Inventions from centuries past notwithstanding, what universities does Italy have that are in the same league as Stanford and Wharton?
alumni average results and achievements will vary a lot, because of open access, and population size and economic stagnation would screw other metrics like employment rate, wages etc. other metrics like staff size are pointless as well, unless maybe proportioned by participation over population size, and then one would need to carefully define what each university catchment region it.