Gothenburg University
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Gothenburg 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.
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]Faculties
- The Sahlgrenska Academy
- The Faculty Board of Arts
- The Faculty Board of Applied and Fine Arts
- The Faculty Board of Social Sciences
- The Faculty Board of the School of Business, Economics and Law
- The Faculty Board of Education
- The Faculty Board of Science
- The IT University of Göteborg
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 since 24 April 2006 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.
See also
- Royal Swedish Society of Science and Letters in Gothenburg
- Chalmers University of Technology
- List of universities in Sweden
External links
- [Gothenburg 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
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