University of Basel Quick facts
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| University world Ranking - Times 200 (UK) | = 114 |
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| University world Ranking - Jiaotong 500 (China) | 82 |
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| University world Ranking - Newsweek 100 (USA) | 44 |
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| European (Jiaotong) ranking of | 25 |
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| Established | 1460 |
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University of Basel Information
Established well over 500 years ago the University of Basel is the oldest university in Switzerland. Some of the strong points of the University are its research into Tropical medicine, Earth Sciences, Slavistics, and Astronomy.
There are seven main faculties at the university; these are as follows:
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Theology
Faculty of Psychology
Faculty of Business and Economy
Research in the biology disciplines occurs at the biozentrum; a department of the faculty of natural sciences. This department has 30 research group consisting of 430 people. The libraries at the university of Basel contain over three and a half million volumes.
University of Basel Address
University of Basel
(Universität Basel)
Petersplatz 1
4003 Basel
Switzerland