Economics

The Faculty of Economics, established in 1947, belongs to the group of the best Italian and European Faculties for the seriousness of the studies, the quality and completeness of the programmes, the constant relationship between research and teaching that allows a teaching staff of high scientific level to teach what emerges from the results of the research and, therefore, ensure high levels of knowledge, learning and skills.

The vision of economics taught and practiced in this Faculty starts research from the particular and arrive at the general by degrees: from the person - from his identity and individuality - to family units, to regional areas, to national contexts up to a broad international perspective. Thinking about economics is essential to understanding the sense of the variety of ways in which, everywhere, people decide, operate, strive and achieve a purpose. 

The Faculty is committed to ensuring that students are trained as persons who are concretely distinguished by knowledge, ready to carry out important tasks in society and to bear witness to their commitment to the world.

The Faculty's educational project is characterised, first of all, by its solid anchorage to a system of values, typical of the connotation of Università Cattolica, which places the integral development of the person and the community at the centre of the objectives of economic action, a system of values which, in the words of one of the teachers of Università Cattolica, Professor Francesco Vito considers the economy "at the service of man".

As a community of life and research, the University asks students to engage in intense and constant participation in academic life, making the best use of the many opportunities for growth that it offers on a daily basis.

The choices of the Faculty of Economics have always underlined the centrality of the student, his commitment and his responsibility: attention to his cultural preparation – first of all – and to systemic, functional and specialized knowledge; the real possibility of fostering a dense university life; the qualification of the time dedicated to the processes of teaching, learning and study, through attention to attendance and active teaching models; the programmability of time and space; continuous certification of the preparation of the level of learning achieved; concrete proximity to the world of work and professions through the activation of qualified internships and traineeships; attention to the improvement of language skills, with the raising of the basic and master's level of the English language; the constant openness to internationalization, the availability of universities of excellence at international level for exchanges with other faculties, both in Europe, on the American continent, and in China, India and Africa.

The curricula are built with a view to striking the balance between a strong interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary base and an articulation of courses that takes into account the specialist needs of reality.

The Faculty of Economics also stands out for its focus on expanding opportunities for access to higher education, which, even in the present era, represents a real resource. In fact, since the very first post-war period, courses had been organized which, in addition to those that took place in the morning and afternoon, were placed in the late afternoon and evening. This is to allow access to the University even to people who, for various work reasons, could not attend the University during the day.

An ideal innovation for the working student, which is part of the long tradition of the evening course, is the activation of the graduate degree in Management and Business Consulting, offered on the Milan and Rome campuses, which shares a part of the basic training course with the other graduate degree programmes in business economics but offers an original blended formula.

The Faculty intends to emphasize in its educational project both the knowledge of foreign languages and IT tools by organizing courses that make use of the most advanced teaching and learning technologies. With regard to language skills, the constant collaboration with the Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and the agreements in place make it possible to learn the main European languages and those of developing countries and to follow courses of study at the best European and international universities in order to integrate the knowledge acquired in the specific subject areas with the language and culture of the different countries.