The quality certification and accreditation experience in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Turin (Note 1)

The Faculty of Economics, with more than 10.000 students and the largest in the University of Turin, is going to double its surface from 15.000 to 33.000 m2 in order to be transformed in a real urban campus, inclusive of all the Departments and technical-administrative structures, located close to the “XX Olympic Winter Games Torino 2006” area. In 2007 the Faculty was the first in Italy to obtain both two accreditations from a regional Institution (Regione Piemonte) - respectively for “instruction and orientation activities” - and to be ISO 9001:2000 certified. The international certification is valid for the scope “planning and providing services for student career orientation, university education and job placement”. This first part of the work (Note 1) compares the characteristics of the two (regional and international) different models, in order to supply an operative integration to be experienced in similarly structured high educational entities.