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The University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy, where teaching began around 1088 and which was organised into a university in the late 12th century, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation, [1] and the first university in the sense of a higher-learning and degree-awarding institute.
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.
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.
The city is the site of the oldest university in Scandinavia, founded in 1477, and is where Carl Linnaeus, one of the renowned scholars of Uppsala University, lived for many years; both his house and garden can still be visited.
Lund University, established in 1666, is one of Scandinavia's oldest and largest institutions for education and research. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The university and its buildings dominate much of the centre of the city, and have led to Lund becoming a regional centre for high-tech industry.
Uppsala University is one of the most prominent universities in Sweden and is commonly ranked within the top 100 in the world by several ranking agencies. [35] For example, for over ten years, it has been ranked among the 80 best universities in the world in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. [36]
The Royal Academy of Turku or the Royal Academy of Åbo (Swedish: Kungliga Akademien i Åbo or Åbo Kungliga Akademi; Latin: Regia Academia Aboensis; Finnish: Turun akatemia) was the first university in Finland, and the only Finnish university that was founded when the country still was a part of Sweden. It was founded in 1640.
The university was the only university in Norway until the University of Bergen was founded in 1946. It has approximately 27,700 students and employs around 6,000 people. [ 5 ] Its faculties include ( Lutheran ) theology (with the Lutheran Church of Norway having been Norway's state church since 1536), law, medicine, humanities , mathematics ...