Göteborg University
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 Latin: Universitas Regia Gothoburgensis |
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| Motto | Tradita innovare innovata tradere |
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| Established | 1891 |
| Type | Public University |
| Rector | Dr. Pam Fredman |
| Staff | 5,400 |
| Undergraduates | 50,000 |
| Doctoral students | 2,500 |
| Location | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Website | http://www.gu.se/ |
Göteborg University, or Göteborgs universitet, is a university in Gothenburg, Sweden. It has over 50,000 students studying at eight faculties, which makes it the largest university in Scandinavia.
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[edit] History
It was founded as Göteborgs högskola (Gothenburg University College) in 1891 and has later absorbed several other, previously independent, institutions of higher education in the city. It became a full university with the merger of the University College with the Gothenburg School of Medicine (Medicinhögskolan i Göteborg) in 1954. Another part of the university is the originally separate Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law, changed to School of Business Economics and Law in 2005. The Sahlgrenska University Hospital is associated with the university as a teaching hospital. Gothenburg University is a pronounced city university, and during the 1990´s the School of Economics and the Academy of Music, Drama and Opera have been given new facilities in the town centre. And right now (2006) the university is building a new campus for the education faculty
[edit] Faculties and other divisions
- The Sahlgrenska Academy of Medicine
- The Faculty of Arts
- The Faculty of Applied and Fine Arts
- The Faculty of Social Sciences
- The School of Business, Economics and Law
- The Faculty of Education
- The Faculty of Science
- The IT University of Göteborg
[edit] People
- Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine, 2000
- Ernst Cassirer, philosopher
- Sture Allén, computer linguist, former permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy
- Erik Lönnroth, historian, member of the Swedish Academy
- Bernhard Karlgren, sinologist
- Jan Eliasson (b. 1940), diplomat, current President of the United Nations General Assembly and former Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, graduate of the Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law
- Percy Barnevik (b. 1941), industry leader, former CEO of Asea Brown Boveri; graduate of the Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law.
[edit] See also
- Royal Swedish Society of Science and Letters in Gothenburg
- Chalmers University of Technology
- List of universities in Sweden
[edit] External links
- Göteborg University - Official site
- Göteborgs universitet : ett universitet med traditioner och många högskolor (PDF), an illustrated brochure with articles on the occasion of the 50th anniversary, 2004, 47 pp, in Swedish
