Jabarkan Reputasi dan peringkat dari Universitas Basel

Peringkat terhomat membuktikan prestasi internasional akademik Universitas Basel:

Times Higher Education World University Ranking (2016/2017): 95

Academic Ranking of World Universities (2017): 95

Universitas Basel saat ini mempunyai tujuh fakultas:

Departemen Biomedik  (joint venture antara Universitas Basel, Universitas, Rumah Sakit, dan Universitas Rumah Sakit Anak-anak)

Departemen Olahraga, Olahraga dan Kesehatan

Humaniora dan Ilmu Sosial (Phil I)

Departemen Matematika dan Ilmu Komputer

Institut Eropa untuk Studi Global

Institute for Biomedical Ethics (IBMB)

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI)

Swiss Centre for Rescue, Emergency and Disaster Medicine (SZRNK)

Alumni dan pengajar fakultas terkemuka

Universitas ini terhitung di antara lembaga-lembaga pendidikan tinggi terkemuka di Swiss dan dengan demikian memiliki sejumlah besar politisi, ilmuwan dan pemikir sebagai dosen dan alumni dari seluruh dunia sama:

Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950), biochemist and physiologist Swiss

Werner Arber (1929–), microbiologist and geneticist Swiss, penerima Nobel Fisiologi atau Kedokteran pada tahun 1978

Karl Barth (1886-1968), Swiss Protestan theologian

Jacob Bernoulli (1655–1705), prominent Swiss mathematician, after whom Bernoulli numbers are named

Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782), Swiss mathematician and physicist

Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), Swiss historian

Jacques Dubochet (1942–), Swiss biophysicist, penerima Nobel Kimia tahun 2017

Erasmus (1466-1536), humanis Dutch Renaissance

Paul Erdman (1932–2007), American business and financial writer

Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), matematikawan dan fisikawan

Christoph Gerber professor at the Department of Physics, co-inventor of the atomic force microscope

Albert Gobat (1848–1914), politikus Swiss, penerima Penghargaan Nobel Perdamaian tahun 1902

Jeanne Hersch (1910–2000), filsuf Swiss

Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), German psychiatrist and philosopher

Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), Swiss psychiatrist, and founder of Analytical Psychology

Michael Landmann (1913–1984), Swiss-Israeli philosopher

Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994), Israeli public intellectual and polymath

Friedrich Miescher (1844–1895), Swiss physician and biologist, first researcher to isolate nucleic acid

Alice Miller (1923–2010), Swiss psychologist and author

Paul Hermann Müller (1899–1965), Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900,) German philosopher, held Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel at the age of 24

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942–), German biologist and biochemist, penerima Nobel Fisiologi atau Kedokteran tahun 1995

Paracelsus (1493–1541), Swiss philosopher, physician, botanist and astrologer

Tadeus Reichstein (1897–1996), kimiawan Polandia-Swiss, penerima Nobel Fisiologi atau Kedokteran tahun 1950

Otto Stich (1927–2012), Presiden Konfederasi Swiss

William Theilheimer (1914–2005), ilmuwan Jerman-Amerika

Lilian Uchtenhagen (1928–2016), Swiss politician and economist

Kurt Wüthrich (1938–), kimiawan Swiss, penerima Nobel Kimia tahun 2002

Iona Yakir (1896–1937), Red Army commander

Rolf Zinkernagel (1944–), dokter Swiss, penerima Nobel Fisiologi atau Kedokteran tahun 1996