University of Lausanne
The University of Lausanne (UNIL; French: Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology,[1] before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzerland, and one of the oldest universities in the world to be in continuous operation. As of fall 2017, about 15,000 students and 3,300 employees studied and worked at the university. Approximately 1,500 international students attend the university (120 nationalities), which has a wide curriculum including exchange programs with other universities.
Motto
Le savoir vivant
Live knowledge
1537
Frédéric Herman (since August 2021)
3,700 (2014)
13,500 (2014)
8,066 (2010)
1,370 (2010)
1,583 (2010)
Together with the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) the university forms a vast campus at the shores of Lake Geneva.
The University of Lausanne comprises seven faculties:
The University of Lausanne also comprises schools and different sections, including but not limited to:
The main building of the Faculty of Law and Criminal Justice and of the Faculty of Business and Economics.
The Extranef building.
The Édouard Fleuret Library pavilion.
The Génopode building of the University of Lausanne hosts the Center for Integrative Genomics of the University of Lausanne and the central administration of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
The School of Criminal Justice of the UNIL is the world's oldest school of forensic science and is one of the only European institution to offer a complete education in forensic sciences.
The Anthropole building.
Unithèque building houses one of the two sites of the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne on the main campus of the UNIL
The Géopolis building: Faculty of Geosciences and Environment and Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Vortex building, student residence on the campus
University rankings
101–150 (2023)
=220 (2024)
=143 (2024)
182 (2023)
Press[edit]
The UNIL publishes a free monthly campus magazine entitled L'Uniscope[20] The UNIL also publishes Allez savoir !,[21] a free magazine aimed at a larger audience (general public), in January, May, and September.
Besides these, L'auditoire is the students' newspapers from both UNIL and EPFL, with a circulation of 19,000.
School of Lausanne[edit]
Neoclassical school of thought in economics founded at the University of Lausanne by two of its professors: Léon Walras and Vilfredo Pareto. The School of Lausanne is associated with the development of general equilibrium theory as well as the marginalist revolution.
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