Umeå University or Umeå universitet is a state A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. A university provides both tertiary and quaternary education. University is derived from the Latin universitas, meaning corporation since the first medieval European universities were often groups of scholars-for-hire. Contents // 1 History 2 Selective... university in Umeå, The Kingdom of Sweden ( Swedish: Konungariket Sverige  listen?) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak Strait and the Kattegat Strait on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia on... Sweden. There is also a separate Umeå Institute of Technology at the university.

The university was founded in 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). Contents // 1 Events 1.1 January-February 1.2 March 1.3 April 1.4 May-June 1.5 July 1.6 August 1.7 September 1.8 October 1.9 November 1.10... 1965 and during the seventies it became known as the "red university" due to a large number of student strikes and a large share of left-wing politically active students. Since then conditions have normalised and Umeå University now has about 26,000 students, including master and PhD. candidates. There are a little less than 4000 employees, including 256 professors.

Internationally, the university is known for research relating to the genome of the populus tree (Life sciences), contributions to the Gleason problem and In mathematics, a function space is a set of functions of a given kind from a set X to a set Y. It is called a space because in most applications, it is a topological space or/and a vector space. Function spaces appear in various areas of mathematics: in... function spaces on A fractal is a geometric object which can be divided into parts, each of which is similar to the original object. Fractals are said to possess infinite detail, and are generally self-similar and independent of scale. In many cases a fractal can be generated by a repeating pattern, typically... fractals (mathematics) and its school of industrial design which gives degree programs in English open to students from all of the world. It is also the biggest provider of distance education courses in the Nordic countries.

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Umeå University Campus. Photo by Yogesh Bhole http://byoge.tripod.com

See also: This is a list of universities and academic institutions in Sweden. The Swedish educational system, concerning higher education, is divided between general and professional academic institutions, which respectively award general academic degrees or professional degrees. Contents // 1 General Academic Institutions 1.1 Universities (Universitet) 1.2 University Colleges (Högskolor... List of universities in Sweden

External links

• Umeå University (http://www.umu.se/) - Official site
• Umeå Institute of Design (http://www.dh.umu.se/) - Official site