Faculties & Schools

The main building of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Business and Economics

The University of Lausanne comprises 7 faculties:

• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM)
• Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), also called HEC Lausanne
• Faculty of Geosciences and Environment (GSE)
• Faculty of Law and Criminal Justice
• Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SSP)
• Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies

The University of Lausanne also comprises schools and different sections:

• School of Criminal Justice (ESC)
• School of French as a Foreign Language (EFLE)
• Vacation Courses (CVAC)
• Section of Pharmacy

历史

Palais de Rumine, one of the first buildings of the University of Lausanne

The Academy, forerunner of the UNIL, was founded in 1537. Its vocation at that time was to train ministers for the church. The university enjoyed a certain renown due to the fact that it was the only French language Protestant school of theology.

As the centuries passed, the number of faculties increased and diversified until, in 1890, the Academy received the name and status of a university. In 1909 Rodolphe Archibald Reiss founded the first school of forensic science in the world: the "Institut de police scientifique". From 1970, the university moved progressively from the old centre of Lausanne, around the Cathedral and Château, to its present site at Dorigny. The end of the 20th century witnessed the beginnings of an ambitious project aiming at greater co-operation and development among the French-speaking universities of Lausanne, Geneva, and Neuchâtel, together with the EPFL. In 2003 two new faculties were founded concentrating on the life and human sciences: the Faculty of biology and medicine; and the Faculty of earth science and environment.

Reputation/Rankings

The University of Texas TOP 100 BUSINESS SCHOOL RESEARCH RANKINGS ranked the Faculty of Business & Economics of the University of Lausanne (HEC Lausanne) as follows:

The Leiden Ranking of the University of Leiden, when ranking universities by the size-independent, field-normalized average impact of their research publications, ranked the University of Lausanne as follows:

The Leiden Ranking of the University of Leiden, when ranking universities by citations-per-publication ranked the University of Lausanne as follows:

The Times Higher Education Supplement [THES] World University Rankings ranked the University of Lausanne as follows:

The Academic Ranking of World Universities [ARWU] ranked the University of Lausanne as follows:

4 International Colleges & Universities [4icu.org] ranked the popularity of the website of the University of Lausanne as follows:

Alumni

Royalty

• King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) of Thailand
• King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) of Thailand
• HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana of Thailand
• Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
• Princess Vera Ignatievna Giedroyc, Lithuanian princess and Russian-Ukrainian surgeon

Politics

• Daniel-Henri Druey, former President of the Swiss Confederation
• Constant Fornerod, former President of the Swiss Confederation
• Paul Ceresole, former President of the Swiss Confederation
• Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet, former President of the Swiss Confederation
• Eugène Ruffy, former President of the Swiss Confederation
• Marc-Emile Ruchet, former President of the Swiss Confederation
• Ernest Chuard, former President of the Swiss Confederation
• Marcel Pilet-Golaz, former President of the Swiss Confederation
• Georges-André Chevallaz, former President of the Swiss Confederation
• Pascal Couchepin, former President of the Swiss Confederation
• Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, former President of the Swiss Confederation
• İsmail Cem, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey
• Şemsettin Günaltay, former Prime Minister of Turkey
• Pascoal Mocumbi, former Prime Minister of Mozambique
• Mohammad Sa'ed, former Prime Minister of Iran
• Jonas Savimbi, former leader of UNITA, an anti-Communist rebel group in Angola

Business

• Louis C. Camilleri, CEO of Philip Morris International
• Jean-Claude Biver, CEO of Hublot

More alumni from the Faculty of Business & Economics

Literature

• Edmond Pidoux, Swiss poet and novelist
• Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer

Others

• Sepp Blatter, 校长 of FIFA
• Max Huber, Swiss international lawyer and diplomat
• Claude Nicollier, Swiss astronaut
• Bertrand Piccard, Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist
• Jean Piccard, Swiss-born American chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist
• Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician, co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague
• Luc E. Weber, Rector Emeritus of the University of Geneva

校园

The Campus is presently situated outside the city on the Lakeside in Dorigny adjacent to the EPFL. The two schools together welcome about 20'000 students. The location is made up of individual buildings with a park and arboretum in between. The library also serves as eating hall and is centrally located. The view from the library across the sports fields to the lake of Geneva and the French and Swiss Alps. On a clear day, Mont Blanc can be seen.

The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, a federal agency for research and consultancy into comparative law, is also located on the campus.

School of Lausanne

Neoclassical school of thought in economics founded at the University of Lausanne by two of its Professors: Léon Walras and Vilfredo Pareto. The "School of Lausanne" is associated with the development of general equilibrium theory as well as the marginalist revolution Marginalism.

更多

• List of universities in Switzerland
• Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece
• Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne
• Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe
• myScience.ch - The Swiss Portal for Research and Innovation

External links

• Media related to University of Lausanne at Wikimedia Commons
• University of Lausanne website (in English)
• University of Lausanne website
• Information's about the University of Lausanne
• Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire de Lausanne (en français)