Göteborgs universitet

About Göteborgs universitet

University of Gothenburg is a Swedish state university with eight faculties, 24,000 full-time students and 5,200 employees. Within the university, there are arts, social sciences, and natural sciences, humanities, educational sciences, teacher education, IT, School of Business, Economics and Law, and Sahlgrenska Academy with medicine, nursing sciences, and odontology. Undergraduate education takes place close to research, and students often meet internationally recognized researchers. In 2000, the university's professor Arvid Carlsson received the Nobel Prize in Medicine. University of Gothenburg is EMAS registered and ISO 14001 certified. The university is ranked 185th among the world's 500 best universities (Times Higher Education ranking October 2009).