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Umeå is a university town and centre of education, technical and medical research in northern Sweden. The two universities located in the city, Umeå University and one of the 3 main branches of SLU, host around 40,000 enrolled students, [ 8][ 9] which corresponds to around 30% of the total population. [ b] CRISPR gene editing was developed by ...
The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders. As of 2015, Umeå University has over 36,000 registered students (approximately 16,000 full-time students), including those at the postgraduate and doctoral level. It has more than 4,000 employees, half of which are teachers/researchers, including 310 ...
The municipality is an administrative entity defined by geographical borders, consisting of Umeå and a large area around it. The present municipality consists of many former local government units joined together in a series of municipal reforms carried out between 1952 and 1974. A 65-member municipal assembly ( kommunfullmäktige) is elected ...
Umeå Institute of Technology. The Umeå Institute of Technology or Tekniska högskolan i Umeå is part of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Umeå University. The Institute offers a wide range of study programmes, some of them not to be found in any other part of Sweden. Research in engineering is gradually being expanded.
Umeå Town Hall ( Swedish: Umeå rådhus) was built after the fire in 1888 that burnt the city to the ground. It was erected on the site where the previous town hall (built in the 17th century) had been located and was completed in 1890. [1] The architect was Fredrik Olaus Lindström from Stockholm. In the new urban area development plan ...
The Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, USBE, or Handelshögskolan vid Umeå Universitet, is the business school of Umeå University in the north of Sweden, founded in 1989 "to strengthen education in research and business while contributing to the community". [1] About 2000 students currently study at USBE.
Umeå School of Architecture (abbreviated UMA) was founded in 2009 as the fourth academic school in Sweden to provide a professional degree in architecture. It is part of Umeå University. [2] The five-year architectural programme started in the fall of 2009. Master's degree programs started in the autumn of 2010.
The Umeå University School of Restaurant and Culinary Arts (Restauranghögskolan i Umeå) is part of the Umeå University . Studies in culinary arts at Umeå University started in 1996. In 2002 the Umeå University's School of Restaurant and Culinary Arts was inaugurated. Courses are given for a bachelor's degree in creative cooking or ...