University of Gothenburg
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| University of Gothenburg | |
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| Göteborgs universitet | |
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| Latin: Universitas Regia Gothoburgensis | |
| Motto | Tradita innovare innovata tradere |
| Motto in English | Renew our heritage and pass it on renewed |
| Established | 1891 |
| Type | Public |
| Endowment | SEK 4,491 million (total income, 2007)[1] |
| Rector | Dr. Pam Fredman |
| Faculty | 447 [1] |
| Staff | 4,700 total full-time,[1] 2,500 scientific[1] |
| Students | 24,100 (FTE, 2008)[2] |
| Doctoral students | 2,278[1] |
| Location |  Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Campus | urban |
| Colours | blue, white |
| Website | www.gu.se |
The University of Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg.
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[edit] Character
The University of Gothenburg is the third-oldest Swedish university, and with 24,900 full-time students[3] it is also among the largest universities in the Nordic countries. With its eight faculties and 57 departments, the University of Gothenburg is also the most wide-ranging and versatile universities in Sweden. Its eight faculties offer training in the Creative Arts, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Humanities, Education, Information Technology, Business, Economics and Law, and Health Sciences.
It describes itself as "a major university in Europe".[4] In the 2009 Times ranking, the university is placed 185th[5] in the world. In the 2008 ARWU ranking, Gothenburg University is ranked in the 201-302 range[6] when compared to the top 500 universities in the world.
Gothenburg University has the highest number of applicants per study place in many of its subjects and courses[7], and is therefore one of the most popular universities in Sweden.
[edit] History
The University of Gothenburg was founded as Göteborgs högskola (Gothenburg College) in 1891. In 1907 it was granted the same status as Uppsala University and Lund University by the Swedish government. Over the course of time, it as merged with a number of previously independent academic institutions in the city. It was granted the rights of a full university by the Swedish government in 1954, following the merger of the Göteborgs högskola with the Medicinhögskolan i Göteborg (Gothenburg Medical School), thus becoming Sweden's third-oldest university.
In 2005, the originally separate Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law became part of the University of Gothenburg. Sahlgrenska University Hospital is associated with the university as a teaching hospital.
In the 1990s the School of Economics and the Academy of Music, Drama and Opera have moved to new buildings in the city centre. A new campus for the Faculty of Education (teacher training) was opened in central Gothenburg in 2006.
The University of Gothenburg is a pronounced city university, that is most of its facilities are within the city centre of Gothenburg. The main building as well as most faculties are located in the central part of Gothenburg.
[edit] Organisation
The university is organised into several academic faculties. [8]
- Artistic studies (Konstnärliga fakulteten)
- design and crafts
- film school
- literary composition
- photography
- scene and music
- Göteborg Organ Art Center
- Valand School of Fine Arts
- Education (Utbildningsvetenskapliga fakulteten) offers teacher training courses
- Humanities (Humanistiska fakulteten)
- cultural studies
- history
- literature, history of ideas, religion
- modern languages
- philosophy, linguistics, theory of science
- Swedish
- Information Technology (IT fakulteten)
- applied information technology
- computer science and engineering
- Natural Sciences
- botany
- cell and molecular biology
- physics
- earth sciences
- chemistry
- kulturvård
- marine ecology
- mathematics
- environmental science
- zoology
- Sahlgrenska Academy is the university's medical school
- the School of Business, Economics and Law (Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet) is a combined business school and law school
- economics
- business administration
- law
- cultural geography
- national economy and statistics
- Social Sciences (Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten)
- peace and development studies
- public administration
- journalism and mass communication
- psychology
- social anthropology
- social work
- sociology
- political science
[edit] People
[edit] Alumni
- Percy Barnevik, industry leader, former CEO of Asea Brown Boveri
- Nick Bostrom, eminent philosopher and futurist and Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University
- Magnus Carlsson, singer
- Jan Eliasson, diplomat and politician (former President of the United Nations General Assembly, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden)
- Carl Henrik Fredriksson, Swedish literary critic, columnist, essayist, and translator
- Håkan Hellström, Swedish singer and musician.
- Cecilia Malmström, politician (Member of the European Parliament, Swedish Minister of European Affairs)
- Njuguna Ndungu, economist, Governor and Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Kenya
[edit] Staff
- Sture Allén, computer linguist, former permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy
- Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine, 2000
- Ernst Cassirer, philosopher
- Åke Edwardson, author (used to teach Journalism)
- Gunnar D Hansson, Swedish author
- Bernhard Karlgren, sinologist
- Lotta Lotass, writer and literary scholar (Member of the Swedish Academy)
- Erik Lönnroth, historian (Member of the Swedish Academy)
- Bo Rothstein, political scientist
[edit] Honorary degrees
The University of Gothenburg has awarded numerous honorary doctorates to public figures and excellent academics, including:
- Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland 1980-1996 (honorary doctorate 1990)
- Hillary Clinton, politician (honorary doctorate, 2007)
- David Cox, statistician (honorary docatorate 2007)
- Linda Haas, sociologist
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Göteborgs universitet i siffror (Swedish) alternativ: Facts & figures (English) (abgerufen am 25. August 2008)
- ^ Swedish Higher Education Authority (Högskoleverket) - statistics for 2008 (Swedish), page 121
- ^ University of Gothenburg, facts and figures
- ^ A major European University
- ^ THE–QS World University Rankings Times Higher Education ranking, world's top 200, 2009
- ^ Academic Ranking of World Universities, 2008
- ^ (Swedish) Fakta om Göteborgs universitet
- ^ Organizational diagram
[edit] See also
- Chalmers University of Technology
- GOArt
- List of universities in Sweden
- Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg
[edit] External links
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