Uppsala University | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-04

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00:02:24 1 History
00:02:33 1.1 15th century: origins
00:03:56 1.2 16th century: Turbulent times
00:06:29 1.3 17th century: Expansion
00:11:37 1.4 18th century: Enlightenment and mercantilism
00:15:03 1.5 Women at the university
00:18:47 2 Administration and organisation
00:18:58 2.1 Central administration
00:20:20 2.2 Faculties
00:22:30 2.3 Faculty of Law
00:23:01 2.4 University Library
00:24:36 2.5 Uppsala University Hospital
00:26:22 2.6 The Svedberg Laboratory
00:27:03 3 Campus
00:29:16 3.1 Ekonomikum
00:30:03 4 Student life
00:30:12 4.1 Nations and student union
00:33:17 4.2 Music
00:34:30 4.3 Housing crisis
00:35:49 4.4 Housing
00:36:15 5 Athletics
00:36:49 5.1 The iexercitiae/i
00:38:47 5.2 Other sports
00:40:33 6 Rankings
00:40:55 7 Notable people
00:46:11 8 International cooperation
00:46:58 9 In fiction and popular culture
00:48:13 10 See also



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Uppsala University (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and all of the Nordic countries still in operation. It ranks among the world's 100 best universities in several high-profile international rankings. The university uses "Gratiae veritas naturae" as its motto and embraces natural sciences.
The university rose to pronounced significance during the rise of Sweden as a great power at the end of the 16th century and was then given a relative financial stability with the large donation of King Gustavus Adolphus in the early 17th century. Uppsala also has an important historical place in Swedish national culture, identity and for the Swedish establishment: in historiography, literature, politics, and music. Many aspects of Swedish academic culture in general, such as the white student cap, originated in Uppsala. It shares some peculiarities, such as the student nation system, with Lund University and the University of Helsinki.
Uppsala belongs to the Coimbra Group of European universities and to the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities. The university has nine faculties distributed over three "disciplinary domains". It has about 44,000 registered students and 2,300 doctoral students. It has a teaching staff of roughly 1,800 (part-time and full-time) out of a total of 6,900 employees. Twenty-eight per cent of the 716 professors at the university are women. Of its turnover of SEK 6.6 billion (approx. USD 775 million) in 2016, 29% was spent on education at Bachelor's and Master's level, while 70% was spent on research and research programs.Architecturally, Uppsala University has traditionally had a strong presence in Fjärdingen, the neighbourhood around the cathedral on the western side of the River Fyris. Despite some more contemporary building developments further away from the centre, Uppsala's historic centre continues to be dominated by the presence of the university.