Lund University

Founded in 1666, Lund University, Sweden is one of northern Europe’s oldest, broadest and finest universities and is consistently ranked as one the world’s top 100 universities.

Lund University seeks to be a world-class university that works to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.

An education from Lund University is internationally recognised. We are consistently ranked as one of the world's top 100 universities, placing us among the world's top 0.4% universities.

College & University in Lund, Sweden

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Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is one of northern Europe's oldest, largest and most prestigious[peacock term] universities,[7][8][9] consistently ranking among the world's top 100 universities.[10][11][12] The university, located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, traces its roots back to 1425, when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund next to the Lund Cathedral (with baccalaureates education started in 1438), making it the oldest institution of higher education in Scandinavia followed by studia generalia in Uppsala in 1477 and Copenhagen in 1479. After Sweden won Scania from Denmark in the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde, the university was founded in 1666 on the location of the old studium generale next to Lund Cathedral. The studium generale had not survived the Lutheran Reformation of 1536. The university founded in 1666 was thus an entirely new institution.