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The University of Basel (Latin: Universitas Basiliensis; German: Universität Basel) is a public research university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest universities. The university is traditionally counted among the leading institutions of higher learning in the country.

The associated Basel University Library is the largest and among the most important libraries in Switzerland. The university hosts the faculties of theology, law, medicine, humanities and social sciences, science, psychology, and business and economics, as well as numerous cross-disciplinary subjects and institutes, such as the Biozentrum for biomedical research and the Institute for European Global Studies. In 2020, the university had 13,139 students and 378 professors. International students accounted for 27% of the student body.

In its over 500-year history, the university has been home to Erasmus of Rotterdam, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Tadeusz Reichstein, Karl Jaspers, Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Barth, and Jeanne Hersch. The institution is associated with ten Nobel laureates and two presidents of the Swiss Confederation.

History

The University of Basel was founded in connection with the Council of Basel. It was during the years the catholic clergy resided in Basel, a temporary university was established between the years 1432 und 1448. In May 1432 it was authorized for Simon de Valla from Venice to lecture on canon law, in 1434 Jacques d'Attigny from France and was also permitted to lecture on canon law in Basel. d'Attigny had before been lecturing canon law at the University of Rome. In 1437 Demetrius was called to lecture Greek language. Also the function of a bedel is mentioned, but there was no mention of a dean or a university order. The same year Pope Eugene IV attempted to move the council to Ferrara, but many involved in Basel stayed and kept negotiating and in 1439 the council elected a counter pope in the figure of the Duke of Savoy Amadeus VIII, who would become known as Felix V. Felix V then established a formal "University of the Clergy" (German: Kurienuniversität), which was inaugurated in November 1440 with a mass in the Barfüsser Church. In 1448, the German King Frederick III came to an agreement with Pope Nicholas V, the successor of Eugen IV and ordered the city to remove the security of the councilors. The university was then formally closed in July 1448 and the clergy moved on to Lausanne. After they left, the former lecturers urged for a regular university to be established. The deed of foundation given in the form of a Papal bull by Pope Pius II on 12 November 1459 in Mantua and the official opening ceremony was held on 4 April 1460, the day of Saint Ambrose in the Minster of Basel. Originally the University of Basel was decreed to have four faculties—arts, medicine, theology, and jurisprudence. From 1497, the Grand Council of Basel discussed whether the university was to be closed and only in 1501, the year Basel joined the Swiss Confederation, it was decided not to close the university. The faculty of arts served until 1818 as the foundation for the other three academic subjects. In the eighteenth century as Basel became more commercial, the university, one of the centres of learning in the Renaissance, slipped into insignificance. Enrollment which had been over a thousand around 1600, dropped to sixty in 1785 with eighteen professors. The professors themselves were mostly sons of the elite.

Over the course of centuries as many scholars came to the city, Basel became an early centre of book printing and humanism. Around the same time as the university itself, the Basel University Library was founded. Today it has over three million books and writings and is the largest library in Switzerland.

Reputation and rankings

Well-respected rankings attest to the University of Basel's international academic performance:

• Times Higher Education World University Ranking (THE) (2021): 92
• CWTS Leiden Ranking (2019): 53
• Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) (2019): 87

Organisation

University administration

Since 1 January 1996, the University of Basel has been independent. The University Law of 1995 stipulates that, "The University of Basel is an institution established under public law. It has its own legal personality and right to self-government." As the entity that formally receives the Performance Mandate (Leistungsauftrag) for the university from both supporting cantons, the University Council (Universitätsrat) is the supreme decision-making body of the university. The council consists of eleven voting members and three non-voting members, including the president, the executive director, and the secretary of the council.

Beneath the University Council are the Senate (Regenz) and the President's Board. The 80-member Senate consists of the senior members of the President's Board, faculty deans, professors, lecturers and research assistants, assistants, students, and administrative and technical employees.

The President's Office is tasked with leading the overall university business. It consists of the president and her staff, a General Secretariat, an Administrative Directorate, the Communications and Marketing Office, and two respective vice-presidents for research and education.

Faculties and departments

The University of Basel currently houses seven faculties:

• Theology
• Law
• Medicine

Department of Biomedicine Archived 26 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine (a joint venture among the University of Basel, the University Hospital, and the University Children's Hospital)

• Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Department of Public Health
• Department of Clinical Research
• Department of Sport, Exercise and Health Archived 3 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine
• Humanities and Social Sciences (Phil I)
• Department of Ancient Civilizations Archived 9 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine
• Department of History Archived 9 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine
• Department of Social Sciences
• Department Arts, Media, Philosophy Archived 1 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine
• Department of Languages and Literatures Archived 1 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine
• Digital Humanities Lab
• Science (Phil II)
• Biozentrum
• Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
• Department of Physics
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Environmental Sciences
• Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Business and Economics
• Psychology

Interdisciplinary institutions

• Institute for European Global Studies
• Center for Philanthropy Studies (CEPS)
• Institute for Biomedical Ethics (IBMB) Archived 3 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine
• Institute of Education

Associated institutes

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)[1]

Notable alumni and faculty

The university is counted among the country's leading institutions of higher learning and has a large number of politicians, scientists and thinkers as professors and alumni from around the world:

• Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950), Swiss biochemist and physiologist
• Bonifacius Amerbach (1495–1562) Swiss jurist
• Johann Konrad Ammann (1669–1724, Swiss physicist and educator of deaf children)
• Werner Arber (1929–), Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1978
• Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815–1887), Swiss antiquarian and jurist
• Karl Barth (1886–1968), Swiss Protestant theologian
• Caspar Bauhin (1560–1624), Swiss botanist
• Johann Bauhin (1541–1613), Swiss botanist
• Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782), Swiss mathematician and physicist
• Jacob Bernoulli (1655–1705), prominent Swiss mathematician, after whom Bernoulli numbers are named
• Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748), Swiss mathematician
• Johann Georg Birnstiel (1858–1927), Swiss writer and clergyman
• James Montgomery Boice (1938–2000), American theologian and pastor
• Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), Swiss historian

Student life

The university hosts several formal institutions that are intended to serve the needs of its students. The Student Advice Center provides advice on academic degree programs and career opportunities. The Student Services provides information on applications, grants, mobility, exchanges, and disability services.

Student organisations

There are also a variety of organisations that cater to international students, such as local chapters of Toastmasters and AIESEC, and associations that perform community services (Beraber, for instance, provides remedial lessons to immigrant youth). There is a foreign affairs association (Foraus), a Model United Nations team, and various choirs and orchestras. There are also various religious groups.A number of other student groups exist out of formal venues. The most recognisable are the "Studentenverbindungen," traditional student associations dating from the 19th century that organise social events, share common uniforms, and often focus on particular hobbies, such as sword fighting. Such associations include the Akademische Turnerschaft Alemannia zu Basel, AKW Raurica, Helvetia Basel, Jurassia Basiliensis, Schwizerhüsli, A.V. Froburger, and Zofingia. Membership in many is restricted to men, though A.V. Froburger also accepts women.

University sports

University Sports provides a gym, fitness classes, and sport and dance camps to students and employees of the university.

Student union

The Studentische Körperschaft der Universität Basel (skuba) speaks on behalf of the students and represents their needs and interests. It acts as an official student representative and has no political or religious affiliations.

Alumni association

The university has a general alumni association, AlumniBasel, as well as specific alumni associations for the Europainstitut, Medicine, Law, Business and Economics, Dentistry, and Nursing.

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