Lund University

Lund University is located in Lund in southernmost Sweden, is one of Sweden's most prestigious universities and Scandinavia's largest institution for education and research, frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities. The university was founded in 1666 and is the second oldest within Sweden's present borders, but can arguably trace its roots back to 1438.

Lund University has 8 faculties, with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with a total of over 42,500 students enrolled in more than 50 different programmes and 800 separate courses. It belongs to the League of European Research Universities as well as the global Universitas 21 network.

The university traditionally centers on the Lundagård park adjacent to the Lund Cathedral, with various departments spread in different locations in town, but mostly concentrated in a belt stretching north from the park connecting to the university hospital area and continuing out to the north-eastern periphery of the town, where one finds the large campus of the Lund Institute of Technology.

Lund University is internationally known as Scandinavia's largest research university. The university has eight faculties and many research centres and specialized institutes. Approximately 42,500 students study within one of the 100 educational programs, the eighteen international master’s programmes or the 1,400 courses. Almost three hundred courses are, or can be, held in English for the benefit of our international exchange students. There are several programs allowing foreign students to study abroad at the University. Notable exchanges include United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who spent time at Lund University in the 1960s conducting research.

Here the list of the faculties of Lund University:

Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Theology

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Natural Sciences

Faculty of Social Sciences

Lund School of Economics and Management

Faculty of Engineering (Lund Institute of Technology)

Academies of Performing and Visual Arts (the Academies of Music, Art, and Theatre)

Leisure

Student Nations

The Nations in Lund are essentially large social clubs and the heart of the student life. They represent your chance to really get involved with Swedish student culture. They are open to all students and there are no entrance requirements. To become a member and to be able to get access to all the fun the Nations organise, you have to pay the Nation fee just like Swedish students do. Once you join a particular Nation it is tradition to become involved in the activities of only that Nation, but your student card will still give you access also to activities at other Nations. Take the opportunity during the introduction weeks to visit a couple of the Nations and pick the one you like the most.

Since there are no specific» student restaurants” in Lund the different student nations serve lunch and dinner at reasonable prices (30 SEK) for a limited number of guests.

The newsletter What’s Up

The International Desk publishes the newsletter What’s Up, together with LUFF (Lund University Foreign Friends). The newsletter will be sent to the e-mail address you have stated on your pre-registration form.

The Mentor programme

If you applied for a mentor in your combined pre-registration you should now have been assigned a mentor group.

The mentor group consists of 3-4 Swedish students (your mentors) and 20-25 international students. Your mentors do this voluntarily because they think it will be fun meeting people from all over the world. Your mentors are familiar with Lund and the way things work around here. They know the nations, the best places to socialise, as well as the best place to go for a workout. If they have not done so before, your mentors will contact you after your introduction weeks. Maybe you will tour the city, have dinner, go to one of the nations’ parties or something similar.

The mentorship is a give and take situation and the mentors need your input and participation as much as you need them, thus if there is something you want to do or see, you can always contact your mentors and see if the group can do it together. You can always contact your mentors for any advice, so do not miss the opportunity to learn more about being a student in Lund!

More information about leisure

Student Nations

www.kk.lu.se click on”Nationerna”

www.lu.se /o.o.i.s/269 click on ”Nationerna”

Mentor programme

www.lu.se/o.o.i.s/11535

What’s Up

www.lu.se/whatsup

Photos

Diverses photos de forums entreprise, de soirées, de l'université: