How old is uppsala university

Uppsala University has over 50, students, more than 7, employees and a turnover of around SEK 7 billion. Uppsala University uses cookies to make your website experience as good as possible. Read more about cookies. Skip to main content. The buddies in the programme are both Swedish and international students that have been in Uppsala for at least a semester most likely longer and have already gone through this same transition.

Their purpose is to help you settle in. The thirteen Student Nations are clubs dating back to the 17th century. Each nation bears the name of a certain region in Sweden and historically it was a club for students from that region. You are free to choose which nation you want to join. Uppsala University Library consists of 14 subject libraries near various university departments. Your library card is common to all the libraries and you are free to use all the facilities.

The Language Workshop is open to all students at Uppsala University who want help with their oral or written presentations. Student housing is provided by a number of private companies. It should be said that it will take a lot of work on your behalf to secure housing. The university departments sometimes help students with applying for housing. If accepted to a master programme you will receive information on how to look for housing.

The tuition fees for the master programmes at Uppsala University vary between SEK 90,, per academic year. The application fee to Swedish universities is SEK All students must be able to pay for personal living expenses, course books, insurance, etc.

The Swedish Institute also administers scholarships. Applying to a master programme, please see the checklist on our webpage. If the 18th century was the century of the natural sciences at the University, the 19th century was the era of historians, literary scholars, and writers. A statue has been erected in front of the main university building in honour of the foremost of these scholars, the historian Erik Gustaf Geijer.

Many changes were made in the middle of the century which reformed the organisation of the university and brought the examination system up-to-date. The art collection at Uppsala University is one of the largest in Sweden. It has been created through donations, mainly during the 19th century.

Many portraits can be seen on the walls of University Hall. An art collection, used for teaching purposes, is exhibited in newly-restored premises in Uppsala Castle.

Uppsala University celebrated its th anniversary with pomp and circumstance in As a present from the Swedish state on this occasion, the University received a new university building — University Hall — which is still in use.

The building was officially opened ten years later in Women had been allowed to study at the University starting in the s. However, it was a long and arduous struggle for the women who studied here to achieve equal recognition in their studies and academic careers. The first woman in Scandinavia to receive a PhD was the historian Ellen Fries, who received her degree in Uppsala in The University boasted many prominent scholars during this period.

Some of them became Nobel laureates. Alfred Nobel, himself, received an honorary doctorate from the University in Immediately preceding World War I — , student opinion was strongly divided into a conservative and a radical wing.

During World War II, student opinion was more unified however, and most of the young people reacted with abhorrence to the Nazi philosophy of violence. This period is characterised by sweeping educational reforms and expansion of the number of students. All post-secondary education has been concentrated in the universities and university colleges.

For Uppsala University this means that all teacher-training programmes and shorter nursing programmes are now part of the University. The number of students, which had been about 5, in the s, increased dramatically in the s, reaching some 20, students before stabilising at a somewhat lower level. In the s new expansion has taken place, with more than 30, students involved in undergraduate education.