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The entrance of the main administrative building of the university

The University of Gothenburg is the third-oldest Swedish university, and with 24,900 full-time students it is also among the largest universities in the Nordic countries. With its eight faculties and 57 departments, the University of Gothenburg is also one of 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". In the 2009 Times ranking, the university is placed 185th in the world. In the 2008 ARWU ranking, Gothenburg University is ranked in the 201-302 range 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, and is therefore one of the most popular universities in Sweden.

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KTB (Swedish: Kurs- och tidningsbibliotek)

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 has 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.

Organisation

The university is organised into several academic faculties.

Artisten - Academy of Music and Drama

• 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

The Central Library is adjacent to the Faculty of Humanities in the city centre.

• 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

School of Business, Economics and Law

• 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

Noted people

Alumni

Håkan Hellström (left), Swedish musician

• 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

Staff

Lotta Lotass, writer and member of the Swedish Academy.

• 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

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

参考文献

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• Chalmers University of Technology
• GOArt
• List of universities in Sweden
• Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg

External links

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• University of Gothenburg - Official site
• University of Gothenburg alumni network
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