The University of Turin (UNITO) is a public higher education institution that offers modern degrees, according to the Bologna Process, as well as official postgraduate programmes that are subject to demanding educational quality control systems. UNITO offers 131 curricula and enrols 67008 students, of which 1835 are in the agriculture and food technology area. It is the sixth biggest university in Italy. The personnel is composed of 3519 teaching and research staff, and 1953 administrative and services staff. Overall, 9% of the students are foreign students. Indeed UNITO is involved in various international networks, also in the context of European programmes such as the Framework Programmes for Research, the Lifelong Learning Programme, the Tempus Programme. It maintains roughly 880 bilateral agreements with partner universities under the LLP Erasmus programme and 500 formal agreements with foreign universities outside Erasmus.