University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) (Danish: Københavns Universitet) is the most established college and examination foundation in Denmark. Established in 1479 as a studium generale, it is the second most seasoned foundation for advanced education in Scandinavia after Uppsala University (1477). The college has 23,473 college understudies, 17,398 postgraduate understudies, 2,968 doctoral understudies and more than 9,000 workers. The college has four grounds situated in and around Copenhagen, with the base camp situated in focal Copenhagen. Most courses are taught in Danish; then again, numerous courses are likewise offered in English and a couple in German. The college has a few a large number of remote understudies, of whom about half originate from Nordic nations.

The college is an individual from the prestigious International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), alongside University of Cambridge, Yale University, The Australian National University, and UC Berkeley, amongst others. It is positioned 45th in the 2014 QS World University Rankings and thirteenth in Europe.[5][6][7][8] The college has had 8 graduated class get to be Nobel laureates[9] and has created one Turing Award beneficiary.

The University of Copenhagen was established in 1479 and is the most seasoned college in Denmark. Between the end of the Studium Generale in Lund in 1536 and the foundation of the University of Aarhus in the late 1920s, it was the main college in Denmark. The college turned into a focal point of Roman Catholic philosophical adapting, additionally had resources for the investigation of law, prescription, and reasoning.

The college was shut by the Church in 1531 to stop the spread of Protestantism, and re-set up in 1537 by King Christian III after the Lutheran Reformation and changed into a fervent Lutheran theological school. Somewhere around 1675 and 1788, the college presented the idea of degree examinations. An examination for religious philosophy was included 1675, trailed by law in 1736. By 1788, all resources required an examination before they would issue a degree.

In 1801, under the order of Admiral Horatio Nelson, the British armada shelled Copenhagen amid the Battle of Copenhagen, decimating the greater part of the college's buildings.[citation needed] By 1836, then again, the new principle building of the college was initiated in the midst of broad building that proceeded until the end of the century. The college library, the Zoological Museum, the Geological Museum, the Botanic Garden with nurseries, and the Technical College were likewise settled amid this period.

Inside of the old college library at Fiolstræde around 1920.

Somewhere around 1842 and 1850, the resources at the college were rebuilt. Beginning in 1842, the University Faculty of Medicine and the Academy of Surgeons converged to frame the Faculty of Medical Science, while in 1848 the Faculty of Law was revamped and turned into the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Political Science. In 1850, the Faculty of Mathematics and Science was isolated from the Faculty of Philosophy.

The primary female understudy was enlisted at the college in 1877. The college experienced dangerous development somewhere around 1960 and 1980. The quantity of understudies rose from around 6,000 in 1960 to around 26,000 in 1980, with a correspondingly extensive development in the quantity of workers. Structures fabricated amid this time period incorporate the new Zoological Museum, the Hans Christian Ørsted and August Krogh Institutes, the grounds focus on Amager Island, and the Panum Institute.

The Geological Museum.

The new college statute initiated in 1970 included democratization of the administration of the college. It was changed in 1973 and in this way connected to all advanced education establishments in Denmark. The democratization was later switched with the 2003 college changes. Further change in the structure of the college from 1990 to 1993 made a Bachelor's degree program required in for all intents and purposes all subjects.

Likewise in 1993, the law offices severed from the Faculty of Social Sciences to frame a different Faculty of Law. In 1994, the University of Copenhagen assigned natural concentrates, north-south relations, and biotechnology as ranges of extraordinary need by new long haul arrangement. Beginning in 1996 and proceeding to the present, the college arranged new structures, including for the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Humanities at Amager (Ørestaden), alongside a Biotechnology Center. By 1999, the understudy populace had developed to surpass 35,000, bringing about the college delegating extra teachers and other staff.

South Campus.

In 2003, the changed Danish college law uprooted workforce, staff and understudies from the college choice procedure, making a top-down control structure that has been depicted as total government, since pioneers are conceded broad forces while being designated only by more elevated amounts in the organization.[12]

In 2005, the Center for Health and Society (Center for Sundhed og Samfund – CSS) opened in focal Copenhagen, lodging the Faculty of Social Sciences and Institute of Public Health, which until then had been situated in different spots all through the city. In May 2006, the college reported further plans to leave a large portion of its old structures in the inward city of Copenhagen, a zone that has been home to the college for over 500 years. The reason for this has been to assemble the college's numerous divisions and resources on three bigger grounds keeping in mind the end goal to make a greater, more thought and current understudy environment with better showing offices, and to spare cash on rent and upkeep of the old structures. The grouping of offices on bigger grounds likewise considers more between disciplinary participation; for instance, the Departments of Political Science and Sociology are currently situated in the same offices at CSS and can pool assets all the more effectively.

In January 2007, the University of Copenhagen converged with the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University and the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Science. The two colleges are currently resources under the University of Copenhagen, and are presently known as the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

In January 2012, the Faculty og Pharmaceutical Sciences and the veterinary third of the Faculty of Life Sciences converged with the Faculty of Health Sciences framing the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences – and the other 66% of the Faculty of Life Sciences converged with the Faculty of Science.

The 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities[18] distributed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University positions the University of Copenhagen as the best college in Denmark and Scandinavia, the sixth best college in Europe, and 35th in the Top 500 World Universities positioning. The 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities' Alternative Ranking 2015 ( Excluding Award Factor ) positions the University of Copenhagen 30th in the world.[19] In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2016, the University of Copenhagen is positioned at 82th in general in the world.[20] In the 2015-2016 QS World University Rankings list, the University of Copenhagen was positioned 69th.[21] In the 2016 U.S. News and World Report's Best Global Universities Rankings list, the University of Copenhagen was positioned 61th.[22]

The college collaborates with colleges around the globe. In January 2006, the University of Copenhagen went into an organization of ten top colleges, alongside the Australian National University, ETH Zürich, National University of Singapore, Peking University, University of California Berkeley, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Tokyo and Yale University. The organization is alluded to as the International Alliance of Research Universitie