The University of Naples Federico II is a university in Naples, Italy.
Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 13 faculties.
It was Europe's first university dedicated to training secular administrative staff, and one of the oldest academic institutions in continuous operation.
Federico II is the third University in Italy by number of students enrolled, but despite its huge size it is still one of the best universities in Italy, being particularly notable for research; in 2015 it was ranked among the top 100 universities in the world by citations per paper.
As of 2016 it is the only generalist Italian university in the Times higher education reputation, which considers the best 200 best universities in the world.
The university is named after its founder Frederick II.
In October 2016 the University hosted the first ever Apple IOS Developer Academy and in 2018 the Cisco Digital Transformation Lab
