The venerable Uppsala University was the first to be established in Sweden and all of Scandinavia, having been established in 1477. Uppsala, which is currently regarded among the top research institutions in the world, has nine faculties and more than 45,000 students, 12% of whom are from abroad. It has solid strategic relationships to other international universities and organises exchange programmes with almost 500 universities throughout the world. A multi-campus university, Uppsala has campuses on the island of Gotland, a popular vacation spot for Swedes with kilometres of immaculate beaches, as well as on one of Europe’s largest life sciences campuses, the Biomedical Centre, which is housed in an ancient military installation. The university’s lengthy history has produced many notable academics, including Carl Linnaeus, an Uppsala professor in the 18th century who developed the classification system for nature that is still used today, and Anders Celsius, an astronomy professor who designed the Celsius temperature scale. The university boasts a total of eight Nobel Prize winners, and among its alumni is the IT entrepreneur Niklas Zennström, best known for establishing Skype. Uppsala is renowned for having special collections of important cultural, artistic, and scientific works. Artifacts from the Viking era are housed in its numerous museums, which include the Museum of Evolution and the Museum Gustavianum, which are both located in the university’s oldest building. The university’s botanical gardens, which retain a genuine 18th-century setting, are the oldest in the nation, and its library is the biggest in all of Sweden. The fourth-largest city in Sweden and a significant cultural hub that combines tradition and contemporary is Uppsala.
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