Edinburgh University is a state university in the capital of Scotland, the city of Edinburgh . The sixth oldest in Britain , opened in 1583. He owns many buildings in the old part of the city. Structurally consists of three colleges , including 20 schools. Member of the Russell Group and the League of European Research Universities [1] [2] .
| University of Edinburgh | |
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| University of Edinburgh / Universitas Academica Edinensis | |
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| Year of foundation | 1583 |
| Location | Edinburgh |
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Content
- 1 History
- 2 Performance Indicators
- 2.1 Ratings
- 3 Persons
- 4 Library
- 5 notes
- 6 References
History
The University of Scotland was led by , a graduate of St. Andrews . [3] The charter for the establishment of the university was signed by King James VI on April 14, 1582. It is the first university in the country to open without a papal bull.
The heyday of the university fell on the Age of Enlightenment , when, due to the large number of outstanding humanitarians, Edinburgh was called northern Athens. The faculty of law was founded in 1707, the faculty of arts in 1708, and the medical faculty in 1726.
From 1953 to 2010, the chancellor of the university was Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , who was replaced in 2011 by his daughter Anna.
In 1985, in accordance with the will of the famous British writer Arthur Köstler , the was opened at the faculty of psychology [4] [5] [6] .
In 2002, in the course of the restructuring, nine of the university's faculties were transformed into three colleges, and 22 departments into schools. In 2011, the university merged with Edinburgh College of Art.
Performance Indicators
- In terms of applications in the UK, the university is in second place, as each year it receives approximately 60,000 applications for admission. [7]
- The university receives over £ 200 million in research revenue. He spends over £ 26 million on prizes, research, college students and scholarships. It has the third budget in the country (after Cambridge and Oxford ), amounting to approximately 317 million pounds. [8]
Ratings
- The university takes 17th place in the world ranking according to QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) , and training in such fields as art and humanities takes 11th place in the Times Higher Education 2012-2013 rating.
- According to QS ratings 2016-2017 , the University of Edinburgh ranks 19th in the world. [9] According to the QS rating of 2018, the university ranks 23rd in the world. [10]
- In the American ranking of the best global universities, Edinburgh University is ranked sixth in quality in Europe [11] . The Seventh Best University of Europe in Times Higher Education. [12]
- In terms of demand for graduates (Global Employability University ranking) in 2017, he took 78th place among the universities of the world. [13]
Persons
- Famous graduates
Edinburgh University graduated from 9 heads of state (including 3 British prime ministers) and 23 Nobel laureates [14] . Among the most famous graduates are naturalist Charles Darwin , physicist James Clerk Maxwell , philosopher David Hume , mathematician Thomas Bayes , prime minister Gordon Brown , surgeon and pioneer of sterilization Joseph Lister , inventor Alexander Bell , as well as many well-known authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle , Robert Louis Stevenson , J.M. Barry and Walter Scott .
- Artists
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) - famous writer , author of detective novels about Sherlock Holmes
- Henry Drummond (1851-1897) - writer, naturalist theologian
- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) - world famous writer
- Robert Lewis Stevenson (1850–1894) - writer and poet , author of world famous adventure novels and short stories
- David Hume (1711-1776) - philosopher , one of the greatest figures of the Scottish Enlightenment
- Thomas Erd is a Scottish poet.
- Sir James Matthew Barry is a Scottish playwright, author of Peter Pan .
- Alexander McCall Smith (b. 1948) - writer.
- Ian Rankin (b. 1960) - writer.
- Scientists
- Alexander Bell (1847-1922) - inventor, founder of telephony
- Hilda Berend (1917-2000) - English economist
- Robert Brown (1773-1858) - nerd , pioneer of the " Brownian movement "
- David Brewster (1781-1868) - physicist , inventor of a kaleidoscope
- Archibald Geeky (1835-1924) - famous geologist
- Sir Alexander Gray (1882-1968) - Scottish economist, poet and translator.
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) - naturalist and traveler, creator of the evolutionary theory of the origin and development of living organisms
- George Kelly (1905-1966) - psychologist
- Joseph Lister , 1st Baron Lister (1827-1912) - surgeon and scientist , creator of surgical antiseptics
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) - physicist, creator of classical electrodynamics
- Peter Dennis Mitchell (1920-1992) - English biochemist, Nobel laureate in chemistry (1978).
- Richard Owen (1804–1892) - Zoologist and Paleontologist
- William Praout (1785-1850) - chemist , physician, and religious philosopher
- Frederick William Robertson (1816-1853) - English theologian.
- Robert Stephenson (1803-1859) - engineer , builder of steam locomotives and bridges , son of the famous George Stephenson
- Igor Evgenievich Tamm (1895-1971) - Russian physicist, Nobel laureate in physics
- Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866) - doctor, pathologist.
- William Sharpei (1802-1880) - anatomist, physiologist and teacher.
- Politicians
- Lord John Russell (1792-1878) - Prime Minister of Great Britain .
- Famous teachers
- Sir Adam Smith - Economist, Ethical Philosopher
- Adam, Alexander - archaeologist, rector of the university
- Simpson, James Young - Professor of Obstetrics
- Sir Charles Wyville Thomson - Scottish Oceanographer
Library
At the same time as the university, a library emerged that has a very large collection with more than 2.5 million volumes. [15] In September 2017, the university celebrated the 50th anniversary of the main library building on George Square [16] .
Notes
- ↑ Neuroimaging for Research, M.Sc. - Online by The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom - MastersPortal.eu Neopr . www.mastersportal.eu. Date of treatment January 22, 2018.
- ↑ Student Subsidies & 124; The Aristotelian Society . www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk. Date of treatment January 22, 2018.
- ↑ University of Edinburgh (Inaccessible link - history ) . www.bestuniversity0123.tk. Date of treatment January 22, 2018.
- ↑ Caroline Watt. 20 years at the Koestler Parapsychology Unit // The Psychologist. - 2006. - Vol. 19, No. 7 . - P. 424-427.
- ↑ Doctoral Program in Parapsychology (unavailable link) . The University of Edinburgh. Date of treatment November 15, 2015. Archived October 24, 2015.
- ↑ Koestler Parapsychology Unit . The University of Edinburgh.
- ↑ Apaelo. Reinventing what's not perfect. . Apaelo. Date of treatment January 22, 2018.
- ↑ University of Edinburgh . Times Higher Education (THE). Date of treatment January 22, 2018.
- ↑ QS World University Rankings 2016 . Top Universities (August 25, 2016). Date of treatment January 22, 2018.
- ↑ QS World University Rankings 2018 . Top Universities (June 5, 2017). Date of treatment January 22, 2018.
- ↑ www.usnews.com .
- ↑ Best universities in Europe . Times Higher Education (THE) (September 14, 2017). Date of treatment January 22, 2018.
- ↑ Best universities for graduate jobs: Global University Employability Ranking 2017 . Times Higher Education (THE) (November 16, 2017). Date of treatment January 22, 2018.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100106093216/http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/edinburgh/alumni
- ↑ University of Edinburgh Library. Britain in Print . www.britaininprint.net. Date of treatment January 22, 2018.
- ↑ Library 50 . The University of Edinburgh . Date of treatment January 22, 2018.