Education in Italy is free and compulsory from 6-15 years of age, and is divided into five stages: kindergarten (scuola materna), elementary school (scuola elementare), middle school (scuola media), high school (scuola superiore) and university (università). Italy has both public and private education systems. Italy has a large selection of universities, with the University of Bologna (founded in ca. 1088) being the oldest in the Western World, and La Sapienza University in Rome being the biggest in Italy.