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University of Zurich

{{Short description|Public university in Switzerland, founded 1833}}

{{other uses|Zurich (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox university

| name = University of Zurich

| native_name = Universität Zürich

| latin_name = Universitas Turicensis{{Cite book |title=Record of the Jubilee Celebrations of the University of Sydney |date=1903 |publisher=William Brooks and Co. |isbn=9781112213304 |publication-place=Sydney, New South Wales |language=en-AU }}{{Cite book |last=Anderson |first=Peter John |author-link=Peter John Anderson |title=Record of the Celebration of the Quatercentenary of the University of Aberdeen: From 25th to 28th September, 1906 |date=1907 |publisher=Aberdeen University Press (University of Aberdeen) |isbn=9781363625079 |publication-place=Aberdeen, United Kingdom |language=en-GB |asin=B001PK7B5G}}{{Cite book |title=Actes du Jubilé de 1909 |date=1910 |publisher=Georg Keck & Cie |isbn=9781360078335 |publication-place=Geneva, Switzerland |language=fr-CH }}

| image = University of Zurich seal.svg

| image_size = 200px

| motto =

| established = {{start date and age|1833}}

| type = Public university

| budget = 1.578 billion Swiss francs{{cite web|title=Annual Report 2022 |url=https://www.jahresbericht.uzh.ch/en/2022/facts |publisher=University of Zurich |year=2022}}

| president = Michael Schaepman

| students = 25,732{{cite web |title=Annual Report 2018 |url=https://www.uzh.ch/en/about/portrait/annualreport.html#3-8 |publisher=University of Zurich |year=2018 |access-date=May 23, 2019 |archive-date=November 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107013503/https://www.uzh.ch/en/about/portrait/annualreport.html#3-8 |url-status=dead }}

| faculty = 3,702 (Full-time equivalent){{cite web |title=Facts and Figures 2015 |url=https://issuu.com/uzhch/docs/uzh_factsfigures_2015/ |publisher=Executive Board of the University of Zurich |year=2015 |access-date=May 23, 2019 |archive-date=October 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161028015915/https://issuu.com/uzhch/docs/uzh_factsfigures_2015/ |url-status=dead }}

| administrative_staff = 2,051 (Full-time equivalent)

| city = Zurich

| state = Canton of Zurich

| country = Switzerland

| coor = {{Coord|47|22|29|N|8|32|54|E|region:CH-ZH_type:edu|display=inline,title}}

| campus = Urban

| affiliations = LERU U21

| colours = Black, white, blue, grey and ochre[https://www.cd.uzh.ch/de/grundlagen/grundelemente/farben.html Die Hausfarben der Universität Zürich] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231193830/https://www.cd.uzh.ch/de/grundlagen/grundelemente/farben.html |date=December 31, 2019 }} – website of the University of Zurich[https://www.cd.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:00000000-1f73-28ca-ffff-ffff9377064f/UZH_CDManual_Basiselemente.pdf CD-Manual: Basiselemente] – website of the University of Zurich
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| website = {{URL|http://www.uzh.ch/en.html|uzh.ch}}

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The University of Zurich (UZH, {{langx|de|Universität Zürich}}) is a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland,{{cite web |title=University of Zurich |url=https://www.coursera.org/zurich |publisher = Coursera |access-date = May 6, 2017}} with its 28,000 enrolled students.{{cite web |url=https://www.uzh.ch/cmsssl/en/about/portrait/portrait.html |title=The University of Zurich – At a Glance |access-date=September 18, 2020 |year=2020 |publisher=University of Zurich |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331180112/https://www.uzh.ch/cmsssl/en/about/portrait/portrait.html |url-status=dead }} It was founded in 1833{{cite magazine |title=University of Zurich|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/world-ranking/institution/university-of-zurich |magazine=Times Higher Education |access-date = May 6, 2017}} from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine which go back to 1525, and a new faculty of philosophy.

Currently, the university has seven faculties: Philosophy, Human Medicine, Economic Sciences, Law, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Theology and Veterinary Medicine. The university offers the widest range of subjects and courses of any Swiss higher education institution.{{cite web|year=2021|title=Faculties of the University of Zurich|url=https://www.uzh.ch/cmsssl/en/about/faculties.html|access-date=December 2, 2021|publisher=University of Zurich|archive-date=March 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305215615/https://www.uzh.ch/cmsssl/en/about/faculties.html|url-status=dead}}

History

{{for|pre-1833 history|Carolinum, Zurich}}

The University of Zurich was founded on April 29, 1833,{{cite web

| title = Dies academicus

| publisher = University of Zurich

| date = August 26, 2009

| url = http://www.uzh.ch/about/portrait/dies_en.html

| access-date = May 6, 2017

| archive-date = August 27, 2020

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}} when the existing colleges of theology, the Carolinum founded by Huldrych Zwingli in 1525, law and medicine were merged with a new faculty of Philosophy. It was the first university in Europe to be founded by the state rather than a monarch or church.{{Cite web |author=Lorenzo Käser |url=https://www.zuerich-fluntern.ch/Dateien/kantonsspital-und-kultur.pdf |title=Illustrierte Geschichte des Züricher Cantonsspitals und der medizinischen Poliklinik |date=2019-04-11 }} Its Latin name is reminiscent of the Roman name for the precursor settlement of the city of Zurich, Turicum.

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In the university's early years, the 1839 appointment of the German theologian David Friedrich Strauss to its Chair of Theology caused a major controversy, since Strauss argued that the miracles in the Christian New Testament were mythical retellings of normal events as supernatural happenings.The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined by David Friedrich Strauss 2010 {{ISBN|1-61640-309-8}} pages 39–43 and 87–91The Making of the New Spirituality by James A. Herrick 2003 {{ISBN|0-8308-2398-0}} pages 58–65Familiar Stranger: An Introduction to Jesus of Nazareth by Michael J. McClymond (March 22, 2004) {{ISBN|0802826806}} page 82See {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140201204703/http://www.chora-strangers.org/article/mcgaughey1994 Douglas R McGaughey, "On D.F. Strauß and the 1839 Revolution in Zurich"]}} Eventually, the authorities offered Strauss a pension before he had a chance to start his duties.

The university allowed women to attend philosophy lectures from 1847. The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was added in 1901, the second-oldest such faculty in the world. In 1914, the university moved to new premises designed by the architect Karl Moser on Rämistrasse 71.{{Cite web |last1=Ganz |first1=Michael T. |last2=Stucki |first2=Heinzpeter |title=History in brief |publisher=University of Zurich |year=2008 |url=http://www.uzh.ch/about/portrait/history_en.html |access-date=January 31, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821055517/http://www.uzh.ch/about/portrait/history_en.html |archive-date=August 21, 2010}}

The university admitted a Russian woman student, Maria Kniazhnina, to audit medicine classes in 1864, but she did not complete the course. Another Russian student, Nadezhda Suslova, audited medicine classes from 1865 and was allowed to become a registered student and graduate as a doctor of medicine in 1867. The first seven women who were awarded medical degrees at the university were known as the Zurich Seven. Including Suslova, they were:{{cite book |last1=Bonner |first1=Thomas Neville |title=To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine |date=1992 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674893030 |pages=32–41}}

Campus

The university is scattered all over the city of Zurich. The main campuses are located in the city centre, Irchelpark and Oerlikon.{{Cite web|title=Campuses|url=http://www.uzh.ch/en/about/info/sites.html|access-date=2021-12-02|website=www.uzh.ch|language=en|archive-date=November 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127043827/https://www.uzh.ch/en/about/info/sites.html|url-status=dead}} Members of the university can use several libraries, including the ETH-library, and the Zurich Central Library, with over 5 million volumes.

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In 1962, the faculty of science proposed to establish the Irchelpark campus on the Strickhofareal. The first stage the construction of the university buildings was begun in 1973, and the campus was inaugurated in 1979.{{cite web|url=http://www.uzh.ch/about/portrait/history.html|title=Irchelpark|publisher=Universität Zürich|language=de|access-date=December 20, 2014|archive-date=June 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180605041826/http://www.uzh.ch/about/portrait/history.html|url-status=dead}} The construction of the second stage lasted from 1978 to 1983.{{cite web|url=https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ted/de/index/gsz/natur-_und_erlebnisraeume/park-_und_gruenanlagen/irchelpark.html|title=Irchelpark|publisher=Grün Stadt Zürich|language=de|access-date=December 20, 2014}} The campus also houses the anthropological museum Anthropologisches Museum,{{cite web|url=http://www.uzh.ch/outreach/museums/anthropologisches-museum.html|title=Anthropologisches Museum|publisher=Universität Zürich|language=de|access-date=December 20, 2014|archive-date=July 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726143235/https://www.uzh.ch/de/outreach/museums/anthropologisches-museum.html|url-status=dead}} and the cantonal Staatsarchiv Zürich.{{cite web|url=http://www.staatsarchiv.zh.ch/internet/justiz_inneres/sta/de/ueber_uns/veroeffentlichungen/_jcr_content/contentPar/downloadlist_1/downloaditems/download_stark_reduz.spooler.download.1282746601230.pdf/zh_verfassungsgeschichte.pdf|title=Kleine Zürcher Verfassungsgeschichte 1218–2000|publisher=Staatsarchiv Zürich|language=de|access-date=December 20, 2014}}

=Museums=

The Institute and Museum for the History of Medicine is part of the university.{{cite web|url=http://www.mhiz.uzh.ch/|title=UZH - Universität Zürich|website=Mhiz.uzh.ch|access-date=January 14, 2018}} The university includes 13 museums: the Anatomical Collection, the Archaeological Collection, the Botanical Museum, the Museum of Wax Moulages, the Science Exploratorium, the Museum of Veterinary History, the Zurich Herbaria, the Museum of Anthropology, the Botanical Garden, the Ethnographic Museum, the Paleontological Museum, the Veterinary Anatomy Collection and the Zoological Museum.{{Cite web|title=Museums and Collections|url=http://www.uzh.ch/en/outreach/museums.html|access-date=2021-12-02|website=www.uzh.ch|language=en|archive-date=December 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202230803/https://www.uzh.ch/en/outreach/museums.html|url-status=dead}}

Academics

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In the fields of bioscience and finance, there is a close-knit collaboration between the University of Zurich and the ETH (Federal Institute for Technology). Examples for common initiatives between the two institutions include University Medicine Zurich, the Wyss Translational Center Zurich and Life Science Zurich.{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/ETH+Bibliothek,+R%C3%A4mistrasse,+Z%C3%BCrich,+Switzerland/University+of+Zurich,+R%C3%A4mistrasse,+Z%C3%BCrich,+Switzerland/@47.3754976,8.5493221,18z/|title=Google Maps|website=Google Maps|access-date=January 14, 2018}}{{cite web|title=Partnerships|url=https://www.uzh.ch/en/explore/portrait/basics/partnerships.html|access-date=December 14, 2023|archive-date=December 14, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214181406/https://www.uzh.ch/en/explore/portrait/basics/partnerships.html|url-status=dead}}

=Rankings=

{{Infobox university rankings

| ARWU_W = 59 | ARWU_W_year = 2023 | ARWU_W_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/institution/university-of-zurich|title= Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023|access-date=14 December 2023|publisher=Shanghai Ranking Consultancy}}

| THE_W = 80 | THE_W_year = 2024 | THE_W_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/institution/university-of-zurich|title=World University Rankings 2024|date=December 14, 2023|access-date=25 February 2021}}

| QS_W = 109 | QS_W_year = 2024 | QS_W_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-zurich |title=About University of Zurich |access-date=21 August 2024}}

| USNWR_W = 60 | USNWR_W_year = 2024-2025 | USNWR_W_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/university-of-zurich-505287#rankings|title=U.S. News Education: Best Global Universities 2024-25|access-date=26 August 2024}}

|CWUR_W=60|CWUR_W_ref={{cite web|url=https://cwur.org/2024.php|access-date=14 December 2023 |title=World University Rankings 2024 | Global 2000 List | CWUR }}|CWUR_W_year=2024|Reuters_W=51|Reuters_W_ref={{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/graphics/AMERS-REUTERS%20RANKING-INNOVATIVE-UNIVERSITIES/0100B2JP1W1/ |title=Reuters Top 100 {{!}} The World’s Most Innovative Universities 2019 |access-date=29 August 2024|publisher=Reuters}}|Reuters_W_year=2019}}

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ranking{{cite web|url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/institution/university-of-zurich|title=Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2023|date=December 14, 2023}} (heavy emphasis on research output – citations, Nobel prizes etc.) Ranked 59th overall as well as 5th and 10th in the subdisclipines Ecology an Human Biological Sciences respectively.
  • QS World University Rankings

{{cite web| title =QS World University Rankings 2024| publisher =QS World University Rankings| url =https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-zurich| access-date =December 14, 2023}}

(heavy emphasis on peer review) 91st overall and 56th in Medicine globally making it the highest ranked University in Switzerland for Medicine according to QS.

  • THE World University Rankings 2024{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2024/world-ranking|title=THE World University Rankings 2024|date=December 14, 2023|access-date=December 14, 2023}} 80th overall and ranked 42nd in the subdiscipline business & economics.

The university's Department of Economics is especially strong and was ranked first in the German-speaking area by the Handelsblatt in 2017.{{cite news|url=https://www.econ.uzh.ch/en/department/rankings/handelsblatt.html|title=Handelsblatt Ranking|newspaper=Handelsblatt|access-date=September 8, 2018|archive-date=June 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610153409/https://www.econ.uzh.ch/en/department/rankings/handelsblatt.html|url-status=dead}} In 2009, the faculty of Business Administration was ranked third in the German-speaking area.{{cite news |title=Handelsblatt Ranking Betriebswirtschaftslehre 2009 |url=http://tool.handelsblatt.com/tabelle/?id=29 |newspaper=Handelsblatt |access-date=November 11, 2013 |archive-date=July 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701175205/https://tool.handelsblatt.com/tabelle/?id=29 |url-status=dead }}

=Language policy=

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Bachelor courses are taught in Swiss Standard German ("Hochdeutsch"), but use of English is increasing in many faculties. The only bachelors program taught entirely in English is the "[http://www.es.uzh.ch/en/studies/BA.html English Language and Literature]" program.{{cite web|url=http://www.degrees.uzh.ch/en/50000007/50306169/50307167#voraussetzungen|title=Studying|website=Degrees.uzh.ch|access-date=January 14, 2018}} All Master courses at the Faculty of Science are held in English. Master courses in Economics and Finance are mainly held in English, while the Master of Science in Quantitative Finance is held completely in English.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

Student life

The university's Academic Sports Association (ASVZ) offers a wide range of sports facilities to students of the university. The student body is represented through the Verband der Studierenden der Universität Zürich VSUZH which organizes events and is involved in the university administration.{{Cite web |title=VSUZH - Verband der Studierenden der Universität Zürich |url=https://www.vsuzh.ch/ |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=VSUZH |language=de}}

Notable alumni and faculty

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{{Columns-list|colwidth=30em|* Jacqueline Badran, politician and entrepreneur

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=Nobel Prize laureates=

Associated with the university are 12 Nobel Prize recipients, primarily in Physics and Chemistry.

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Year

! Field

! Laureate

1901

| Physics

| Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

1902

| Literature

| Theodor Mommsen

1913

| Chemistry

| Alfred Werner

1914

| Physics

| Max von Laue

1921

| Physics

| Albert Einstein

1933

| Physics

| Erwin Schrödinger

1936

| Chemistry

| Peter Debye

1937

| Chemistry

| Paul Karrer

1939

| Chemistry

| Lavoslav Ružička

1949

| Medicine

| Walter Rudolf Hess

1987

| Physics

| Karl Alex Müller

1996

| Medicine

| Rolf M. Zinkernagel

Associated institutions

See also

{{Portal|Switzerland}}

Notes and references

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External links

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  • [http://www.stura.uzh.ch/ Union of students' associations of the University of Zurich] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410073333/http://www.stura.uzh.ch/ |date=April 10, 2008 }}
  • [http://www.universityrankings.ch The Ranking Forum of Swiss Universities]

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