Lund University, with campuses in Lund, Malmo and Helsingborg, is the
largest unit for research and higher education in Sweden. The University
has about 42,000 students in total, with 8,000 studying at graduate
level and 3,000 as research students. Over 6,000 students study online
via the Lund net university. Lund has about 6,500 employees and the
financial turnover for 2005 for the university is €544 million of which
one third is used for undergraduate education and two thirds for
research and training. Students can choose from among some 100
educational programmes and over 1000 separate courses. Lund University
offers 21 international masters programmes taught in English. Two thirds
of the employees are teachers and researchers, while the rest are
technical and administrative personnel.
The University is divided into eight faculties: Technology, Science,
Law, Social Sciences, Economics and Management, Medicine, Arts and
Theology, and Performing Arts. Since its foundation in 1666, the
University has developed into a modern, international centre for
research and higher education. The University co-operates with a great
number of universities and research institutes all over the world.
Within Sweden, the University cooperates widely with trade and industry
as well as with governmental and other organisations.
There are also various centres that cut across faculty and departmental
boundaries. These include the International Institute for Industrial
Environmental Economics, the Max-Laboratory, the Food Centre, the Centre
for European Studies, the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies
and the Lund Strategic Research Centre for Stem Cell Biology and Cell
Therapy. The majority of these are inter-disciplinary, with scholars
from different subjects tackling a joint problem area on the basis of
their respective specialized knowledge. The flexible form of
organisation in these centres makes it possible to mobilize
multi-disciplinary competence quickly for a particular research field.
The idea of establishing such centres is to initiate, promote, and
co-ordinate research and education in a certain area.
The university participates in extensive international exchange and
collaboration programmes in undergraduate education, research and
postgraduate studies together with a large number of universities and
organisations around the world. The number of formal student exchange
agreements with foreign universities alone amounts to about 600. Each
year about 1,600 international students in exchange programs study at
Lund University, and 800 Lund students study as exchange students at
foreign universities.
The university is characterised by a democratic viewpoint, critical
thinking, care for the global environment, and ethnic and social
diversity. Innovative thinking combined with a humanistic perspective
and a sense of humour are other values that Lund University represents.
The Universitas 21 Contact Manager at Lund University is
Dr Marianne Granfelt.
For direct enquiries on matters of Universitas 21 projects, student mobility initiatives and other liaison please contact Ms Cecilia Gagné, U21 Liaison Officer, Planning Division on tel + 46 46 222 3032 or fax +46 46 222 4040.