DEAMS - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali, Matematiche e Statistiche "Bruno de Finetti"

The origins of DEAMS, Department of Economics, Business, Mathematics and Statistics, date back to the foundation of the University of Trieste. When in the 1800s the city’s port was built, the community of Trieste asked the Imperial House of Austria to endow the city with a University, to support its flourishing trade and establish a suitable institution to provide citizens with an education and training in legal and economic studies. Although the request was not granted, the city nonetheless found ways to provide institutions for higher learning. In 1877, Baron Pasquale Revoltella, an important entrepreneur and patron of the arts and culture, set up a secondary school specialized in Commerce, the ‘Scuola Superiore di Commercio’, to cater for the practical and professional needs of Trieste’s fast-growing entrepreneurial class. In 1920, the school was renamed the ‘Institute for Business Studies’ and by 1924 it was known as the University of Economics and Business, offering just one degree of the same name. Today DEAMS offers Bachelor and Master Degrees in Italian and in English, welcoming students from all over Italy and the world.