The
University of Lausanne (in
French:
Université de Lausanne) or UNIL in
Lausanne,
Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of
theology, before being made a
university in 1890. Today about 12,000 students and 2200 researchers study and work at the
university. Approximately 1500 international students attend the university, which has a wide curriculum including exchange programs with world renowned universities.
Before 2005, the University applied the French education model with some minor differences. The
academic degrees were the Demi-Licence, Licence,
DEA / DESS,
Doctorate. The University now follows the requirements of the
Bologna process.
Together with the
Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) the university forms a vast campus at the shores of
Lake Geneva.
Faculties & Schools
The University of Lausanne comprises 7
faculties:
- Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM)
- Faculty of Geosciences and Environment (GSE)
- Faculty of Law and Criminal Justice
- Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SSP)
- Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
The University of Lausanne also comprises schools and different sections:
- School of Criminal Justice (ESC)
- School of French as a Foreign Language (EFLE)
History
Palais de Rumine, one of the first building of the University of Lausanne
The Academy, forerunner of the UNIL, was founded in 1537. Its vocation at that time was to train ministers for the church. The university enjoyed a certain renown due to the fact that it was the only French language Protestant school of theology.
As the centuries passed, the number of faculties increased and diversified until, in 1890, the Academy received the name and status of a university.
From 1970, the university moved progressively from the old centre of Lausanne, around the Cathedral and Château, to its present site at Dorigny. The end of the 20th century witnessed the beginnings of an ambitious project aiming at greater co-operation and development among the French-speaking universities of Lausanne, Geneva, and Neuchâtel, together with the EPFL. In 2003 two new faculties were founded concentrating on the life and human sciences: the Faculty of biology and medicine; and the Faculty of earth science and environment.
Reputation/Rankings
The
University of Texas TOP 100 BUSINESS SCHOOL RESEARCH RANKINGS ranked the
Faculty of Business & Economics of the University of Lausanne (
HEC Lausanne) as follows:
The
Leiden Ranking of the
University of Leiden, when ranking universities by the
size-independent, field-normalized average impact of their research publications, ranked the University of Lausanne as follows:
The
Leiden Ranking of the
University of Leiden, when ranking universities by
citations-per-publication ranked the University of Lausanne as follows:
The
Times Higher Education Supplement [THES] World University Rankings ranked the University of Lausanne as follows:
The
Academic Ranking of World Universities [ARWU] ranked the University of Lausanne as follows:
4 International Colleges & Universities [4icu.org] ranked the
popularity of the website of the University of Lausanne as follows:
Alumni
- Max Huber, Swiss international lawyer and diplomat
Campus
The Campus is presently situated outside the city on the Lakeside in Dorigny adjacent to the
EPFL. The location is made up of individual buildings with a park and arboretum in between. The library also serves as eating hall and is centrally located. The view from the library across the sports fields to the
lake of Geneva and the French and
Swiss Alps. On a clear day,
Mont Blanc can be seen.
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School of Lausanne
Neoclassical school of thought in
economics founded at the University of Lausanne by two of its Professors: Léon
Walras and Vilfredo
Pareto. The "
School of Lausanne" is associated with the development of
general equilibrium theory as well as the marginalist revolution
Marginalism.
See also
