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  native Name Göteborgs universitet
  latin Name Universitas Regia Gothoburgensis
  motto Tradita innovare innovata tradere
  established 1891
  type Public University
  staff 5,400
  rector Prof Gunnar Svedberg
  undergrad 49,000
  doctoral 2,500
  city Gothenburg
  country Sweden
  website http://wwwguse/


Gothenburg University, or ''Göteborgs universitet'', is a University in Gothenburg , Sweden . It has has about 49,000 students studying at eight faculties.


HISTORY

It was founded as ''Göteborgs högskola'' (Gothenburg University College) in 1891 and has later absorbed several other, previously independent, institutions of higher education in the city. It became a full university with the merger of the University College with the Gothenburg School of Medicine (''Medicinhögskolan i Göteborg'') in 1954. Another part of the university is the originally separate Gothenburg School Of Economics And Commercial Law , changed to School of Business Economics and Law in 2005. The Sahlgrenska University Hospital is associated with the university as a teaching hospital.
Gothenburg University is a pronounced city university, and the during the 1990´s the School of Economics and the Academy of Music, Drama and Opera have been given new facilities in the town centre. And right now (2006) the university is building a new campus for the education faculty


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