Lund University

Lund University
Lunds universitet
Latin: Universitas Lundensis[1]
Former name
Royal Caroline Academy
Latin: Regia Academia Carolina
MottoAd utrumque
Motto in English
Prepared for both[Note a]
TypePublic research university
Established1666; 358 years ago (1666)[2]
BudgetSEK 10.4 billion[3]
Vice ChancellorErik Renström[4]
Academic staff
5,050 (2023)[5]
Administrative staff
3,000 (2023)[5]
Students47,000 (27,000 FTE)[3]
Location
Lund
,
Scania
,
Sweden
CampusUrban
ColorsDark blue and bronze
   
NicknameLU
AffiliationsUniversitas 21
LERU
EUA
ASAIHL
Websitehttps://www.lu.se https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se

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. After Sweden won Scania from Denmark in the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde, the university was officially founded in 1666 on the location of the old studium generale next to Lund Cathedral.

Lund University has nine faculties,[6] with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with around 47,000 students[3] in 241 different programmes and 1,450 freestanding courses. The university has 560 partner universities in approximately 70 countries. It belongs to the League of European Research Universities as well as the global Universitas 21 network.[7] Among those associated with the university are five Nobel Prize winners, a Fields Medal winner, prime ministers and business leaders.

Two major facilities for materials research have been recent strategic priorities in Lund: MAX IV, a synchrotron radiation laboratory – inaugurated in June 2016, and European Spallation Source (ESS), a new European facility that will provide up to 100 times brighter neutron beams than existing facilities today, to be operational by the end of 2027.[8]

The university centres on the Lundagård park adjacent to the Lund Cathedral, with various departments spread in different locations in town, but mostly concentrated in a belt stretching north from the park connecting to the university hospital area and continuing out to the northeastern periphery of the town, where one finds the large campus of the Faculty of Engineering.

  1. ^ Record of the Jubilee Celebrations of the University of Sydney. Sydney, New South Wales: William Brooks and Co. 1903. ISBN 9781112213304.
  2. ^ "LUND UNIVERSITY AT LUND AND HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN". EduMaritime.net. Retrieved 31 May 2015. [permanent dead link]
  3. ^ a b c Facts and figures Archived 2018-08-20 at the Wayback Machine Lund University web site.
  4. ^ Mar 2022, Page manager: editorskommunikationluse | 9. "Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström". www.lunduniversity.lu.se.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ a b Jun 2022, Page manager: editorskommunikationluse | 22. "Facts and figures". www.lunduniversity.lu.se. Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 14 July 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "Management and leadership". Archived from the original on 6 May 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  7. ^ "About Lund University - Lund University". Lund University. 5 July 2016. Archived from the original on 6 May 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  8. ^ ESS Mandate Archived 2017-01-03 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 21 May 2017.