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Lund University
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university located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden
Lund University is a major university located in the city of Lund in Scania, Sweden. It is one of Northern Europe's most prominent institutions of higher education and has played an important role in Swedish academic life for centuries.
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Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Education, Funder
- Founded
- 1666
- Location
- Lund, Sweden
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.4514.4 · ISNI 0000 0001 0930 2361
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Lund Municipality
- Founded by
- Charles XI of Sweden
- Headquarters
- Lund
- Parent organization
- Ministry of Education and Research
- Location
- Lund
- Official website
- www.lu.se
- Image
- Universitetsbyggnaden, Lund.JPG
- Students count
- 32036
- Motto
- Beredd till bådadera
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- Lunds universitet
- inception
- 1666-12-19
- Commons category
- Lund University
- topic's main category
- Category:Lund University
- category for alumni of educational institution
- Category:Lund University alumni
- IPv4 routing prefix
- 130.235.0.0/16
- IPv6 routing prefix
- 2001:6b0:16::/48
- category for employees of the organization
- Category:Academic staff of Lund University
- affiliation
- Universitas 21
- fax number
- +46-46-222-47-20
- phone number
- +46-46-222-00-00
- applies to jurisdiction
- Sweden
- postal code
- 223 50
- street address
- Paradisgatan 2, 223 50 Lund
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- API endpoint URL
- idpv3.lu.se/idp/shibboleth
- language used
- Swedish
- social media followers
- 30000
- carbon footprint
- 1190745
- ranking
- 75
- web feed URL
- www.lu.se/rss.xml
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Encyclopedic overview
Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania (Swedish: Skåne). The university was officially founded in 1666 on the location of the old studium generale next to Lund Cathedral.
Lund University has nine faculties, with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with around 46,000 students in 265 different programmes and 1,516 freestanding courses. The university has 560 partner universities in approximately 70 countries. It belongs to the League of European Research Universities as well as the global Universitas 21 network. Among those associated with the university are five Nobel Prize winners, a Fields Medal winner, prime ministers and business leaders.
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