University of Gothenburg
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| University of Gothenburg | |
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| Göteborgs universitet | |
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Latin: Universitas Regia Gothoburgensis |
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| Motto: | Tradita innovare innovata tradere |
| Established: | 1891 |
| Type: | Public |
| Rector: | Dr. Pam Fredman |
| Staff: | 5,400 |
| Students: | 50,000 |
| Doctoral students: | 2,500 |
| Location: | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Campus: | urban |
| Website: | http://www.gu.se/ |
The University of Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborgs universitet) is a university in the city of Gothenburg in Sweden. With more than 50,000 students and 5,400 employees it is the largest university in Scandinavia[1] and a major university in Europe.[2] It is also the most wide-ranging and versatile university in Sweden.[3]
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[edit] History
The University of Gothenburg was founded as Göteborgs högskola (Gothenburg College) in 1891. In 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).
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] Faculties and other divisions
The university is organized into several faculties. [4]
[edit] Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts
- Academy of Music & Drama, Theater and Opera
- School of Photography
- School of Film
- School of Design and Crafts
- Literary Composition, Poetry & Prose
- Valand School of Fine Arts
[edit] Faculty of Arts
The Faculty of Arts is divided into the following departments: [5]
- Archaeology and Ancient History
- Art History and Visual Studies
- Comparative Literature
- Culture, Aesthetics and Media
- English
- Ethnology
- German and Dutch
- History
- History of Ideas and Theory Science
- Linguistics
- Oriental and African Languages
- Philosophy
- Religious Studies, Theology and Classical Philology
- Romance Languages
- Slavic Studies
- Swedish
[edit] Faculty of Education
[edit] Faculty of Science
[edit] Others
[edit] People
[edit] Alumni
- Percy Barnevik, industry leader, former CEO of Asea Brown Boveri
- 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
- Cecilia Malmström, politician (Member of the European Parliament, Swedish Minister of European Affairs)
[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
- Gunnar D Hansson, Swedish author
- Bernhard Karlgren, sinologist
- 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)
[edit] References
[edit] See also
- Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg
- Chalmers University of Technology
- GOArt
- List of universities in Sweden
[edit] External links
- University of Gothenburg - Official site
- slide-show
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