The QS World University Ranking by subject has placed Ca’ Foscari of Venice among the top 100 universities in the world for modern languages, among the top 150 in the world for humanities, and among the top 200 in the world for economics and management.
The university also ranked as the third best public university in Italy for their quality of research according to ANVUR (the National Agency for the Evaluation of University Research Systems) in 2018.
Notable alumni
Among the alumni of the university are:
- Simone Albrigi, comic artist, known by the pen name “Sio”
- Michele Boldrin, economist
- Carlo Carraro, economist and Ca' Foscari's president between 2009 and 2014
- Paolo Costa, economist and politician
- Ida d'Este, educator, politician and partisan
- Giuseppe De'Longhi, businessman
- Nicolò Degiorgis, artist, publisher, curator
- Giuseppe Durato, manga artist
- Barbara Frale, historian
- Massimiliano Frani, pianist
- Mario Fratti, playwright and drama critic
- Lilli Gruber, politician, author, journalist and TV-personality
- Carla Lavatelli, Italian-American artist
- Beatrice Leanza, curator
- Giancarlo Ligabue, palaeontologist and politician
- Ugo La Malfa, politician
- Rina Macrelli, screenwriter and essayist
- Roberto Meneguzzo, banker and investor
- Damiano Michieletto, opera director
- Sara Moretto, politician
- Lionello Perera, banker, patron of the arts
- Flaminio Piccoli, politician
- Renzo Rosso, businessman, founder of the clothing brand Diesel
- Francesca Trivellato, historian
- Paul Watzlawick, philosopher and psychologist
- Lella Vignelli, architect and designer
- Guglielmo Cinque, linguist
- Homayoun Ershadi, actor and architect
See also
- List of universities in Italy