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The University of Tartu
f The only Baltic university among the top 3% universities of the world (Times Higher Educa-tion World University Ranking 2011−2012)
f World class science – UT belongs to the 1% of the most-cited universities and research institu-tions in 9 research areas (Thomson Reuters Web of Science 2011)
f Established in 1632, UT is one of the oldest universities in Northern and Eastern Europe
f A vital student body – four centuries of student traditions
f 9 faculties, 4 colleges, nearly 18,000 students, over 850 exchange students
f 70 bachelor’s, 80 master’s and 35 doctoral degree programs
f 3,600 employees, 1,700 of them are academic staff
f Nearly 60 partner universities in more than 20 countries
Studies
The keywords of studying at UT are: research driven approach, quality, international co-operation. The high standards of the bachelor’s, master’s and PhD programs are proven by the graduates’ high competitiveness – both internationally and within the country.
One of the most renowned international chart of universities, Times Higher Education World University Rankings singles UT out as the only Baltic University among top 3% universities of the world in 2011−2012
The university has nine faculties and four colleges with 18,000 students – a quarter of the whole Estonian stu-dent population.
One in four persons starting studies in University of Tartu has already recieved a medallion for excel-lence when graduating high school or achieved top results from national subject contests
The higher education offered by the University of Tartu is of inter-national nature. Degree programs include lectures in foreign languages, with participations by lectors and scientists from abroad, creating an international study environment for local students as well.
Over 850 exchange students from more than 55 countries study in the university
According to the European exchange student ESN Survey of study experiences and lifestyles of foreing students, Tartu (and more generally, Estonia) had the greatest sat-isfaction with the life environ-ment and supporting services offered in Europe.
The student body of UT is var-ied. Over 25% of the students study in the open university and more than half of them are 30 years old or older.
There are more than 30,000 students participating in the lifelong learning programmes each year. The UT’s Children university and Senior Study Programmes are improving it in many locations of Estonia
The oldest participant of the popular Senior Study Program was 97 years old
Research
The University of Tartu is Estonia’s leading research and development center. 60% of all doctoral dissertations in Estonia are defended in UT (2011 was a record year with 152 PhDs). More than half of Estonian research publications are authored by the UT scientists.
According to the Thomson Reuters Web of Science, in recent years UT has belonged among the top 1% of the world’s most-cited universities and research institutions in the fields of:
Clinical Medicine Chemistry Environmental Science and Ecology Plant and Animal Science Geosciences Social Sciences (general) Biology and Biochemistry Engineering Molecular Biology and Genetics
The university is participating as a coordinator or a partner in more than a hundred international re-search and development projects. It is the leader or a partner in 10 out of 12 centres of excellence.
The centres of excellence are closely related to doctoral studies. The University of Tartu participates in eleven of the 13 Estonian graduate schools.
As a popularizer of forward-looking thought and a developer of innovation, the university builds new technologies in co-operation with enterprises and sup-ports creating and nurturing startup companies.
The UT’s science news portal Novaator has over 10,000 visitors each week
International Co-operation
The studies and research in UT are international. The greatest importance is held on develo-ping contacts and improving collaboration with reputable universities around the world. UTs foreign partners range from the Baltic Sea area to North America, Far East and Australia. These partnerships include activities from student exchange programmes to joint research projects.
UT has around 60 partner universities in more than 20 countries
To encourage student migration and expand exchan-ge possibilities, the university has signed almost 700 contracts on Erasmus student and teacher exchange programmes. In addition, the University of Tartu is actively participating in collaborative networks of many international univer-sities, such as the Coimbra Group that unites respected European research universities and the Utrecht Network, focused on improving international studies.
UNIVERSITIES
UNIVERSITIES
The university is one of the founding members of the European Univer-sity Association (EUA) that unites European universities and dean’s boards, and also a founding member of the Baltic Sea Region Universities Network (BSRUN) – the collaborative network of the universities of Baltic Sea.
Altogether, there are 10 interna-tional study programmes in UT
The distinguished list of guests reflects UT’s good international reputation, as well – in recent years
the university has hosted public lectures by Umberto Eco, Nobel prize winners Tim Hunt and Edmond H. Fischer, Robert Gallo (one of the discoverers of HI-virus), world famous politologist Ronald Inglehart and many other reputed scientists and government representatives.
Organization
The University of Tartu is governed by the Council of 11 members and the Senate of 22 members. The Council is the highest decision-making body of the University, responsible for the economy and long-term develop-ment. Senate is the main academic board of the University, responsible for academic, research and develop-ment activities and assuring its high quality.
6% of the academic staff are foreigners, from 34 different countries
The UT has almost 3,600 of staff, with more than 1,700 of them academic staff.
UT has nine faculties:
Faculty of Theology
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Philosophy
Faculty of Exercise and Sport Sciences
Faculty of Science and Technology
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Faculty of Social Sciences and Education
The university has also four colleges that are important regional centers for studies, research and creativity:
Viljandi Culture Academy, centered on joining together folk culture with modern culture and enterpreneurship.
Narva kolledž, with its studying and development work centered on the questions of multi-cultured and multi-languaged society and education.
Pärnu College, with the focus on services and entrepreneurship, specializing mostly on professions related to the social spheres and tourism.
Euro College, centered on the studies of the European Union and Russia, located in Tartu.
Traditions
Student life at the University of Tartu is based on four centuries of student traditions. The whole town is taken by the student events numbering several each year, culminating with the town-wide Student Spring Days and Autumn Days. Celebrat-ing the Walpurgis Night before May 1st is one of the most big-time student parties and includes a great procession of academic student organizations.
When it’s warm outside, the hot spot of student life moves to the park of Piro-gov, located behind the city hall of Tartu. Old student traditions drive undergrad-uates there to have a picnic on the lawn and drink beer.
Each autumn, new students are introduced the town and the univer-sity during the freshmen week. The anniversary of the national university at December 1st finds students and lecturers together in a grand succes-sion. Bearing torches, they ascent Toomemägi with a brass band, forming a flowing torrent of fire in the town dark with twilight. The night concludes with a festive anniversary ball.
History
The University of Tartu is one of the oldest universities in Northern Europe as it was established by the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf in 1632.
The Great Northern War forced the university to stop its activities but it was reopened in 1802 during the reign of the Russian czar Alexandr the 1st. The University of Tartu was the only German-language university in the Russian Empire; so Tartu started to function as a bridge between German and Russian cultures.
The worlds’ distinguished scholars of nature and society were working and studying over here. The university was temporarily closed down again during the World War I, only to be reopened in the December 1st 1919 as the first Estonian-language university in the world – the Estonian national university.
The University of Tartu is proud of world famous scien-tists who have studied, lectured and worked here. A few names on the Wall of Fame include:
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793–1864) was professor of Astronomy at UT and Director of the Observatory. He was the forst as-tronomer to calculate the distance of a star from the Earth and the initiator of the famous Struve Geodetic Arc, which now has a place on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876) was the founding father of Embryology and the discoverer of mammalian ovum. He graduated from UT and worked as a professor in Könings-berg.
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932) won the Nobel Prize in Chem-istry in 1909, and is known as one of the founders of Physical Chemistry. He studied at UT and defended his Master’s and PhD thesis here.
Juri Lotman (1922–1993) was a semiotician, the founder of the world famous Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, widely known for its Sign Systems Studies series, the world’s oldest periodical publication on se-miotics. Lotman’s printed works are widely cited, their number exceeds 800 titles.
Tartu
Tartu is the city of youth, with every fifth person of the population of 100,000 being a student. In addition to an environment for studying and research that, while mod-ern, still has a unique flavour of history, students can find exciting ways to spend the pastime.
The UT’s choirs have been widely praised both at home and abroad. Since 2010 the university again has its own symphony orchestra, as well
In the UT Academic Sports Club, anyone interested can keep the mind and body balanced as the conditions for working out are top-notch. One can visit the university’s museums, art gallery and botanical garden which is one of the oldest in the world (established in 1803) and a feast for the eye in all seasons.
The Tartu University Library is the biggest research library in Estonia, where one can find over 3.7 million items
Tartu is famous for its bohe-mian and student-friendly atmosphere. The city center area is WiFi covered; there are many sculptures and nice places to sit down. The close-ness of a river; the abundance of parks; distinctive eateries and taverns – there’s enough entertainment for both resi-dents and visitors. Welcome!
FACULTY OF THEOLOGY Phone: +372 737 5300
E-mail [email protected] www.us.ut.ee
FACULTY OF LAW Phone: +372 737 5390
E-mail [email protected] www.oi.ut.ee
FACULTY OF MEDICINE Phone: +372 737 5326
E-mail [email protected] www.med.ut.ee
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY Phone: +372 737 5341
E-mail [email protected] www.fl.ut.ee
FACULTY OF EXERCISE AND SPORT SCIENCES
Phone: +372 737 5360 E-mail [email protected]
www.kk.ut.ee
FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Phone: +372 737 5820 E-mail [email protected]
www.lote.ut.ee
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINIS-
TRATION Phone: +372 737 6310
E-mail [email protected] www.mtk.ut.ee
FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Phone: +372 737 5860 E-mail [email protected]
www.math.ut.ee
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCI-ENCES AND EDUCATION
Phone: +372 737 5957 E-mail [email protected]
www.sh.ut.ee
EUROPEAN COLLEGE Phone: +372 737 5645 E-mail [email protected]
www.ec.ut.ee
NARVA COLLEGE Phone: +372 356 0608
E-mail [email protected] www.narva.ut.ee
PÄRNU COLLEGE Phone: +372 445 0520 E-mail [email protected]
www.pc.ut.ee
THE VILJANDI CULTURE ACADEMY Phone: +372 435 5232 E-mail [email protected] www.kultuur.edu.ee
BOTANICAL GARDEN Phone: +372 737 6218 E-mail [email protected] www.ut.ee/botaed
LIBRARY Phone: +372 737 5702 E-mail [email protected]
www.utlib.ee
THE GIFTED AND TALENTED DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
Phone: +372 737 5581 E-mail [email protected] www.teaduskool.ut.ee
ESTONIAN GENOME CENTER Phone: +372 744 0220 www.geenivaramu.ee
STUDENT COUNCIL Phone :737 5400
E-mail [email protected] www.tyye.ee
UT MUSEUMS
History Museum Phone: +372 737 5674
E-mail [email protected] www.ajaloomuuseum.ut.ee
Old Observatory Phone: +372 737 6932
E-mail [email protected] www.obs.ee
Art Museum Phone: +372 737 5384
E-mail [email protected] www.ut.ee/artmuseum
Natural History Museum Phone: +372 737 6235
E-mail [email protected] www.natmuseum.ut.ee
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2. UT Student Council
3. Babel (Institute of Germanic,
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4. Domus Dorpatensis
5. Philosophicum (Jakobi 2)
6. University Book Shop
7. UT Lifelong Learning Centre
8. Faculty of Exercise and Sports Sciences
9. UT Botanical Garden
10. Dome Church. UT History Museum
11. Old Anatomical Theatre
12. Faculty of Social Sciences and Education
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13. Old Observatory
14. UT Library
15. UT Dormitory (Tiigi 14)
16. Faculty of Science and Technology
(Vanemuise 46). UT Natural History Museum
17. UT Dormitory (Pepleri 14)
18. Physics Building (Tähe 4)
19. UT Estonian Genome Centre (Riia 23b)
20. UT Sports Hall
21. Oeconomicum
22. UT Dormitory (Narva mnt 27)
23. UT Dormitory (Narva mnt 25)
24. UT Dormitory (Raatuse 22)
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Ülikooli 18 50090 TARTU
Information: +372 737 5100
Fax: +372 737 5440 E-mail: [email protected]
www.ut.ee
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