Lund University is a prestigious public research university in Sweden and one of northern Europe's oldest universities.
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23 Facts About Lund University
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Lund University is consistently ranked among the world's top 100 universities.
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City of Lund University has a long history as a center for learning and was the ecclesiastical center and seat of the archbishop of Denmark.
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Lund University was at its founding granted four faculties: Law, Theological, Medicine and Philosophy.
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Lund University stayed in Lund for two years, in between his warlike expeditions.
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In 1845 and 1862 Lund co-hosted Nordic student meetings together with the University of Copenhagen.
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In recent years, Lund University has been very popular among applicants to Swedish higher education institutions, both nationally and internationally.
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Lund University has a satellite campus in nearby Malmo, Sweden's third-largest city.
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Lund University library was established in 1668 at the same time as the university and is one of Sweden's oldest and largest libraries.
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Lund University is organised into more than 20 institutes and research centres, such as:.
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Lund University offers 275 educational programs including 9 Bachelor's degree programmes and more than 130 Master's programmes in English.
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Lund University is well known as one of Scandinavia's largest research universities.
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The EU is the university's second largest external research funder and Lund is the 23rd largest receiver of funding within the union's Seventh Framework Programme.
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One of the most famous innovations based on research from Lund University is diagnostic ultrasound, which is today a routine method of examination in hospitals around the world.
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Lund University is commonly ranked within the top 100 in the world by several ranking agencies.
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QS has a separate ranking for business Master's, where Lund University is ranked in the categories 'Marketing' and 'Finance' in 2022.
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In 2018, Lund placed 82nd in the world in the Times Higher Global University Employability Ranking.
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Round Lund University Ranking is an international world university rankings system which measures performance of 1100 leading world universities from 82 countries by 20 unique indicators and 4 key areas of university activities: teaching, research, international diversity, financial sustainability.
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Nations in Lund are a central part of the university's history, initially serving as residential colleges for students, organized by geographic origin.
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Carl Linnaeus, began his academic career in Lund University by studying medicine and botany for a year before moving to Uppsala.
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Lund University is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.
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Bertil Hult founded EF Education from his dormitory in Lund University and was the company's CEO until 2002 and chairman until 2008.
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Lund University cooperates with universities on all continents, both in areas of research and student exchange.
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