Lund University or Lunds universitet is a university founded in 1666, in Lund, Sweden. The university has over 34,000 people studying in 50 different programmes and 800 separate courses.
Although there were anterior academic institutions, a
studium generale, the mediaeval
Latin language term for a university, was established in
1483 within the Franciscan friary, and prior to this in 1085, a school for the training of priests was set up. The university was established in 1666, as the fourth one within the
Swedish Realm. Today, it counts as its second, since the
Academy of Dorpat (
1632) and the
Academy of Åbo (
1640), are located in
Estonia and
Finland.
Uppsala University was the first to be established in
1477.
There are also departments located in Malmö and Helsingborg.
See also: Royal Swedish Physiographic Society in Lund, List of universities in Sweden