public research university with a central Città Universitaria campus and strengths in classics, physics, engineering and medicine.