Uppsala University

Uppsala University (Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a public university in Uppsala, Sweden. The oldest university in Scandinavia, it was founded in 1477 on the initiative of the Archbishop of Uppsala Jakob Ulfsson and the Swedish Regent Sten Sture, and with a papal bull from Sixtus IV. After a turbulent period following the reformation, with some periods of virtual extinction, the university rose to some significance with the rise of Sweden as a great power and a leading Lutheran state from the end of the 16th century and was given a relative financial stability with the large donation of King Gustavus Adolphus in the early 17th century.

Organization

The governing board of the university is the consistory, with representatives of the faculties as well as members representing the students and non-academic employees, and a number of university outsiders appointed by the Swedish government. Since the last reorganization in 1999 the university has a separate body called the academic senate, which is a wider, but mostly advisory group representing teaching staff / researchers and students. The executive head of the university is the rector magnificus (often translated into English as "vice-chancellor"), whose deputy is the prorector. In addition, there are (also since 1999) three vice rectors, each heading one of the three "disciplinary domains" (Arts and Social Sciences, Medicine and Pharmacy, and Science and Technology), into which the nine faculties are divided. Each faculty has a faculty board and is headed by a dean (dekanus). The position of dean is held part-time by a professor of the faculty.

Related Topics:
Consistory - Dean

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Through division of faculties and the addition of a previously independent school of Pharmacy as a new faculty, the traditional four-faculty organization of European universities has evolved into the present nine faculties:

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The disciplinary domain of Arts and Social Sciences

• Faculty of Arts*
• Faculty of Social Sciences*
• Faculty of Languages*
• Faculty of Theology
• Faculty of Law

The disciplinary domain of Medicine and Pharmacy

• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Pharmacy**

The disciplinary domain of Science and Technology

• Faculty of Science and Technology.* The engineering programs have from 1982 been marketed as the Uppsala School of Engineering (Uppsala Tekniska Högskola). This has however never been a separate institution, but only a unit within the Faculty of Science and Technology and use of the term has been phased out after the Faculty of Natural Sciences was renamed the Faculty of Sciences and Technology in the 1990s.

Faculty of Education and Teaching Professions***

: *These four are derived from the original Philosophical Faculty.

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: **The Faculty of Pharmacy was originally a school in Stockholm, in 1968 moved to Uppsala and incorporated with the university.

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: ***Formerly a department of Education, it was in 2002 raised to the status of a faculty in its own right, but does not belong to any of the three disciplinary domains.

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