University of Lausanne (UNIL)
The University of Lausanne (UNIL) is a publicly funded, research-focused university on the shores of Lake Geneva, in the heart of French-speaking Switzerland. It is currently home to approximately 17,000 students and 3,000 academic staff.
Disciplines
UNIL offers a wide range of study programmes in fields as varied as the Social Sciences, Arts, Humanities, Environmental Studies, Earth Sciences, Business, Religious Studies, Life Sciences and Medicine.
Programmes
It provides Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes taught in French, alongside nine Master’s programmes delivered in English, in Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies, Business, Economics and Life Sciences. Doctoral programmes are available for researchers who want to pursue their field of study in more detail, along with a range of continuing education courses.
Focus on research
Around 3,000 researchers, including more than 570 professors, work on projects daily with their colleagues in Lausanne and all over the world. UNIL has more than 190 research teams working in fields as diverse as Genomics, Aesthetics of Cinema, Environmental Law and Forensic Science. UNIL has recently launched a number of interdisciplinary research centres on topics of national and international significance, to actively foster a cross-disciplinary approach to research.
International atmosphere
One fifth of the student population and almost half the teaching staff have come from abroad to study and work at UNIL. And if the diversity created by more than 120 nationalities on campus is not enough, everyone can take advantage of exchange agreements with more than 360 partners around the world.
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