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== Education ==
=== Schools ===
In 2021 there were over 45 schools of all types and levels, including: over 26 schools between Kindergarten and Primary schools (including one bilingual: Italian-English<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comune.pv.it/site/home/aree-tematiche/scuola-giovani-e-famiglia/prima-infanzia-0-6/scuole-infanzia.html|title=Scuole d'infanzia|work=Comune di Pavia|access-date=5 August 2022}}</ref>), 8 [[Secondary education in Italy|Lower secondary schools]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comune.pv.it/site/home/articolo95.html|title=Scuole primarie statali e paritarie| work=Comune di Pavia|access-date=5 August 2022}}</ref> and 11 [[Secondary education in Italy|upper secondary schools]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comune.pv.it/site/home/articolo96.html|title=Scuole secondarie statali e paritarie| work=Comune di Pavia|access-date=5 August 2022}}</ref> Some of these boast centuries of history, such as the Ugo Foscolo [[Liceo classico|classical lyceum]], originally started in 1557 near the convent of [[Santa Maria di Canepanova]] by the [[Barnabites|Barnabite]] Fathers or the Liceo Scientifico Torquato Taramelli ([[Liceo scientifico|scientific lyceum]]), heir to the Normal Schools established in 1799.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.istaramellifoscolo.edu.it/la-scuola/|title=Storia e Mission|work=Is Taramelli Foscolo|access-date=5 August 2022}}</ref>

=== Universities, colleges and other institutions ===
Pavia is a major Italian college town, with several institutes, universities and academies, including the ancient [[University of Pavia]]. Here is an incomplete list of the main institutions located in the city:
[[File:Cortile delle statue Università di Pavia.jpg|thumb|One of the courtyards of the [[Old Campus of the University of Pavia]]]]
* The [[University of Pavia]], one of the most ancient universities in Europe, was founded in 1361, although a school of rhetoric is documented in 825 making this center perhaps the oldest proto-university of Europe. The [[Old Campus of the University of Pavia|Old Campus]] is a wide block made up of twelve courts of the 15th to 19th centuries. The sober façade shifts from baroque style to neoclassic. The ''Big Staircase'', the ''Aula Foscolo'', the ''Aula Volta'', the ''Aula Scarpa'' and the ''Aula Magna'' are neoclassic too. The ''Cortile degli Spiriti Magni'' hosts the statues of some of the most important scholars and alumni. Ancient burial monuments and gravestones of scholars of the 14th to 16th centuries are walled up in the ''Cortile Voltiano'' (most come from demolished churches). The ''Cortile delle Magnolie'' holds an ancient pit. The ''Cortile di Ludovico il Moro'' has a renaissance loggia and terracotta decorations. Both courts, as well as two more, were the cloisters of the ancient Ospedale di San Matteo. The [[Orto Botanico dell'Università di Pavia]] is the university's [[botanical garden]]. There is also the [[University History Museum, University of Pavia|University History Museum]] and the [[Natural History Museum (Pavia)|Natural History Museum of Pavia]].
*[[Borromeo College]] (Ital. ''Almo Collegio Borromeo''), founded in 1561 by [[Carlo Borromeo]], is the oldest college at the University of Pavia in northern Italy.
*[[Ghislieri College]] (Ital. ''Collegio Ghislieri''), founded in 1567 by [[Pope Pius V]], is the second ancient college in Pavia, with the other first being [[Almo Collegio Borromeo]], and one of the most ancient [[colleges]] in Italy and co-founder of the [[IUSS Pavia|IUSS]], located in Pavia as well. Collegio Ghislieri is a 450-year-old Italian institution committed to promote University studies on the basis of merit, hosting around 200 pupils (males and females) who attend all faculties in [[University of Pavia|Pavia State University]], offering them logistic and cultural opportunities such as scholarships, lectures, conferences, a 100,000-volume library (third among private libraries in Northern Italy), and foreign languages courses. Each year about 30 new students coming from all over the country are selected by a public contest. Founded by Pope Pius V (Antonio Ghislieri) in 1567, since 18th century laically managed, nowadays under the High Patronage of the Presidency of the Italian Republic, it is ranked among high qualifying institutions by the Italian Ministry for Education and University.[[File:Collegio borromeo12.jpg|thumb|[[Collegio Borromeo]]]]
*The [[IUSS Pavia]] or the "Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori" of Pavia (Eng. ''IUSS School for Advanced Studies'') is a higher learning institute located in Pavia, Italy. It was founded in 1997 by the [[University of Pavia]], [[Borromeo College]] and [[Ghislieri College]], supported by the Italian Minister of Education. It is shaped according to the [[Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa]] model and reunites all the five colleges of Pavia, forming the [[Pavia Study System]].