The University of Insubria (Italian: Università degli Studi dell'Insubria) is a university located in Como and Varese, Italy. It was founded in 1998, it is organized in 5 Faculties and it has been named after the area where it is situated, the Regio Insubrica or, as more commonly called, Insubria. According to the ranking made by Il Sole 24 Ore in 2008, the University of Insubria places itself 25th out of the 60 state-supported Italian universities; third in Lombardy after Politecnico di Milano and University of Pavia. The Faculty of Law in Como has passed from the 9th to the 6th place in the CENSIS 2010/2011 Faculty of Law table. The University of Insubria, which includes two sites, in Como and in Varese, was incorporated on July 14, 1998, but the institution which thus became a University had earlier origins. In 1972, a University Centre had been established in Varese as an extension of the Faculty of Medicine of University of Pavia followed in 1990 by an extension of the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences and of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Milan.