Umeå University

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Umeå University
Umeå Universitet
Established	1965
Type	Public University
Rector	Göran Sandberg
Faculty	3,600
Students	28,000
Doctoral students	1,250
Location	Umeå, Sweden
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	EUA
Website	Umeå University

Umeå University (Swedish: Umeå universitet) is a university in Umeå in the Midnorth of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the 5th oldest within Sweden's present borders.

During the seventies the university became known as the "red university" due to a large number of student strikes and a large share of left-wing politically active students. Since then conditions have normalised and Umeå University now has about 28,000 students, including master and Ph.D. candidates. There are a little less than 4000 employees, including 256 professors.

Internationally, the university is known for research relating to the genome of the Populus tree (Life sciences), contributions to the Gleason problem and function spaces on fractals (mathematics) and its school of industrial design which gives degree programs in English open to students from all of the world. It is also the biggest provider of distance education courses in the Nordic countries.

[edit] Institution

[edit] Organization and Campus Schools

Umeå University has 5 faculties and 7 campus schools, with additional campuses in the cities of Skellefteå and Örnsköldsvik, with a total of over 28,000 people studying in 50 different programmes and 800 separate courses.

[edit] Faculty of Arts

[edit] Academy of Fine Arts

The Academy of Fine Arts at Umeå University, the school started in 1987 in a former factory by the river of Uman. Every year 12 new students are accepted to the school, total of 60 students are studying at the Academy.

[edit] Faculty of Medicine

[edit] Norrlands University Hospital

Norrlands University hospital, is the main hospital and research center of medical care and Medicine in northern Sweden. Its one of five Medical School and Dental Medicine in Sweden.

[edit] Faculty of Teacher Education

[edit] Umeå School of Sports Pedagogies

[edit] Faculty of Social Sciences

[edit] Umeå School of Environmental studies

[edit] Umeå University School of Restaurant and Culinary Arts

[edit] Umeå School of Business (USBE)

USBE is one of Sweden's four EQUIS accredited business schools , about 2000 students currently studies at USBE. The School offers four Bachelor programs, seven Master`s degrees programs, EMBA-Prague program and doctoral programs. The International atmosphere is important to the school and offers one Bachelor program (International Business program), all Master's programs, and all doctoral programs entirely in English.

[edit] Faculty of Science and Technology

[edit] Umeå Institute of Technology

The Umeå Institute of Technology or Tekniska högskolan i Umeå is part of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Umeå University. The Institute offers a wide range of study programmes, some of them not to be found in any other part of Sweden. Research in engineering is gradually being expanded. The faculty's traditionally strong position in natural sciences form a base on which new technology research is built. The Institute is a member of CDIO.

[edit] Umeå Institute of Design

The Umeå Institute of Design, is a college within the Faculty of Science and Technology at Umeå University. The Institute opened in 1989 and is designed and equipped solely for the teaching of industrial design. The Umeå Institute of Design is known around the world for its high academic standards.

[edit] Research Centres

- Centre for Disability Research
- Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics
- Centre for Educational Technology (CUT)
- Centre for Environmental Research (CMF)
- Centre for Evaluation Research (UCER)
- Centre for Fish and Wildlife Research (CFW)
- Centre for Population Studies (CBS)
- Centre for Principal Development
- Centre for Regional Science (Cerum)
- Centre for Sami Research (Cesam)
- Centre for Teaching and Learning (UPC)
- Centre for Values Education (VGC) (at June 30, 2005, the unit was dissolved)
- Centre for the Studies of Science and Values
- High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N)
- Umeå Centre for Interaction Technology (UCIT)
- Umeå Centre for Functional Brain Imaging(UFBI)
- Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine (UCMM)
- Umeå Centre for Molecular Pathogenes (UCMP)
- Umeå Life Science Centre - ULSC
- Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (UMF)
- Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC)
- Universitetspedagogiskt centrum (UPC)
- Demografic Data Base (DDB)
- BildMuseet
- Centre for Women's Studies
- Humlab
- Transportation Research (Trum)
- Umeå School of Environmental Studies
- Umeå Transgene Core Facility (UTCF)
- VR-lab
- Intelligent Vehicles for Off-Road - IFOR