Light and knowledge, held to the highest standard.

St. Estè University was chartered in 1786 by a consortium of valley families who believed that a serious education belonged in the mountains rather than the capitals. That conviction still governs the university: small cohorts, exacting standards and an unhurried attention to scholarship.

Today the university comprises seven schools and twenty-six degree programmes, taught across a neo-Gothic campus that has been carefully extended with laboratories, studios and performance halls of the first order. Students arrive from ninety-four countries — some from families who have sent generations here, others as the first in their family to attend university at all.