The University of Siena is an internationally significant research university with undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and professional programmes of the highest quality. With over 18,000 students, in 2014 the University of Siena was classified first in the whole of Italy for its structures, quality of services, internet access, study grants and internationalization (Censis classification). It is also among the top 500 universities in the world, according to the QS World University Ranking.
The University of Siena hosts Santa Chiara Fab Lab (www.santachiaralab.unisi.it), a large laboratory of digital fabrication. The Fab Lab is member of Fab Foundation (http://www.fabfoundation.org) and partner of Fab Academy (http://fabacademy.org). It is a node of Fab Lab Toscana (http://fablabtoscana.it/) and belongs to the world of the Fab Foundation (http://www.fabfoundation.org/).