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University of Zurich

The University of Zürich (UZH, German: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland,[6] with its 28,000 enrolled students.[7] It was founded in 1833[8] from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine which go back to 1525, and a new faculty of philosophy.

For other uses, see Zurich (disambiguation).

Type

Public university

1833 (1833)

1.578 billion Swiss francs[1]

Michael Schaepman

3,702 (Full-time equivalent)[2]

2,051 (Full-time equivalent)[2]

25,732[3]

Zürich
,
Canton of Zürich
,
Switzerland

47°22′29″N 8°32′54″E / 47.37472°N 8.54833°E / 47.37472; 8.54833

Urban

Black, white, blue, grey and ochre[4][5]
         

LERU U21

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Currently, the university has seven faculties: Philosophy, Human Medicine, Economic Sciences, Law, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Theology and Veterinary Medicine. The university offers the widest range of subjects and courses of any Swiss higher education institution.[9]

University rankings

59 (2023)

91 (2024)

=80 (2024)

=67 (2022-23)

[30] (heavy emphasis on research output – citations, Nobel prizes etc.) Ranked 59th overall as well as 5th and 10th in the subdisclipines Ecology an Human Biological Sciences respectively.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ranking

[31] (heavy emphasis on peer review) 91st overall and 56th in Medicine globally making it the highest ranked University in Switzerland for Medicine according to QS.

QS World University Rankings

2024[32] 80th overall and ranked 42nd in the subdiscipline business & economics.

THE World University Rankings

Student life[edit]

The university's Academic Sports Association (ASVZ) offers a wide range of sports facilities to students of the university. The student body is represented through the Verband der Studierenden der Universität Zürich VSUZH which organizes events and is involved in the university administration.[36]

professor at Institut für Mathematik and Fields Medal

Artur Avila

Swiss Mathematician

Christian Beyel

Medicine

Brigitta Danuser

Dutch physicist and chemist

Peter Debye

theoretical physicist who was awarded his PhD from the University of Zurich in 1905 and was appointed associate professor at the university in 1909

Albert Einstein

one of the first women to receive a medical degree in a German-speaking country

Anna Fischer-Dückelmann

German physician, author and science communicator

Natalie Grams

(Ph.D. 1975), Swiss head of corporate research, professor

Paul Herrling

Swiss scientist and discoverer of LSD-25

Albert Hofmann

Swiss cardiologist

Max Holzmann

Chemist and the first British woman to get a doctorate in chemistry

Edith Humphrey

Biologist, Biographer of Gregor Mendel

Hugo Iltis

Swiss mathematician, youngest doctoral student in Switzerland

Maximilian Janisch

experimental physicist

Alfred Kleiner

biologist

Hanna Kokko

(1924–2015), Swiss immunologist and virologist; co-discoverer of interferon

Jean Lindenmann

(1839-1900), American chemist

Rachel Lloyd

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Rolf Pfeifer

physicist and engineer who discovered X-rays

Wilhelm Röntgen

Austrian physicist who was professor from 1921 to 1927

Erwin Schrödinger

Swiss pediatrician

Heinrich Willi

(born 1947), Swiss biologist and first woman director of ETH Zurich

Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach

Neurosurgery’s man of the century 1950–1999, professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery (1973-1993)

Gazi Yaşargil

digital library created and maintained by the university's Institute for Greek and Latin Philology.

Corpus Córporum

Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

List of largest universities by enrollment in Switzerland

List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)

Union of students' associations of the University of Zurich

The Ranking Forum of Swiss Universities