University of Zurich Universität Zürich
Latin: Universitas Turicensis
Established	1833 (1525)
Type	Public University
Rector	Prof. Dr. Hans Weder
Faculty	ca 2,700
Students	23,421
Location	Zurich, Switzerland
Campus	Urban
Website	www.uzh.ch

The University of Zurich (in German: Universität Zürich) is the largest university of Switzerland, in the city of Zürich. It was founded on April 29, 1833 with faculties of theology, law, medicine and philosophy. Currently, the University has faculties of arts, economics, law, medicine, science, theology and veterinary medicine. Image File history File links Logo of the University of Zurich. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... Year 1833 (MDCCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Events January 21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manzs mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate someone who is in charge of something. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... Location within Switzerland   Zürich[?] (German pronunciation IPA: ; usually spelled Zurich in English) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... Cities with at least a million inhabitants in 2006 An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... For the community in Florida, see University, Florida. ... For other uses of Zurich, see Zurich (disambiguation). ... is the 119th day of the year (120th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1833 (MDCCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... Theology finds its scholars pursuing the understanding of and providing reasoned discourse of religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... For other uses, see Law (disambiguation). ... For the chemical substances known as medicines, see medication. ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ... Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ... For other uses, see Law (disambiguation). ... For the chemical substances known as medicines, see medication. ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... Theology finds its scholars pursuing the understanding of and providing reasoned discourse of religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... Veterinary medicine is the application of medical, diagnostic, and therapeutic principles to companion, domestic, exotic, wildlife, and production animals. ...

History

The University of Zurich was founded in 1833 with existing colleges of theology (founded by Huldrych Zwingli in 1525), law and medicine merged together with a new faculty of Philosophy. This University was the first University in Europe to be founded by the state rather than a monarch or church. The university allowed women to listen in on philosophy lectures from 1847, and it admitted the first female doctoral student in 1866. The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was added in 1901, the oldest such faculty in the world. In 1914, The University moved to new premises on Rämistrasse 71, designed by the architect Karl Moser. Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli or Ulricus Zuinglius (January 1, 1484 – October 11, 1531) was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches. ... Karl Moser is an architect from Switzerland. ...

Faculties

Its best-performing faculties in terms of research quality are the Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science, all of which rank in the top ten of Europe's universities. The University of Zurich as a whole also ranks in the top ten of Europe and in the top fifty worldwide. Notably in the fields of bioscience and finance, there is a close-knit collaboration between the University of Zurich and the famous ETH (Federal Institute for Technology, just across the road). Eth (Ð, ð), also spelled edh or eð, is a letter used in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and present-day Icelandic, and in Faroese language which call the letter edd. ...

Admission

Prospective Students

Except for medicine, the University pursues an admission policy as follows. Having a Matura or an equivalent secondary school qualification, all qualifying students can study for a year. After this assessment year, only those passing the exams may proceed their studies. On average, about one half passes the assessment year (differing across faculties and particular program). To study medicine, even to be granted permission to enter the assessment year, exams need to be passed. Admission to the a masters degree naturally requires a bachelor. Admission to a PhD programme requires a Masters degree with honours and clear affiliation for research. Matura (Matur, Maturità, Maturität) is the word commonly used in Austria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Ukraine for the final exams young adults (aged 18 or 19) take at the end of their secondary education. ...

Languages

General language of courses is High German (Schriftdeutsch). Notably in some highly competitive and international programs, like the Master of Advanced Studies in Finance MAS Finance, all lectures are taught in English. There is an increasing use of English observed in many faculties.

Future

There has been a steady increase in the number of international professors and students in recent years. Given all faculties offer their lectures in English and the university or individual faculties pursue a more vigorous marketing strategy, one can expect a clear increase in the number and intensity of high-achieving faculties.

Some sectors also call for an increased selectivity of some programs and more efforts towards financing from the private-sector.

Nobel Prize winners

The University of Zurich has produced several Nobel Prize laureates. Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists of all time, Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founder of quantum mechanics, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics and others were affiliated with the University. “Einstein” redirects here. ... Schrödinger in 1933, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics Bust of Schrödinger, in the courtyard arcade of the main building, University of Vienna, Austria. ... For a less technical and generally accessible introduction to the topic, see Introduction to quantum mechanics. ... Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (in English: William Conrad Roentgen) (March 27, 1845 – February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, of the University of Würzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or Röntgen Rays, an achievement... Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...

Alumni

Rear courtyard of Universität Zürich

• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Physics, 1901); also worked on the faculty
• Carl Spitteler (Literature, 1919)
• Albert Einstein (Physics 1921); also worked on the faculty

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Faculty

• Theodor Mommsen (Literature, 1902)
• Alfred Werner (Chemistry 1913)
• Max von Laue (Physics 1914)
• Erwin Schrödinger (Physics 1933)
• Peter Debye (Chemistry 1936)
• Paul Karrer (Chemistry 1937)
• Lavoslav Stjepan Ružička (Chemistry 1939)
• Walter Rudolf Hess (Medicine 1949)
• Karl Alex Müller (Physics 1987)
• Rolf M. Zinkernagel (Medicine 1996)

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Famous Fellows of the University

• Rolf Pfeifer, Artificial Intelligence Lab, IFI

Rolf Pfeifer received his masters degree in physics and mathematics and his Ph. ...

Museum

• History of Medicine

See also

• Category:People associated with the University of Zurich

External links

• Official homepage
• Official homepage in English
• About the university (in German)
• About the University (in English)
• Union of students' associations of the University of Zurich

Coordinates: 47°22′29″N, 8°32′54″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...