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Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. It traces its roots back to 1425, when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund.
Today, Lund University is one of northern Europe's largest, with eight faculties, 41,000 students and over 2,000 separate courses. [35] It is and has consistently ranked in the world top 100 universities [ 36 ] and is a member of the League of European Research Universities as well as the global Universitas 21 network.
A Högskola (= university college in English) is an institution of higher education, similar to a university but typically smaller and with PhD-rights in fewer areas. The right to award doctoral degrees is in Sweden given and monitored by the Swedish Higher Education Authority in the same way for universities and university colleges.
Universitetshuset, Lund The main building of the Lund University ( Universitetshuset in Swedish) was designed by architect Helgo Zettervall and inaugurated by King Oscar II in 1882. [ 1 ] Construction began in 1874, when the old main building Kungshuset had become too small for the growing number of students.
The Faculty of Engineering is one of the eight faculties at Lund University in Lund, Sweden, commonly called LTH (after its Swedish name Lunds Tekniska Högskola). LTH has (2022) about 1,500 employees and nearly 10,000 students, of which about 650 graduate annually.
Kungshuset, the "King's House", is a building in Lund in Sweden, built by the Danish king Frederick II between 1578 and 1584 and originally intended as the residence for the bishop of Lund. After the secession of the Scanian lands to Sweden at the Treaty of Roskilde 1658 Lund University was founded in 1666 to enhance the Swedification of the ...
the entrepreneurial university and the creation of research-based firms; public policy in the field of innovation, R&D and competence building in a comparative perspective. The research focus lies on the socioeconomic and policy aspects of three kinds of learning: [1] Innovation (in new products as well as processes) which takes place mainly in ...
This is a list of student nations at Lund University in Sweden. The tradition of nations at the university is practically as old as the university itself. The list is by default sorted in accordance with a time-honoured order based on the age of the diocese of the area that the nation was named after.