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Uppsala University (UU) (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation.
The order of precedence is based on their year of establishment as a university. Only Uppsala University (est. 1477 [1]) and Lund University (est. 1666 [2]) were actually founded as universities, whereas all the other universities were raised from högskola (university college) status to the higher university status after they had been founded.
This is a list of student nations at Uppsala University in Sweden.The tradition of nations at the university is practically as old as the university itself. The list is always sorted in accordance with a time-honoured order based on the age of the diocese of the area that the nation was named after.
Uppsala Student Union covers the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine at Uppsala University with the exception of students seated at the University's Gotland campus. Uppsala Student Union was founded in March 1849 by the student nations at the university and was the first Swedish students' union. The ...
Forum for South Asia Studies (FSAS) is a collaborative academic effort by six faculties of Uppsala University of Sweden aimed at facilitating and promoting research and education related to the South Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, the Maldives and Afghanistan, on the national and international level.
As Uppsala University has one of only two faculties of theology in Sweden, and the older one of the two (the other is in Lund), most Swedish churchmen of note have actually graduated from the university. Israel Acrelius (1714–1800), Lutheran missionary to New Sweden; author of History of New Sweden
Uppsala University Hospital also offers its services to foreign citizens (non-swedes) under the service organization called "Uppsala Care". [14] Specialities which are offered to foreigners include: [15] Endocrine oncology; Clinic for Internal Medicine, diabetes and other endocrine disorders, haematology, hepatology
ISP was founded in 1961 by Professor Tor Ragnar Gerholm at the Uppsala University Institute of Physics as a scholarship program called The International Seminar in Physics. The program provided scholarships for physics researchers from academic institutions in low-income countries.