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University of Gothenburg

The University of Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891,[2] the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and, with 53,624 students and 6,707 staff members,[3] it is one of the largest universities in the Nordic countries.

Motto

Tradita innovare innovata tradere

Renew our heritage and pass it on renewed

Public

1891 (1891)

  • EMU
  • EUTOPIA

Malin Broberg

53,624 (2023),[1] 28,462 (FTE)[1]

801[1]

Gothenburg
,
Sweden

urban

    blue, white

www.gu.se/en/

About[edit]

With its eight faculties and 38 departments, the University of Gothenburg is one of the most wide-ranging and versatile universities in Sweden. Its eight faculties offer training in the Creative Arts, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Humanities, Education, Information Technology, Business, Economics and Law, and Health Sciences.


The University of Gothenburg has the highest number of applicants per study place in many of its subjects and courses, making it one of the most popular universities in Sweden.

The Artistic Faculty (Konstnärliga fakulteten) offers courses in the fields of design and crafts, film studies, photography, scene, music and fine arts.

The Faculty of Education (Utbildningsvetenskapliga fakulteten) is responsible for teacher training in various subjects.

The Faculty of Humanities (Humanistiska fakulteten) comprises the humanities, for instance cultural studies, history, literature, , religion, archeology, modern languages, philosophy, linguistics, theory of science and Swedish language and literature.

history of ideas

University rankings

101–150 (2023)

187 (2024)

201–250 (2024)

=146 (2023)

computer linguist, former permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy

Sture Allén

linguist

Jens Allwood

Syrian Islamic scholar

Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

writer[12]

Dilruba Z. Ara

industry leader, former CEO of Asea Brown Boveri

Percy Barnevik

philosopher and futurist, and Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University

Nick Bostrom

operatic soprano

Malin Byström

Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine, 2000

Arvid Carlsson

singer

Magnus Carlsson

philosopher

Ernst Cassirer

artist and musician[13]

Fredy Clue

linguist (member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and Academia Europaea)

Östen Dahl

author (used to teach Journalism)

Åke Edwardson

diplomat and politician (former President of the United Nations General Assembly, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden)

Jan Eliasson

literary critic, columnist, essayist, and translator

Carl Henrik Fredriksson

singer

José González

Canadian medical academic, dermatologist and medical mycology researcher

Aditya K. Gupta

politician

Hans Hagnell

author

Gunnar D Hansson

Icelandic politician

Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir

linguist.

Tore Janson

Creative Advisor and former Head of Design for H&M

Ann-Sofie Johansson

author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

Jonas Jonasson

Chalmers University of Technology

GOArt

Gothenburg quadricentennial jubilee

List of universities in Sweden

Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg

The International Science Festival in Gothenburg

Sahlgrenska University Hospital